RE: What About Price vs. Performance?

Brad, you'll NEVER get this level of flexibility with RPG-CGI.  Theoretically 
it can be done, but I doubt that I'll see it in my lifetime.  On the other 
hand, I've already implemented it.  That's because Java is so much more 
productive than RPG-CGI.  Heck, I'm on my third generation of Java UI design - 
the next one will support XML and revitalization as part of the base design.

Show me I'm wrong.  Implement a completely softcoded generation scheme such as 
I've done, where someone can change the layout by simply adding a record to a 
file.  Where you can change the positions and headings of the fields by keying 
the new heading into a database file, and it affects every screen that field 
shows up on.  Show me it can be done in RPG-CGI.  Otherwise, it's just empty 
words.  This is configuration, not programming, and if you don't understand the 
difference, then we've got nothing more to discuss.

Joe

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@taylorcorp.com>
Reply-To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 10:09:03 -0500 

>> > The primary benefit of my Java approach is that I can add 
> one record to a
> database file and change a field into a dropdown list or a 
> checkbox rather
> than an entry field.  No programming required
> 
> Someone once tried to convince me that his 
> product/tool/system was better
> than
> everybody else's.  His argument was: "With my system, no 
> programming is
> required,
> you just give the computer its instructions".
> 
> Surely, you did have to do "something". That something (no 
> matter what it is)
> *is* programming. It might be in a different language, different form,
> whatever,
> but it is programming nevertheless.
> 
> Leif

Agreed, Leif.  I can (as I'm sure others can as well) do this with eRPG,
COBOL, Perl, any CGI programming language as well.  The key is programming
ahead for it.  No programming when the record is added, but there WAS
programming ahead of time. 

Brad

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