Well done Darryl. I wish you success and I agree with your stance on what small to medium sized business are prepared to do.
Stephen, Welcome. I venture to say I and Darryl would agree on everything you say. But you will soon find out the reality does match your perfectly good logical view.
I have tried to get my present client looking at CA Products but coming from the CA Plex is the problem I would suggest. The suggestion needs to come form non CA products people.
Client most likely looking at increasing the api managment system which was hand written in java in house or go for https://www.mulesoft.com/
All our teams want is for the IBMi CA Plex to be accessible via webservices and there it ends..tried WCF but was rejected because of .net part...... I have been impressed with IWS Consume & Publish Webservices from IBMi - Solved for publishing not because it is amazing in functionality but it will fit the small medium sized requirements of cheap *in this case free, and easy. Last night was talking through an existing Ca Plex customer in the states how to publish a blockfetch...we are both excited....and it is all free...and i do it to try and keep plex sites going...
Darryl, I dont want to put a dampener on your CA Plex part of Freedom as I applaud your singular effort but Building a REST service with integrated web services server for IBM i: Part 2 does the job with no coding by the developer. When I say does the job you know what I mean. The job could be much better done by better tools and there are limitations see IBM Integrated Web Services for IBM i for limitations but it will do the job that majority of small medium sized ibmi plex shops have been crying out for.
But your product could ace by performance, is it all native rpg, Performance implications of 'IWS' and 'Do It Yourself Native' REST webservices question was never answered by 20,000 users but Scott Klement has alluded to this performance and hence i mention it in my idea IBMi REST Webservices . Does freedom basically do what my idea pattern idea suggests
Well done all and this increased debate on these issues is healthy.
I am presently working on a pattern to allow Plex Sites automatize the deployment to IWS which includes the editing of PCML to have meaningful names and use the COUNT column. Your post has re/invigorated me to one last push via StellaTools.