RE: EJB versus RPG/COBOL

Going with a mix of Java/.NET and RPG is the direction that the corporation
I work for is going.  We made our decision mostly on the fact that we have a
huge investment in RPG and the iSeries (and with the people that know both
of those).  If it was easy for us to move away from the iSeries I am not
sure which direction we would have taken.  

The approach we are taking is to do all GUI interfaces in VB.NET (ASP.NET)
and get at the business logic through http calls to eRPG programs using XML
as the transport.  

Aaron Bartell


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[mailto:java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Nathan M. Andelin
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Subject: Re: EJB versus RPG/COBOL


> As to the growing market in Java and Linux, that's
> all fine and good for a software vendor, but it is
> my opinion that software firms who write platform
> independent code are maximizing their profit at the
> expense of their users' productivity.

Midrange Server magazine had an interesting article about CMT Manufacturing
Systems abandoning an all Java approach in favor of a mixed Java / RPG
approach.  There is some evidence that vendors may be actually loosing money
by chasing a platform independent illusion.

There's also evidence suggesting that vendors who only write platform
independent code eventually end up promoting it only on the lowest priced
servers, namely Windows and Linux.

Nathan.



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