Re: What makes Java so special?

Chris,

In a message dated 97-11-22 17:25:12 EST, you write:

<<snip>>
> So, your application issues a request to an object broker which translates
>  that request off to the target system. The use of object brokers, as you
>  point out, insulate your client machine from it's target. But that doesn't
>  mean that your client application is platform independant. It could be
>  compiled C code on a CPM machine. So, while the client code can't move, it
>  doesn't care what kind of machine or application is issuing a response
since
>  it is using an object model standard for it's requests. 

Oh, I didn't mean to imply that the client object should be
platform-specific.  I just thought that your "broker", for example, would
call an ODBC server as a "generic" database server _BUT_ could _also_ call an
APPC connect such as ESS/400 in an instance where the AS/400 was the target
to improve performance.  Wrong?

Regards,

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

"I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up." -- Tom
Lehrer (or perhaps, the CA/400 support office at IBM?)
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