Does IBM offer anything like HostBridge?
No. IBM offers many different products for 3270 application integration, but none of them do what HostBridge does. IBM’s primary product offerings for 3270 application integration are Host-on-Demand (HOD), Host Publisher and CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG). Support for all of these products has been incorporated within WebSphere. Host On Demand provides Java-based terminal emulation along with its-Host Access Class Library (HACL). Essentially, HACL is a Java-based implementation of HLLAPI. It allows a Java application to “operate” a 3270 application using screen scraping techniques. Host Publisher provides terminal emulation and screen scraping capabilities for 3270, 5250, VT-based applications. It also provides Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) and access to other Java applications. Host Publisher can consolidate multiple data sources and create the appearance of a single composite application or Web page. Host Publisher can generate either HTML or XML. CTG supports two interfaces: ECI
