Re: java to rpg problem

[jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx]

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Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 15:49:28 AST
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Subject: Re: java to rpg problem

No programming language, not Java, not even PL/I, will give you something for

nothing. Sure, it's possible to rewrite some legacy program to use a Java

front-end. Or rewrite it entirely in Java, to use back-end code from the

Toolbox (or other canned client-server link). But if you've got RPG back-end

code written to run on an AS/400 (or ILE C, or MI, or EPM Fortran, or

whatever), then that code is going to have to still run on the 400, and your

Java front-end is going to have to communicate with it, whether it does so

through the Toolbox (or some other canned client-server link), or whether
you
write your own socket-based client-server link. We have stuck to the
latter
route, since our Java-based products began development long before
the Toolbox
existed, but you're completely free to choose whatever
alternative works best
for you.


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J.Lampert