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We had a great event today.

There were a total of 14 participants besides Niels Liisberg and myself. Everything worked as planed - and we showed them the way from a traditional AS/400 program to a service-oriented web application on an iPad.

Participants saw examples of our many different iPad solutions under the framework, PadForm® - and how easy we could create new web applications in IceBreak®.

At our booth on the Common Denmark meeting I talked to a young .net programmer (33 years) that was keen on using IBM i™ instead of Windows - and RPG instead of C#. I had a long conversation with him about the possibilities with IceBreak and IceCap.

He told me that IceBreak was exactly what he had been searching for. With IceBreak he could reuse his experience from .net to create native RPG web applications on IBM i™. He also told me that he had given up hope - and were thinking about going back to Windows platform. 

Attend our presentation in Helsingborg, Sweden on the 30 of November 2011 and learn how smooth IBM i™(AS/400) applications can operate on an iPad.

Please visit our booth and attend our presentation at the Data3 conference in Stockholm, Sweden the 18^th to 20^th of September 2011.

We will demonstrate that IBM i™ can handle the newest web technologies, and show you how to integrate IBM i™ with Smartphone and Tablet computers. You will see different solutions and learn how easy it is to create the programs on IBM i™.

In this webcast I will demonstrate how easy it is to create a modern web 2.0 application that can replace the frequently used command WRKSPLF in the 5250 environment.

My webcast also shows how easy it is to integrate to other third party tools.

The system i / IBMi / AS/400  is quite different in basic architecture compared to windows, unix or mac. Programs are not placed in the hierarchical file system where "normal" stream files exists - like on windows, unix or mac. Programs or rather program objects are stored in libraries. So you can not directly run a program from the IFS - and this is btw. one of the security features of IBMi platform.

So basically a hive is just a virtual path in IceBreak.

In my previous blog on CLP as a web language I did show you a simple app. Now let just step it up one notch adding a form to the webpage.

I have just finished a session where I got this question: Can we use CL or CLP as a language to communicate with the web?

The answer is yes - IceBreak support a few but powerful commands you can put into your CLP code and then just call that program from your browser. Look at the following:

Owners of a IBMi / i5 / iSeries / AS/400 have very few choices when they want to move legacy apps to the web: It all comes down to CGI in some flawier, or to rewrite into a new language like PHP or java or maybe totally abandon the platform and go with Microsoft or some other Intel architecture.

Over half of the 112 IT managers present at this conference attended a presentation by InterForm and IceBreak entitled "Restructuring of a complicated paper flow to an electronic workflow"

The IceBreak presentation was the biggest draw at the conference. Martin Hecht Olsen from System & Method explained the technology behind the document portal and workflow solution that was developed for Mazda.