THE MOST DIRECT ROUTE TO E-BUSINESS e-inventory e-order e-deliver e-process e-service e-manage ELECTRONIC BUSINESS IS HAPPENING EVERYWHERE Internet technologies and the Web are transforming every aspect of the way you do business today. And they’re changing how you’ll compete tomorrow. How you’ll reach new markets. Deepen customer relationships. Leverage knowledge. Streamline business processes. Step up efficiency. Compress timeto-market. Communicate with employees. And strengthen your supply chain. “While the numbers are big, selling goods on the Web doesn’t come close to capturing the real wallop of the Net. Businesses are adopting the Internet to get serious work done. By using the Internet to link directly to suppliers, factories, distributors, and customers, these companies are electrifying their usually time consuming and tedious tasks. It’s nothing less than the collapse of time and space between partners.” InformationWeek 1 Business is rapidly moving in “e” directions. It’s not just selling products to consumers online. In fact, that’s just a small piece of the e-business story. The bigger impact of e-business will be seen in the process efficiencies that occur when you: • Make AS/400 applications easier to use and access for existing users like order processing reps, reservations agents, accountants and warehouse managers. For example, reorganize a complicated order entry process or put a hot spot on an order status screen that connects to the FedEx Website to check a shipment. • Offer self-service to new users like your agents, distributors and employees. For example, let dealers check inventory online, let agents process an insurance claim via the Web, or let employees look up their vacation accrual on a Saturday. J Walk™ can help you quickly gain process efficiency and e-business advantage from your AS/400 business applications. J Walk’s strong customer foundation has been built on host application enhancement and extension, typically targeted at the traditional users of AS/400 business applications. Increasingly, customers are using J Walk to unlock e-business potential and reach new users, both internal and external. Either way, it’s the same J Walk software that does the work. With J Walk, you’ll adapt to shifts in your marketplace and business processes quickly, providing information systems support faster than users thought possible. And you’ll accelerate your e-business initiatives – deploying extranet, intranet and Internet applications in a matter of weeks, not the months or even years associated with other approaches. J Walk to E-Business J Walk is a complete development and deployment solution that includes pointand-click developer’s tools, specialized server software and self-updating thin client viewer software. Using J Walk, application developers can enhance AS/400 applications for process efficiency and for e-business to: • Implement Web-to-host/host-to-Web connectivity • Deploy graphical thin clients to any mix of Java, browser or Windows users from a single development effort • Integrate multiple applications at the client or server • Reengineer application workflow, streamlining navigation for traditional users or isolating specific business processes for Web deployment to new users • Enhance the user experience with customized graphical user interfaces for previously character-based, green-screen applications • Manage persistent communication between host and user, including built-in terminal emulation • Reduce administration and maintenance with zero-administration client software and robust change management. All without changing the host application. 2 The workhorse applications that contain most of the world’s data and core business processes are going to be the IT industry linchpins supporting revolutionary ways of doing business over the next decade. Let J Walk transform your AS/400 applications with the enhancements and functionality your organization needs to do e-business today. J Walk to Application Enhancement While industry attention is focused on e-business, there are still many companies which simply wish to modernize their host applications with GUI clients; integrate with personal productivity tools like e-mail, Lotus Notes®, Microsoft® Word and Excel; and adopt the “separate GUI client” architecture to improve timeliness and maintenance for ongoing application development. These organizations use J Walk as a standard part of their development process. As an added bonus, once they install SEAGULL server and viewer software, they already have the infrastructure in place to implement e-business initiatives whenever they choose. With J Walk, you can enhance existing applications – or build new ones faster. Developers build GUI thin clients in a point-and-click desktop environment, using templates to quickly establish a consistent design. Workflow reengineering, client and/or server integration and new functionality are added without altering underlying AS/400 code. The resulting graphical clients can then be deployed to any mix of Java, browser or Windows users – all from a single development effort. And because the architecture is server-centric, the client software is “zero-admin”. Tabs organize multiple complex screens into a single view Integrate with other applications, including desktop productivity tools Automatically convert subfiles to list boxes Select dates using a pop-up calendar window Include built-in charting functionality to view AS/400 data graphically With J Walk, you can enhance existing applications – or build new ones faster – in an open, middle-tier architecture deployed to Java, browser or Windows graphical thin clients. The J Walk product line includes: J Walk Developer: PC-based developer toolkit allows developers to build customized interfaces and e-business access to AS/400 applications without the complexity of new and unfamiliar programming environments. By eliminating the learning curve of new technical environments, developers can deliver applications faster and more reliably. And Java developers and Windows experts can build host-centric e-business applications without access to or familiarity with the host code. J Walk Server: Running on the AS/400 or on NT, J Walk Server connects to back-end host applications, maintains persistent and secure connections, stores and updates user interface definitions and delivers thin clients to a volatile mix of end-user devices and platforms. This middle-tier solution reduces system maintenance and administration by orders of magnitude. The J Walk Server automatically delivers the most current version of the application when users access the host. And firewall negotiation, digital signatures and data encryption provide triple security coverage for sensitive Internet deployments. J Walk Client: SEAGULL’s portable, open “viewer” software presents the thin graphical interface to the end-user. One way to think of it is like an Adobe Acrobat® Reader or RealPlayer™ plug-in. J Walk Client is a Java applet or downloadable Windows application that negotiates the connection to host applications, then recognizes and presents the customized graphical panels that you built with J Walk Developer. The thin client is pre-coded, tested and finely tuned for internal network, extranet and Internet deployments – browser, Java or Windows clients in any combination at any time. 3 “In about 3 months, 4 1/2 programmers touched approximately 11 million lines of code and over 5,000 screens with J Walk. We were able to totally change the look, the feel and the flow of our application – and that changed the image of the product in our marketplace.” Matt Parsons Marketing Manager EDS’ Automotive Retail Group J Walk: Follow the Leader JWalk is the industry-leading application enhancement and extension solution used by more corporate IS and software vendor organizations worldwide than any other technology of its kind on any platform. And it’s more comprehensive than any other comparable offering on the market. Our Customers are Leaders, Too 4 More than 5,000 developers and over 6,500 organizations worldwide use SEAGULL technology to leverage their organizations’ investments in AS/400 and mainframe applications by keeping them relevant to changing business needs and new technologies. Our customers include independent software vendors (ISVs) and corporate IS departments. For ISVs, software applications are their competitive lifeblood. To stay ahead, more than 350 leading ISVs use J Walk to enhance their applications for e-business, keeping their products competitive in the marketplace. With J Walk, companies like J.D. Edwards, American Software, Marcam, Fiserv, ALLTEL, Kronos and Harbinger: • Deploy their applications across Windows, Java, browser and ActiveX GUI clients • Deliver major enhancements, including user-customizable business graphics and integration with desktop applications Corporate IS departments come to SEAGULL with specific business needs. Some want to capitalize on the promise of e-business. Others want to preserve their investments in Year 2000-compliant applications and improve their operations through streamlining workflow and multiapplication integration. With J Walk, customers: • Allow dealers throughout North America to place orders, check order status and file warranty claims online via Java clients • Deploy a medical management system across Java, browser and ActiveX clients • Enable subscribers to verify the status of their investments via the Internet on an AS/400 application accessed from Java clients • Give agents 24 x 7 Web access to insurance policy information • Achieve 100 percent productivity improvement for reservations agents Through our ties with industry leaders such as IBM, Sun Microsystems and Citrix, and our commitment to industry standards such as JavaBeans, Java APIs and ActiveX, SEAGULL helps customers keep applications relevant to changing technologies and business needs. As a Lotus Advanced Business Partner, SEAGULL complies with Lotus standards, and integrates and optimizes its development solutions for use with Lotus products such as Notes and Domino®. IBM is a marketing partner, a technology partner, and a SEAGULL customer. SEAGULL participates in many IBM initiatives, including IBM e-business Partner, AS/400 Partner in Development: All Star Status, System/390 Partner in Development and Tools Network Partner. SEAGULL won the “Powered by AS/400e” award for technical and business excellence in providing AS/400 customers with industry-leading tools and mid-tier solutions. The J Walk Java Client is certified 100% Pure Java™ by Sun Microsystems, the result of SEAGULL’s commitment to comply with industry standards and deliver the highest-quality and most flexible technology solutions available on the market. Why Does J Walk Lead the Pack? J Walk enables rapid application enhancement. Whether you want to enhance an entire 4,000-screen application for internal users, or deploy a small piece of the app for e-business projects, J Walk is much faster than building from scratch or code generator approaches. And because most of the software is already tested and in production (your AS/400 application, J Walk Server and J Walk Client), the quality of your deliverables is significantly higher than with any other method. J Walk is comprehensive. GUI building, Web-to-host, emulation, interapplication integration, desktop integration, thin client and data access. J Walk combines all these capabilities into one easy-to-use development and deployment solution. JWalk makes it easier. J Walk does most of the hard work for you, freeing you to spend development cycles on supporting new business processes, not low-level programming or duplicating existing application functions on new platforms. JWalk opens up your applications. With J Walk, your applications can be more flexible and responsive to changing needs. J Walk implements a “shared application services” architecture that separates the user interface from the host application and the middle-tier business logic. So it is possible for the host, the server and the UI to change independently. And because the server and client software support industry standards for integration, you can incorporate additional software that you buy or build to deliver composite application experiences to users. JWalk extends your ROI. J Walk is non-invasive, requiring no changes to the host code. So your Y2K-ready apps can continue to deliver value to the business as the backbone for e-business self-service as your organization reaches out to new internal and external users. 5 Link to corporate Website Create e-mail from host data Launch browser Link to industry trade publication site Automatically take user to another panel (a different host screen) via a tab folder design Select from drop-down list Integrate images into host application J Walk to Browser, Windows or Java Interfaces 6 With J Walk, you create a new graphical client that dramatically changes the way users see and work with your AS/400 application: • Transform green screens into point-and-click graphical panels • Shorten users’ paths through the application • Bypass unnecessary screens • Reengineer the order of screens to improve productivity and satisfaction with the system • Combine several screens into one • Reorganize complicated screens into tab folders, drop-down list boxes and other graphical interface controls designed with efficiency and ease of use in mind • Add a push button to call a Web page to provide related information • Populate a list box or combo box with realtime data While you’re streamlining the appearance and organization, you can add new functionality without recoding or risking the stability of your AS/400 application. You can also prepare for Web computing by making isolated business processes available across the Internet to prospects, employees and vendors who don’t know – and don’t need to know – how to work with the function keys and workflows of character-based screens running on your AS/400. Your reliable, tested and secure host system still runs smoothly in the background, but users experience a totally different application. Yet you’ve not changed a single line of RPG code. And it’s taken only a fraction of the time that rewriting the application would require. J Walk to Integration and New Functionality J Walk goes way beyond just improving visual appearances. It extends. Integrates. And enhances your AS/400 applications. With new functionality, your applications stay relevant to changing business processes and industry needs. You can enhance an application, for example, using J Walk’s built-in scripting to automatically e-mail an order confirmation to a customer. You can integrate or embed the J Walk client into other visual applications as a component, using ActiveX or JavaBean technology. ActiveX or JavaBean interfaces allow the surrounding application to take full control over the host application’s navigation and can retrieve information from it or feed information into it. Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) support provides an industrystandard way to populate list boxes and combo boxes with data from any ODBC-compliant data source. And J Walk’s built-in realtime, integrated data access (RIDA™) allows developers to expose read-only data to users in list boxes – even data that the underlying application was never designed to present. Introducing Wireless-to-Host™, A New Product Line from SEAGULL 7 J Walk is the fastest, easiest and most cost-effective method for Web-tohost and Windows-to-host accessibility. When it’s time to provide Wireless-to-Host™ integration and functionality to your users, you can get there with SEAGULL technology, too. SEAGULL’s Wireless-to-Host helps you reengineer enterprise application functionality for wireless access. Build a wireless application framework for handling transactions and data. Manage the interaction between your host application and your wireless Web server. All without duplicating business logic that’s already working in your enterprise applications. Our Wireless-to-Host solution makes the development and deployment process faster and easier. The development tool helps you quickly gather screen identification information so you can find the processes and content you want to deploy to wireless devices like Internet-enabled phones, PDAs and Pocket PCs. The application framework helps you map the host fields to your WML browser layouts. The Java Wireless-toHost server then manages the interaction between your wireless devices and enterprise applications. The bottom line: You can open your business applications to the wireless world quickly and easily, without the time, cost and expertise required to build a wireless application from the ground up. It’s the same value proposition that made SEAGULL the industry leader in e-business enabling technology for host application assets – the next logical step in providing a complete suite of software technology that leverages proven business processes on new devices and platforms. Without altering the host application. J Walk to Zero-Administration Architectures Graphical panels built with J Walk can be served multiple ways. So a user can access the J Walk graphical client through a browser today, on a Windows PC tomorrow or a Java machine the next day. With J Walk, it’s that simple. It’s that flexible. 8 And it’s that easy. J Walk’s three-tier network computing architecture allows rapid deployment. It reduces maintenance. Supports change management and software version control and consistency. Unites disparate systems. Provides a closer match between computing capability and user needs. And it represents one more evolutionary step toward zero-administration architectures. J Walk gives you the flexibility to support a volatile mixture of user devices and deployment architectures, including thin clients on PCs, traditional Windows client/server environments, certain hand-held computers, diskless PCs, devices or browsers running Java Virtual Machine. For example, the deployment of thin clients via low-bandwidth data streams enables you to centralize control of applications. So you don’t have to maintain software on hundreds of client PCs. You can automatically serve the latest version of the software to authorized users on demand – whether they’re connected to the LAN or via the Internet. J Walk simplifies maintenance and ensures that users get the most up-to-date version of the software. J Walk’s superior technology complements the data integrity, security and performance that you expect from your AS/400 applications. And with a single development effort, you can deploy to an ever-changing combination of client devices. “J Walk had the zero-admin infrastructure already in place, which meant we could drop in a new version of our application and the end users would pick it up the next time they came in to use the software. That really saved us a lot of time and money in maintenance and administration.” Glenn Gorman Director of Technology Management Dynamics J Walk’s open BUILD ONCE, RUN ANYWHERE architecture and precoded software components allow you to build your enhanced thin client to AS/400 Application run on Windows or JVM user devices anywhere. 525O 9 J Walk Server J TALK* Netscape Navigator IBM Network Station Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer Company Network 1OO% Pure Java Citrix Extranet Internet *Dynamically Encrypted J Walk Onto the Open Web The Web is changing everything. Opening up the supply chain. Creating a new way to exchange money. Modifying the rules of commerce. J Walk makes AS/400 applications available to authorized users via the Web. It lets you use the Internet as a communications backbone. And it provides integrated access to the wealth of information and business opportunities on the Web. 10 Emerging electronic marketplaces deliver information about products and support automated transactions – business-to-business and businessto-consumer alike. Portal-like interfaces to intranet or extranet applications provide a gateway to corporate data. This revolution is not just about buying books at amazon.com or daytrading for fun and profit at E*TRADE. In a special report, Business Week cited Forrester Research findings that e-commerce between businesses is five times larger than consumer transactions. By 2003, the total of business-to-business transactions is projected at $1.3 trillion. While your competitors are figuring out what to do, you can be using J Walk to update and streamline host application workflow, making data and functionality available and intuitive to your “extended family.” And you’ll be creating and deploying solutions that leverage the latest technology without the extended time, risk and cost of new development. It’s the best shortcut to AS/400 applications enhanced with new functionality. And to integrated workhorse applications that make information accessible when and where it’s needed. With J Walk, everything you need for e-business enablement is included. Simply connect the J Walk technology to your foundation application – you’ll be up and running on the Web in weeks, even days. In fact, many J Walk customers deploy e-business solutions in 45 days or less. Unlike terminal emulators, screen scrapers or HTML generators, J Walk lets you customize the graphical client as much as you want. So the resulting thin client viewer will support all application features and all graphical controls via the Web, including the new functionality and enhanced workflows you build with the J Walk solution. J Walk includes integrated support for printing AS/400 spool files over the Web, without requiring any additional client or server software. It also lets you provide persistent, stateful access to host applications via the Web – which is essential for building Internet access to complex and/or compound host processes. J Walk lets you hook your applications to the Internet in a myriad of ways: • As a Java applet served on demand to any authorized user • Hot spots built into Web pages that trigger functionality in an AS/400 application, displaying results in the browser • Push buttons on your application’s new graphical client that automatically launch a browser and load a Web page • A browser-based, thin Windows client implementation where the newest software is served on demand via the Internet through ActiveX and/or browser plug-ins • A thin Windows implementation in which the client is accessed via technologies like Citrix MetaFrame and Microsoft’s Windows Terminal Server • A traditional client/server or Windows implementation with the Internet extending or replacing your own LAN communications backbone 11 J Walk Step by Step You don’t have the time and you can’t run the risk of new development. You need a tool that will invigorate your existing applications, but won’t require you to rewrite your applications from the ground up or develop new functionality from scratch. Your AS/400 applications are software components – tested, proven and ready to go. With J Walk, you can build new components onto this open framework quickly, easily and effectively. For new development efforts, you want the ability to write quickly – in, say, C++ or Java – and know your toolset can take that new code further, faster. With J Walk, you leverage your existing RPG programming talent while introducing developers to new technology. It doesn’t require you to learn a new programming language. A couple of days of training is all you need to be productive. With J Walk, you can quickly build graphical clients without ever scripting or coding. You don’t have to develop twice to support both Java and Windows – you write once and deploy anywhere. That means a shorter learning curve, faster development and rapid time to market. All graphical interface development takes place on the PC, so it never affects AS/400 CPU cycles. And we’ve taken the hard work out of Internet-based computing by pre-building all the connectivity software and presentation logic for you, so you can take host applications to e-business quickly. The J Walk Development Process 1. When you install J Walk Collector™ software on a PC and upload it to the AS/400, it automatically gathers information about all your green screens – even those that are rarely used. Within hours, you capture all the application screens automatically, without having to manually run the application. Transfer the file to the developer’s PC and continue development independently of the AS/400. Note: The Collector will operate with or without display file source (DDS) code. 2a. J Walk Developer instantly creates a picture album containing all the green screens in your application and uniquely identifies each screen. 12 2b. Built-in visual palettes allow you to define the standards for how each set of graphical objects – such as radio buttons, push buttons and frames – will appear on every panel you build. You can customize your design or use those provided in the toolset. 3. The SmartBuild™ agent then applies your visual standards to the collected screens, automatically creating graphical panels for green screens and laying the foundation for your new client interface. 4. Using J Walk Developer’s Panel Editor, you can customize screen layout if you wish. Position and refine push buttons, fields and list boxes. Rename or reformat fields. Add graphs, pie charts or other business graphics. Reengineer complicated screens into tab folders organized by subject. Introduce enterprise and desktop integration and enhancements. 5. As you create, refine and deploy your graphical panels, J Walk’s wizards and context-sensitive help guide you every step of the way. 6. After compiling the new graphical panels and other enhancements, you install the resulting user interface definitions on the AS/400 (or, optionally, NT server) with J Walk Server software. 7. J Walk Server distributes the most current graphical client software to users who access your AS/400 applications. This zero-admin deployment allows you to centralize control of applications at the server. You can also load your J Walk graphical client directly on individual PCs. Whatever you choose, you can deploy your new graphical client to any mix of user devices – all from one development effort. 8. Over time, you can modify or customize your graphical client further using the Panel Editor and then compile and install the updated UI definitions on the J Walk Server. 13 Change Management Regardless of how you build your application, you have to plan for maintenance, administration and upgrades. With J Walk, you’ve separated the presentation layer from the business logic, and used templates to keep that look and feel consistent. Thus, it’s easier to “remodel” as your business needs change. J Walk delivers change management functionality through a wizard – automating an otherwise tedious process. Simply: 1. Run the Collector over the application. 2. Execute the Migration Wizard. 3. Review the changes reported in the active log. 4. Compile and move to the server. 14 THE J WALK DIFFERENCE: SPEED, QUALITY, COST J Walk is a software solution that enhances, opens, connects and extends AS/400 applications to support a wide variety of business objectives ranging from user interface modernization to e-business transaction processing. Alternate approaches include building the enhancements from scratch and code generator technology. The main issues with either of these approaches are: (1) multiple development, testing and maintenance efforts to support multiple deployment environments; (2) more new code means greater risk of software bugs; and (3) it takes longer to get to end of job. The following chart illustrates the simplicity and speed of the J Walk approach. DEVELOP FROM SCRATCH Build, Build, Build To support Windows, Java and browser users, you need to build the application for Windows, then build it again in Java. This requires developers who are proficient in each environment and it requires building the client application individually for each platform. When this process is complete, you have multiple client applications to test and maintain. Develop VB Compile VB Test Install on PCs Windows Develop Java Client Compile Java Test Upload to Server Java CODE GENERATOR Generate, Generate, Generate Code generators eliminate some development cycles by letting you define the base application in the generator’s development tool and then generating code for the various languages and deployment platforms. In practically every situation, developers must “tweak” the generated code. Therefore, the generator can’t maintain the application because any tweaking corrupts the code. Now you must test and maintain the various versions of the application in their native environments. 15 Generate Customize VB VB Compile VB Test Install Windows on PCs Generate Customize Java Java Compile Java Test Upload Java to Server Develop J WALK Build Once, Deploy Anywhere J Walk makes developing and deploying easy. Automated features, wizards and a WYSIWYG visual environment make development of your client application fast. The result is one compiled file that you place on the J Walk Server. The many browser, Windows and JVM versions are pre-tested for you by SEAGULL. Then set up a hyperlink on a Web page so users can access the application. That’s it. Your application is now ready. When the users hit the Website, the application launches (for Java), or automatically checks the version, downloads, installs and configures itself and then launches (for Windows). Windows Java Develop Compile Move to Server HTML TIME AND COMPLEXITY J WALK SHORTENS THE JOURNEY TO E-BUSINESS With J Walk, you leverage host application assets to achieve e-business advantage. Exploit your organization’s AS/400 expertise and combine reliable back-end applications with new server and client software to: • Add functionality • Build new Web applications • Enhance ease of use 16 • And integrate your applications. So you’re Web-ready faster. J Walk is the shortest distance to e-connected, e-enabled, e-enhanced and e-streamlined applications. There’s no faster way to increase customer service, improve supply chain efficiency, gain competitive advantage and extend the return on investment in your AS/400. And there’s no faster way to get to the world’s new business center. F O R M O R E I N F O R M A T I O N , contact your SEAGULL representative or: C A L L 404.760.1560, extension 0 F A X 404.760.0061 E- M A I L [email protected] V I S I T www.seagullsw.com SEAGULL’s product portfolio includes WinJa™, which provides the same rapid e-business enablement, development and deployment solution for the mainframe that J Walk provides for the AS/400 environment. In addition, SEAGULL’s Professional Services organization assists customers in achieving measurable results with our industry-leading tools as quickly as possible. Since 1990, SEAGULL Professional Services experts have been training, mentoring and providing outsourcing services to hundreds of companies around the world. We offer a continuum of services, including: • • • • • • • Public training classes On-site training classes Customer Success Kit Outsourced panel development Demo development Implementation of advanced features Technology audit © 1999 Seagull Software Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. The SEAGULL logo, WinJa, JWalk, RIDA, Collector and Host Session Connector are trademarks of Seagull Software Systems, Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective holders. Company policies and product specifications are subject to change without notice. www.seagullsw.com SEAGULL is the market-leading provider of development tools, server software and thin client deployment technology to rapidly implement host-centric e-business innovation to gain competitive advantage and operational efficiency. More than 6,500 organizations around the world use SEAGULL technology to enhance their mainframe and AS/400 applications. Americas Headquarters Worldwide Headquarters 3340 Peachtree Road, N.E. Korte Parallelweg 1 Suite 900 3311 JN Dordrecht Atlanta, Georgia 30326 The Netherlands Tel 404.760.1560 Tel +31 (0)78 632 2800 Fax 404.760.0061 Fax +31 (0)78 613 8134 E-mail [email protected] E-mail [email protected] JW002-1199-12
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