Re: Java tools

Booth

At 12:40 AM 11/19/97 -0500, you wrote:
>on 11/18/97at 10:21 PM, the Great and Grand  Wazir peteh@earth.inwave.com
>(Pete Hall) said:
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It's still pretty new, but IBM's Visual Age for Java
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>Can an RPG programmer actually write programs with VA Java?  Or will the
>calculations need to be done with C++?

If I understand your question, the answer is definitely Yes. A lot of the
code that's generated in the visual environment is navigational. You still
may need to write some supporting stuff, like a bean that converts
centigrade to fahrenheit and returns the value to a text bean, e.g.

These calcs will look something like the freeform stuff in RPG IV. All the
expected C-like operations are there, except for exponentiation (which is
handled with a 'power' method)—like +, -, *, /, ++, --, +=, etc.

A lot of my questions have been answered by looking at various things that
IBM has on the Web. There's a set of very nice screen cams that go through
using VA for Java. Get 'em at
<http://www.software.ibm.com/ad/vajava/vajscdemo.html>. There's also an
online Java course (free) that's quite nice. You can get to it at
<http://www.ibm.com/Java/education/intro/>. There's also lots of stuff at
AS/400 Partners in Development, <http://www.softmall.ibm.com:80/as400/>.

More than you wanted to know?

HTH

Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55401
(612) 371-1111 x480


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