Websphere Host Publisher As/400 - New With V2.2 - IBM i series Handbook

Benefits
WebSphere Host Publisher V2.2 for AS/400 provides a quick and easy way to implement
e-business applications. Extend the reach of mission-critical applications to new users across
the intranet and Internet without changing the existing applications. WebSphere Host
Publisher allows you to integrate multiple sources of host data into a single Web page, giving
end users the appearance of a single new application.
WebSphere Host Publisher supports applications written for 3270, 5250, VT, Java, and
databases that provide a Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) interface such as IBM DB2
Universal Database, Oracle, and Sybase. It supports any HTML-based browser and does not
require any specific Java-enabled browser.
You can use Host Publisher Integration Objects in new WebSphere applications to provide
legacy access to those applications. Therefore, the investment you make in Host Publisher
legacy extension today can be leveraged in the new WebSphere applications that you'll
create in the future.
Provide host access for new e-business applications and significantly reduce the time and
expense that would otherwise be incurred to complete these new e-business application projects.
WebSphere Host Publisher V2.2 enables you to extend your current applications to the
Internet, providing the quickest and easiest way to implement e-business.
The benefits are:
• Provides a quick and easy way to implement e-business by extending your current
applications to the Internet
• Requires no change to existing applications
• Consolidates multiple sources of host data into a single Web page
• Extends the reach of your business by allowing you to contact new customers and
enabling inter-company projects
• Enables you to gain a competitive advantage by extending your sales channels and
providing new Web self services
• Helps improve the productivity of your workforce by enhancing aging applications with
new front ends and extending real-time access to your mobile workforce
WebSphere Host Publisher AS/400 – New with V2.2
• Supports WebSphere V3
• Enables you to extend Host Publisher to remote Java applications and applets with the
new Remote Integration Objects (RIO) support
• Provides an XML Gateway that allows program access to 3270 and 5250 application
data in an XML format
WebSphere and e-business
WebSphere and e-business
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