RE: RPG.NET

>From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
>because as most architecture texts will agree, you should 
>not distribute your business rules to the desktop. 

No argument. However, I don't see that as being contrary to using the
iSeries as a database. All your business rules are embedded in your stored
procs (RPG/Cobol/CL/etc) and the stored procs access your actually tables. 

>Because it locks me into ASP.  

And coding JSP locks me into JSP. (BTW, coding RPG locks me into RPG, Cobol
locks me into Cobol, Java locks me into java, Pascal locks... You get the
point)


>I can't justify spending $1000 for a
>non-standard web development platform, 

All depends on how you define "standard." Last I checked Sun hasn't
submitted Java to any standards body and Microsoft has submitted C# and CLR
to a standards committee. Oh, and you can buy the competitive upgrade from
MS for ~$500.

-Walden

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-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 6:10 PM
To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RE: RPG.NET

> If you're willing to use the iSeries like a large database

But the iSeries is NOT a large database, and should not be used as one.
It is a business rules repository, because as most architecture texts
will agree, you should not distribute your business rules to the
desktop.


> And you can't use your .NET code in ASP.NET pages for what reason?

Because it locks me into ASP.  A side note: as far as I can tell,
Microsoft is losing HTTP server market share out there and has been
since 2002.


> Have you looked at Visual Studio.NET?

Not since the beta, Walden.  I can't justify spending $1000 for a
non-standard web development platform, although I'd probably be willing
to look at it if I were doing desktop application development (which is
what I've said all along - Microsoft is fine for desktop applications,
provided you're not worried about platform independence).

Joe

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