Re: Ok, so we have a list...

[DAsmussen@xxxxxxx]

Guy,

In a message dated 97-10-06 20:38:25 EDT, you write:

<<snip>>
>         I think the machine dependences would be involved with the data the

>       Java program would use.  If the aforementioned Mac Java program used 
>       data residing on the Mac, then that data would have to be ported to 
>       the AS/400.  If the Mac data was in a database form then you would 
>       have to convert it to the equivalent AS/400 database form.  Java
would 
>       not do that for you.  However, if the 400 Java development dudes and 
>       dudettes have done there jobs jobs well (extremely well) then the 
>       native Java database access commands which worked on the Mac should 
>       work on the 400.

Right on!  The fallacy of C's "openness" has been not only that the language
differed slightly from platform to platform, but that database access has
varied even within the SAME platform.  An ORACLE read doesn't work the same
as or have the same functionality as a DB/2 read.  The question is, "does
JAVA have the same slight differences from platform to platform?".

Cheers,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@AOL.COM

"Be true to your teeth or your teeth will be false to you." -- Dental proverb
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