5250 Connect User’s Guide
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What Applications Can You Build Using the 5250 User
Interface Component Editor?
exteNd Composer, and consequently the 5250 Connect, can be applied to the the
following types of applications:
1 Business to Business Web Service interactions such as supply chain
applications.
2 Consumer to Business interactions such as self-service applications from
Web Browsers.
3 Enterprise Application Integrations where information from heterogeneous
systems is combined or chained together.
Fundamentally, the 5250 Component Editor allows you to extend any XML
integration you are building to include any of your business applications that
support 5250-based terminal interactions (See the exteNd Composer User's
Guide for more information.)
For example, you may have an application that retrieves a product's description,
picture, price, and inventory from regularly updated databases and displays it in a
Web browser. By using the 5250 Component Editor, you can now get the current
product information from the operational systems and the static information (e.g.,
a picture) from a database and merge the information from these separate
information sources before displaying it to a user. This provides the same current
information to both your internal and external users.
