CNX Aims to Streamline Web 2.0 Development for i OS with Valence
July 22, 2008 Alex Woodie
CNX has released a new development tool that’s aimed at making it easy for RPG developers to create Web 2.0 style interfaces. The new toolset, called Valence, is based on the collection of JavaScript classes called EXTJS, and uses JavaScript’s native data-formatting language, JSON. According to CNX executives, Valence delivers a native and extremely fast connections between Web browsers and back-end RPG applications running on the i-based Power Systems server. The Valence story starts in 2001, when the folks at Chicago-based CNX started looking for a tool to Web-enable their add-on planning system for BPCS called ATOMIC, according to Richard |