Re: RPG to Java Conversion

[HankHeath@xxxxxxx]

Ken,

I managed a transition of a unemployment tax system from AS/400 to Java and 
JSP using DB2 on Linux servers. The most difficult parts of the rewrite were: 
(1) obtaining detailed business rules from the old RPG code, and (2) 
communicating to old green screen users about how the new system would work as 
opposed 
to how they were used to doing business. 

On top of this was the expectation from management that Java development 
cycle should be much faster than RPG. 

Contact me directly for details, as some of them may be too sensitive for a 
broadcast.

- Hank Heath

In a message dated 7/22/2003 7:49:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
TitanRebel@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:


> My company is going through a transition.  Myself and a few others have 
> shown them (upper management) what Java is capable of doing, and they 
> like it.  We are an ISV, and all of our source is CL or RPG.  We are not 
> looking to move away from the iSeries platform, and we are not looking 
> to replace major business logic already mature and working.  We are 
> wanting to replace the presentation layer with Java/HTML.  We have about 
> 35 RPG developers, and 4 Java developers.
> 
> My boss wants to review several plans on how we are going to transition 
> RPG developers to Java.  Again, we are not wanting to transition all 35 
> to Java.  Do any of you know of any literature (white papers, documents, 
> web sites, etc...) available that outlines this type of transition?  Any 
> success stories?  Any literature would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ken Kennedy
>