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monx, your situation is actually a familiar one, and the somewhat old-school description of it was once called, “screen-scraping.”   (This made complete sense, I suppose, “way back” when we were first attempting to connect computers to legacy applications that expected to be talking to dumb terminals.)   In 21st-Century terms, this question would now be, “do I want my mobile-app to pretend to be a web browser, as seen by this legacy application web-site which expects to be talking to a dumb terminal a browser?

A very-serious and very-immediate issue that will very-immediately face you is the following:   “possibly-mountains of JavaScript,” which the legacy application existing web-site may well expect the browser your application to be able to execute, all of this being the actual(!) legacy- interface to the application.   Truly, you need to find this out as soon as possible.

Also:   It actually does not matter diddly-squat what host-side(!) language your legacy application web-site was “written in,” simply because present-day web applications actually consist of an entirely-unpredictable “mash-up” of host-side vs. client-side behaviors.   (FaceBook® was originally implemented in PHP, but who-the-hell knows or cares?)

Ahem ...

Without further pretenses, and without the slightest concerns about the “flood of down-votes” that such statements will now certainly bring from The Peanut Gallery™, I am now going to put on my consultant’s hat, and bluntly tell you something that you probably do not want to hear:

Any Mobile Application is n-o-t (merely ...) “a front-end to what already is there.”   Nope, Sorry.   It is entirely separate application(s), and must be project-planned as such!

You think that your situation is somehow an exception.   Yes, you do.   Of course you do.   (They all do.)   You think that the fact that the back-end “is implemented in ‘Perl’” actually makes a difference.   (And, you right-now seem to be supported by a you-just-cant-get-rid-of-em cloud of mosquitoes who insist that sundialsvc4 can’t possibly know his asterisk from a hole in the ground be possessed of even one single thought worth thinking ... but, I digress.)   I feel your pain.   If When you want to hear more, please message me privately.   There is still time.


In reply to Re: Perl, Android web app, AJAX, JSON by sundialsvc4
in thread Perl, Android web app, AJAX, JSON by monx663

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