[Info-vax] OpenVMS servers and clusters as a cloud service

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/2/2018 9:38 PM, Richard Maher wrote:
> On 03-Jan-18 10:13 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 1/2/2018 9:06 AM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>>> You can still have the main web pages/applications on some other
>>> web environment if you want, and just run some AJAX calls against
>>> the VMS system to manage the data.
>>
>> If we talk internet (and I somewhat assume we are give the usage
>> of the term "main web"), then I would recommend:
>>
>> browser---standard web app---VMS web app
>>
>> over:
>>
>>           |--standard web app
>> browser--|
>>           |--VMS web app
>>
>> for security reasons.
>>
>> (plus number of firewalls and a web proxy but that applies to both)
> 
> As of today yes and therefore no real reason for the VMS server part to 
> be a "Web App" at all,

Neither PHP nor ASP.NET but only Java EE is good at keeping a permanent
socket open. So using HTTP as transport is practical.

>                      but surely the goal if not the dream is to have
> 
> browser --| VMS Web App
> 
> alone?

That will take some time and effort.

Arne