Re: Calling Java from RPG - CLASSPATH Problem?

["mlazarus@xxxxxxxx" <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

Shannon,

>And I also feel, again, that IBM didn't do AS/400 programmers any favor by
hiding the complexity of the nitty gritty of programming behind so much in
RPG.  For example,  a  CHAIN in RPG is easy.   Setting up an input stream,
reading bytes of data from a file, etc...piece by piece, the way you have to
do it in other languages such as Java, is so much more complex by
comparison. AS/400 programmers have not had to deal with that complexity,
they simply execute a CHAIN.  And because of that, when they want to move
to/try a new language, there's a tremendous learning curve.  It would have
been easier to learn it all from the beginning.

 You should be THANKING IBM, not chastising them.  Just because other
languages try to be so general purpose that they make it difficult to do
everyday business functions doesn't mean that the language that was
designed for business processing is bad!!

 It's interesting that even the most staunch OO advocates seem to be
against the encapsulation given by the RPG opcodes, yet have no problem
with the concept of processing I/O in bytestream format...

 -mark

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