Got a Tandem legacy system, ugly screens, Online servers, and data, all on the Tandem. Self-studied
Java, then went to Java class for a week. Meanwhile, I rewrote an ugly legacy screen in Java and rewrote the screen's Tandem data server in C. Requests and responses are FTP'd back and forth to
test functionality. The Java "interface" is merely a fileWriter and a fileReader. The Java I/O is split off into a separate little class, with a RqstMethod and a RespMethod, but it's really no big deal. I knew I was writing a client/server app with a giant Black Hole for connectivity, but I thought surely there'd be a plug & play solution to fill the gap. I mean like we're a big company with scads of web applications, I thought surely there'd be a company approved methodology for filling the black hole I created. But, it's pretty clear that there isn't any money in my group's budget to pay another group in the company to tell us how eliminate this web connectivity black hole. Instead of concrete help, my coworkers merely talk about using an NT server they found gathering dust in a spare room and suggest I should rewrite my Java to be a
servlet that would respond to the User with web pages. Up to today my attitude has been to hide in my office focussing entirely on my 2 end pieces and hope that somebody will eradicate my Black Hole for me, but today a co-worker let me know that he bought 2 Java networking books for our group's "Java library", implying that I should use them for ideas on establishing web connectivity, and it pissed me off, you know? I mean like I spent a lot of time writing the Java code and corresponding C data server, why should I also have to write the network server, and hook it all up by myself? I don't know squat about web connectivity. Any comments on how I could simply accomplish some basic web connectivity?