RE: Mixed RPG/Java performance (EXAMPLE CODE)

<Joe>
I'm glad you don't care about performance, because your performance is
going to be terrible.  And I guess I don't understand why Java is more
maintainable than COBOL.  They're programming languages, and frankly
Java sucks at processing business rules or even the simple act of doing
decimal precision mathematics; any business rules I've seen written in
COBOL are much more readable than the same code written in Java.
</Joe>

I have heard this a couple times now from different mouths.  I myself
haven't really coded business logic in Java just because I haven't had the
need (RPG has done that for me, or I have done minimal business logic in
Java).  

Because I am purely curious, what exactly are the points that make Java a
poor language for business logic?

I often make statements like wishing RPG had a lot of what Java or any other
more feature rich language has to offer (over loading, custom data types,
etc).  But maybe those aren't good things to have in a business logic
scenario.


Aaron Bartell