Greg Lang

Every developer will at some point have to integrate his or her work with a legacy system running on a mainframe platform. These projects tend to be both painful and challenging due in no small part to the limited information- sharing capabilities of outdated, albeit stable, systems. XML and Web services didn't exist when some of these applications were written. The concept of browser-based applications was years away. Green-screen applications were the norm and dinosaurs ruled the earth (just kidding about that last part). Teamstudio has a product called Screensurfer that brings screen-based applications to the browser in HTML format quickly and painlessly. They do this through a 3270/5250 Web gateway controlled by easily modified ASCII text files. Using a series of w... (more)