RE: Cases in AS400

 
Jack,
Agreed on your first paragraph, but not on your second...
 
Used well, CASE tools can save a lot of labor.  In addition to  everything 
else, they encourage reuse and a shared development  environment.   These are 
not natural to most traditional midrange  developers, but have large benefits 
if 
used well (meaning with good standards,  naming conventions, etc. so that 
other developers can find and reuse).  
 
What paradigm are you referring to?  I believe Lansa and 2e are both  doing 
reasonably well.   I'm directly familiar with 2e and it has  picked back up 
once Sterling sold it to CA.  You can now generate HTML  displays and EJB 
programs from the same Action Diagrams and Screen  Designs.  Works for me.
 
--Chapin Kaynor
  Vermont
 
In a message dated 5/3/2005 7:50:59 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

message:  9
date: Tue, 3 May 2005 07:51:45 -0400
from: "Jack Derham"  <derhamj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: Cases in AS400

I'm sure  that you intended to mention that although it generates what us
"old birds"  consider miserable code, it did generate it consistently and
that was a  great help when you did have to go in and clean up.

In my mind's eye,  it has faded from use because the paradigm was too
difficult a transition  and it did not save any labor.

Jack Derham
Direct Systems,  Inc.