A ZIETrans 5250 example

The following figure shows a screen from the host application:

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:

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:

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).