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Bruce, Thanks a lot for your input. I totally agree with you and I have the same perspective as yours. So, you basically went to each .rpgle and .dspf source code and started coding them into .jsp's and .java classes, right? Some of the .rpgle applications may be made into swing component loaded front facade's, I surmise. I think that is the best way to go rather than pushing the .rpgle code through a 'black box' and ending up with so called Java code which will take a steep learning curve to understand. I also agree with the fact that Java has grown by leaps and bounds and has awesome capabilities right now as compared to a few years ago. Oh, BTW J in AJAX is Javascript...:-0). It is a wonderful technology. Can you believe that MS floated this a few years ago? cheers, Jake. On 5/25/06, Bruce Jin <brucej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We had the same question 5 years ago. After looked at all the options we decided to code it out. Now we have hundreds of dds screens, rpg/cl in Java. Things are greatly simplified now since Java is much better and we have completely control of the code. The danger with Java is that it is very deep and rich as opposed to RPG witch is primitive and procedural. One almost has to master some degree of OOP programming to make things right. Line to line translation will hardly work. The good news is that Java has advanced greatly in the last 5 years. JDK 1.3.,4,.5 and soon 1.6 offer amazing capabilities. Also numerous common tasks are programmed for free use. For system infrastructure there is Spring framework; for database programming there are Hibernate, iBatis, Spring etc; for any other tasks look first at apache.org; for web application there are JSF, AJAX (does JA in ajax refer to Java?). Regards. Jake M wrote: > Jon and other Pro's, > So, here is a honest question. Is it a good idea to go translated Java from > RPG, which could be a hybrid of RPG and Java? Or is it good to go to 'RPG > converted to native Java' which could be understood even by our jr > programmers. I would really appreciate any kind of input on this subject. > > cheers, > > Jake. > > On 5/24/06, Jon Paris <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>> How closely does VARPG follow RPGLE? >>>> >> I think it is currently at a V5R3 level - but my copy has been screwed up >> by >> registry problems and I haven't had time to fix it - so I can't check it >> out. >> >> >> Jon Paris >> Partner400 >> >> www.Partner400.com >> www.RPGWorld.com >> >> -- >> This is the Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400 (JAVA400-L) >> mailing list >> To post a message email: JAVA400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, >> visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/java400-l >> or email: JAVA400-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx >> Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives >> at http://archive.midrange.com/java400-l. >> >> >> -- This is the Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400 (JAVA400-L) mailing list To post a message email: JAVA400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/java400-l or email: JAVA400-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/java400-l.
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