Re: IBM's AS/400 toolbox for JAVA

At 09:07 AM 3/22/99 +0200, you wrote:
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>> I am thinkig about using IBM toolbox for JAVA to make some client
>> applications using whatever the toolbox supports...  I am first time
>using
>> the toolbox.  Do you guys have any tip/opnion/suggestions on what to be
>> careful, what you liked etc.?
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>> Another question is that how can I access the toolbox functionalities
>from
>> Visual Basic? I heard of middleware bridge frome some companies.  Does
>> anyone know if those bridge works well?
>There is a native ActiveX 'toolbox' called "SDK for ActiveX and OLE DB"
>(formerly known as Project Lightning).  In fact it existed before the
>Java toolbox.
>See: http://www.as400.ibm.com/clientaccess/oledb/
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>Nimrod
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Thanks for the reply.  I am actually aware of project lightining.  But my
feeling is that the OLE DB stuff from IBM won't grow while JAVA toolbox
seems to be growing.  So there will be some features that you can do with
JAVA, but not in the OLE DB.  I think...

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