RE: RPG to Java Conversion

["Scott Johnson" <sjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not exactly what you are looking for based on the subject, but did you guys
consider VisualAge RPG? It would give you the GUI your users are looking for,
but all your RPG programmers can get up to speed on it a lot quicker than having
to learn Java. Plus you can re-use the back-end business logic more directly.
Only bad part is that it runs on PCs only.  It will generate Java though(no
experience with that).

-- Scott Johnson

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> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 5:04 PM
> To: Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400
> Subject: Re: RPG to Java Conversion
>
>
> Sorry for the delayed response...busy day.
>
> In a nutshell, what we are doing is Servlet/JSP for simple navigation
> and simple applications with less complex UI requirements.
> However, the
> bulk of our effort has been using Swing Applets comunicating XML over
> HTTP to Servlet(s), which may or may not be using existing
> RPG logic to
> return results to the Applet.
>
> A couple of things I didn't point out in the original email
> were that we
> are enhancing existing functionality of these legacy
> applications while
> moving parts of them to Java.  We are not just changing the
> "presentation layer".  Removing 5250 Interactive Tax is a
> benifit, but
> not the driving force.  We (my company) want to place more
> importance on
> an intuitive, yet robust UI.  We are a software vendor, and
> compete with
> other solutions based on Windows and also Unix.  UI is considered a
> weakness of our system (yes, this is a perceived weakness).  We might
> have been out of business several years ago, if not for
> Seagull's JWalk
> product (screen-scraper).  I don't like JWalk very much, but
> it served
> it's purpose.  It gave a better impression to perspective
> customers than
> did green-screen.  We have passed the limit of the JWalk product, and
> Java is our next step (albeit large).  Applets give us the
> advantage of
> a Rich GUI without having to install/deploy/upgrage each and every PC
> that needs to use the software.
>
> Ken Kennedy
>
>