Imagine you need to create a GUI for a 5250 host application. With ZIETrans you have a choice of providing the
GUI using a Web application.
The following figure shows a screen from the host application:
Figure 1. A host terminal screen
If you need to create a Web application that provides the GUI, you
use a wizard to create a simple ZIETrans Web project. You give your
project a name and specify the host machine where the host application
runs. You take all the defaults and add no customization. After just
a few minutes, you use the preview function to see the host screen
transformed to this:
Figure 2. A default
Web transformation
As you can see, ZIETrans has added a banner across the top of the
screen and a navigation area on the left, but has made minimal changes
to the original host screen. This Web page is not yet what you want
to show to your users. Now you do some customization. After each change
you make, you preview the screen to evaluate your changes. Soon your
page looks like this:
Figure 3. A customized
Web transformation
When creating a Web application, you might decide that
this is enough customization, but with ZIETrans you can add much more.
For example, you can:
Use ZIETrans macro support to provide programmed navigation through
multiple host screens. For example, you can take your users directly
to the first screen that you want them to use, bypassing other screens.
You can combine data from several host screens into one ZIETrans GUI
page.
Use business logic and global variables to integrate your host
applications with other back-end systems in your enterprise, as
well as with your business partners' systems.
From ZIETrans macros generate ZIETrans Integration Objects, which
are Java™ beans that encapsulate
interactions with a host application, and use them to create Web pages,
Web services support files, or RESTful service JAX-RS
resources.
Develop Enterprise JavaBeans™ components
that use ZIETrans Integration Objects to exchange data with host applications.
Develop a ZIETrans
Web application with an interface that allows users to access your
host system using mobile devices such as cellular phones, data collection
terminals, and personal digital assistants (PDAs).
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