RE: Java and XML

If you know Java go with Java without a doubt.  You will find that RPG won't
be keeping up with the new XML technologies like it should, even though
there are a handful of parsers out there.  Believe me, I have been through
the pits trying to make RPG and XML work.  I have definitely succeeded, but
that is for the present, and who knows what new technologies will come in
the future.  

The biggest hang-up with having RPG use XML is how much you can have in a
variable.  I have done quite a few work arounds to make XML easy to use
within an RPG program by using User Spaces and pointers.  If all you need to
do is pass low-level XML information from one point to another and you have
a lot of RPG knowledge in your shop then you could definitely make RPG and
XML work for you.  But what happens when you need to use XSLT, SOAP, new
versions of XSD, etc.  IBM won't be updating their procedural language
parsers before their popularity language, Java.

HTH,
Aaron Bartell

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Molinaro [mailto:smolinaro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 12:08 PM
To: java400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Java and XML


I am delving into the world of Java at this point mainly for it's good
relationship with XML. I don't know however if this the best way on the
iSeries though. I know there are parsing APIs that can be used from
within RPG and there are XML DB2 Extenders that we can buy and learn how
to use too. In your opinion(s), should I use one of those 2 or should I
go about this the way I think I should, with pure Java running on the
iSeries? As I'm sure the scenario is the same with a lot of you, we are
being asked by many of our partners to start transmitting/receiving data
in XML format. I've already butchered through one project using RPG
where I build and parse, but as you can imagine that was not much fun. I
have 3 more projects for similar requests and I would like to go about
the right way. 




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