RE: What About Price vs. Performance?

Would using jdbc and stored procedures also isolate
the client code from the database logic?  Then it
wouldn't matter whether the stored procedure was RPG
or sql or cobol, on an as/400 or oracle?  

I'm not saying, or asking, which is better - I'm
asking which is truly most portable.

Phil

--- "Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@taylorcorp.com>
wrote:
> > No, if you have something better than the AS/400,
> go ahead.  
> > In the meantime, I'll use the best tool for the
> job, and if 
> > the time comes to find another server, I'll simply
> redesign 
> > my templates and move on.  Remember, Leif, all of
> my servers 
> > are encapsulated by a message, so they can be
> reimplemented 
> > in any language on any platform I choose.  I
> simply choose 
> > the AS/400, and have no reason to be "free" of it.
> > 
> 
> One more thing.  Which is the lesser of two evils? 
> Using SQL for record
> access, or using messaging?  In one case all you
> should need is possibly a
> new JDBC driver.  In the other, your back end data
> mining tools (in your
> case I believe written in RPG) have to be rewritten.
> 
> I see advantages to each, but I think I would choose
> the SQL route.
> 
> Then again, that assumes that table and DB layouts
> remain unchanged when you
> move to the new platform (of course).
> 
> Brad
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