iSeries Web Interaction wizard

The iSeries Web Interaction wizard helps you define input and output pages, fields, and parameters. You also use the wizard to identify the host program, procedure, or Java bean to call for each Web interaction. In addition, you can use the wizard to define message handling for the Web pages in your application. The wizard uses all of this data to add code to the JSP files and to generate the Java classes that enable communication between the Web pages in your application and the iSeries host programs, procedures, or Java beans that perform the business processing for your application.

A Web interaction consists of three components: For example, the user views a page in a browser that displays one or more fields. The user enters data in the fields and clicks a Submit button. This input request is processed by the host program and the output is sent back to the browser as a results page. This sequence of submitting input through a browser, processing by the program, and returning output to the browser is a Web interaction. A Web application includes an entire sequence of Web interactions, where the output page of one interaction is used as the input page of another interaction.

Before running your iSeries Web application you need to specify the run-time values used by your application in the iSeries Web Tools Run-time Configuration wizard.