Websphere Host Publisher - IBM i series Handbook

• Toolbox for Java
• TCP/IP Connectivity Utilities for iSeries
• IBM WebSphere Application Server, for iSeries (standard or advanced editions at
V3.0.02, or later)
Note
V5R1 iSeries Access for the Web is only available in English. IBM intends to provide
national language support for iSeries Access for Web functions in a future release.

WebSphere Host Publisher

WebSphere Host Publisher enables 5250 applications to run unchanged on the iSeries in the
WebSphere Application Server (standard or advanced) environment. Using the Host
Publisher Studio portion of WebSphere Host Publisher, a programmer can work with selected
portions of an application and consolidate pieces of multiple 5250 host application screens
without needing access to the source code, and then externalize these to the Web as a single
HTML Web page. This solution provides customers with a simple way to move their
applications to the Web with minimal effort, and allows the iSeries to easily play a powerful
role in Web serving.
Host Publisher allows you to integrate multiple sources of data, including host and database
applications, as a single Web page with no change to backend applications. Server Secure
Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption and authentication is provided for the high level of security
that you need for your Web-based environment. Virtually any user with a standard Web
browser can run iSeries applications from the Web without seeing those traditional green
screens. WebSphere Host Publisher consists of two major components: Host Publisher
Studio and Host Publisher server.
• Host Publisher Studio: Provides an easy-to-use customization environment that runs
on Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0, and 2000, and is used to create Integration
Objects that can be used to dynamically access back-end data sources. The studio
generates fully customizable HTML output with embedded JavaServer Pages (JSP)
tags. Point-and-click features allow Web administrators to map specific fields on a Web
page using the HTML tags to point to specific fields on the host emulation screen or
database table. This bidirectional implementation allows information to be updated
from the Web interface, making it simple to connect users to backend systems across
the enterprise. Host Publisher Studio is a separately installable option of iSeries
Access for Web.
• Host Publisher server: Provides the run-time environment to execute Integration
Objects, reusable beans for Java applications, created with Host Publisher Studio. To
support the run-time environment for applications that use Integration Objects created
by Host Publisher Studio, the Host Publisher server runs on the WebSphere
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