The RPG language has many aspects to it that have survived the test of time,
like it’s ease of database access and simple modularity structure. But other areas of
RPG have lagged behind, like the user interfacing layer and a modern approach to
community documentation. This article will describe how you can use RPG to build a
modern interface that addresses the community supplied documentation need by combining
new browser framework technology (for example, ExtJS) and existing back-end server
software (such as, Apache, RPG and DB2 for i).
like it’s ease of database access and simple modularity structure. But other areas of
RPG have lagged behind, like the user interfacing layer and a modern approach to
community documentation. This article will describe how you can use RPG to build a
modern interface that addresses the community supplied documentation need by combining
new browser framework technology (for example, ExtJS) and existing back-end server
software (such as, Apache, RPG and DB2 for i).