TN5250 is now the most popular method of delivering AS400 and iServer 5250 terminal emulation due to the flexibility and freedom from proprietary SNA and Twinax network environments. Meanwhile, the use of TN5250 outside of a company's walls is a frequently a very low-security environment. With the Inventu Viewer+ FVTerm application integrated with your chosen web application identity framework and running with the Industry standard SSL solution of Microsoft IIS, TN5250 applications can be delivered as 100% HTML and javascript to all popular browsers, with no changes required on the AS400 / iSeries / IBM i.
Many companies have implemented user productivity applications that work as Web applications, yet still have a terminal emulator running on the user's desktop. With Inventu Viewer+, the TN5250 applications can be integrated at the browser so that the users see a single menu, and can easily switch between other web applications and the TN5250 emulation session.
IBM/Rational Host-on-Demand and Microfocus/Attachmate Reflections for the Web are two of the most popular Java-based Web terminal emulators in-use today.
Originally, Java provided a slick way to reduce the hassles of installing desktop terminal emulators while also enabling integration with in-house Web Applications through a variety of HLLAPI-derived API's.
But Oracle has withdrawn support for Java applets, making their use problematic both from a management and security perspective. What once was a slick solution is now a big PAIN and your users are the ones suffering a loss of productivity and compatibility--only Internet Explorer 11 still works with Java applets!
Other vendors may offer "HTML5 Web Terminal Emulators" but the server and network impact of these are radically different; NOT Inventu Viewer+, with our robust and mature compressed datastream technology.
Inventu has helped many organizations, both large and small, convert from being trapped by their Java TN5250 terminal emulators -- Learn more about What You Should Look For in a TN5250 Web Terminal Emulator.