The i7 Framework for System-i

An application in 10 lines of code The i7 Framework for System i
Ivo Jansch <ivo@ibuildings.nl>

Contents
About Ibuildings
About PHP
The i7 Framework
Demo
Requirements
Support options

About Ibuildings
Company
Founded in 1999
Based in the Netherlands
Today: 50+ employees in 4 offices (Amsterdam, Vlissingen, Sittard and London)
Technology (open source) background
Main activities
Technology & Development
Business Solutions
PHP support & consultancy

What is PHP?
PHP is an easy to use, open source scripting language
Designed for web application development
4.5+ Million PHP Developers
PHP is the leading scripting language on the Internet
22+ Million Internet domains
Outpacing Microsoft’s ASP
Thousands of PHP applications are available
Web applications tied to databases
Content management
Wikis and Blogs
Business software

Why is PHP popular?
The Migration to Web Applications
When did you last install a desktop application?
Emerging generation of software services (Web2.0)
Web becoming the new UI to existing backend applications
PHP is the perfect Web Integration Platform
Perfect front-end glue language
Best support for browser based rich client applications (Ajax)
Strong support for Web Services, XML & legacy systems
Powerful SOA capabilities enable new IT approaches (“mashable assets”)
PHP is backed by a very strong community
Very easy to learn and adopt
~ 1000 committers, ~ 4.5M developers (corporate/community)
Thousands of opensource projects and applications
Hundreds of thousands of commercial deployments

Why use PHP on System-i?
Easy to learn with a large support community
Easy way to 'webify' existing System-i apps (compared to Java)
Most popular server side language on the Web
Fairly lightweight runtime environment
Easy to administer (Zend provides tools)
Provides many extensions for particular programming tasks
Database APIs (DB2, MySQL, Oracle, SQLServer, etc.)
i5 PHP Toolkit (only available with Zend Core or Zend Platform)
XML
PDF
Cryptography
Web services

Application areas
Zend's June 2003 market snapshot of the PHP community. The survey had over 10,000 respondents.
http://www.zend.com/zend/php_survey_results.php

PHP on System-i
Zend Core is a distribution of PHP
Maintained through a partnership between IBM and Zend
Native DB2/400 UDB/Cloudscape support
WebEnabler Technology
Zend Studio Server for remote debugging
Everything you need to get started
You can download Zend Core for free
Contains everything you need to start building applications (Apache web server, PHP 5.x.x and most common extensions)

PHP on System-i
i5 Toolkit API
Native access System i objects :
Programs, Service programs(*SRVPGM) and CL commands
Spooled file, Data Queue, User Space, Job logs
Shipped with Zend products
Zend core for i5/OS
Geared towards accessing i5 data and resources from PHP
Similar in purpose to the IBM Toolbox for Java

The i7 Framework
i5 + PHP + ATK = i7

i7 Framework
Business application development
i7 is an object oriented Web Application Framework, written in PHP
Targeted at developers who wish to focus on business logic, instead of coding HTML

i7 Framework
Provides a complete framework that requires only small amounts of code to get usable applications, while maintaining full flexibility.
Open technology
Based on the Open Source Achievo ATK framework
Ported to System-i
Supported version

Software stack i5/OS Zend Core (PHP) i7 Framework Your application

i7 philosophy
Very Rapid Application Development
Code minimization (10 lines of code…)
“ Don’t reinvent the wheel”
“ Don’t Repeat Yourself” principle
80/20 rule
Versatile
Supports many databases
Runs out of the box
Dependencies are bundled
PHP4 / PHP5
Customizable
Modular system
Customize i7
Customize your own software

i7 Demo
Demo…

i7 features
For the user
Uniform interface
CRUD functionality
Data search functionality
Themes
Internationalization (15+ languages)
AJAX features
For the developer
Database abstraction layer (MySQL, DB2, Oracle
Model Driven Architecture (MDA)
Relationship modeling (e.g. 1:N, N:1, N:M db relations)
Flexible authentication & authorization
Reuse of System-i resources
Application session management
Out of the box, but 100% customizable

i7 is NOT…
A component framework
Zend Framework
ezComponents
PEAR
These provide components to build applications
i7 builds the application
A code generator
Code needs to be maintained
An IDE
But it plays nice with Zend Studio

Requirements
i5/OS V5R3 or V5R4
Zend Core
2.0 (when using PHP db2 driver)
2.5 (when using native i5 driver)
The i7 Framework
An editor (Zend Studio)

Subscription model
Fees primarily based on support
Support models:

Services
Training
PHP
Object Oriented Programming
i7
Consultancy
Architecture
Audits
Development services
Projects
Outplacement

Development Model
Evolutionary development
Grow as needed
Community contributions
Sponsorship
Generalization
Careful selection of development layer
Need something twice -> generalize
Quality control
Unit Testing
Documentation
Wiki

Questions?

More info
Visit these websites for more information about Ibuildings and the i7 Framework:
http://www.ibuildings.nl
http://www.i7.nl
http://www.achievo.org/blog
http://www.zend.com
ivo@ibuildings.nl
Thank you!

The i7 Framework for System-i

by Ivo Jansch on Oct 01, 2007

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