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Dr. Syd Nicholson skrev:
Agreed, I like to limit myself to just two languages. RPGLE and JavaScript.
Using IceBreak on the System I. At the moment I have no need for anything
else.

I did learn Java, and have created a number of Java applications, but the
biggest problem I have found is unreliability. A few years after writing the
software that contains Java, the customer upgrades to a new Java version and
the entire application fails because in the meantime something has been
deprecated, then removed.

This is extremely interersting. Could you elaborate a bit on which things were deprecated and removed, as my personal experience is that Sun is close to hysterical about deprecating but not removing. Perhaps some third party library?


I dropped Java, JSP, Apache, TomCat, etc. when IceBreak came along. And now
I have no incentive to change back. Life is much, much simpler.
I've found Java to be somewhat a super tanker (big ship hauling oil). You need a lot of effort to get started, but when you are up to speed you can get REALLY much done without much additional effort.

How much work would it be for example to create a scalable, standards compliant web service which serves images, pdfs and excel sheets dynamically from contents in a database table?



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