Re: The case for Java on (or out) of the iSeries

Luis,

We are an iSeries modernization vendor with hundreds of customers using Java
on the iSeries. Here is a customer of ours in the UK that developed a B2C
site with Java running on their iSeries:
http://www.indespension.co.uk/b2c/jsp/home.jsp

Sometimes, our customers have slower/older iSeries and Java, in that case,
performs better running on another server and accessing the iSeries DB
remotely. This is a sample application of that setup:
http://www.mrcwindows.com/mrcjava/servlet/CBB2E.I00010s

They can continue to run remotely indefinitely, or they can move those apps
back to the iSeries if they ever upgrade their iSeries hardware and/or
memory.

Plenty of iSeries shops are running Java, but smaller shops with smaller
resources often get help with tools like m-Power from mrc to accomplish it.

Regards,
Bruce

Luis Colorado wrote:

Hello, all!
We have an ongoing discussion about using Java in the future to revamp some or all of our applications running on or with the iSeries. Some people keeps bringing up the notion that all the companies that tried moving to Java on the iSeries failed, and that nobody uses Java in the enterprise.
Is that the case? Is that an obsolete notion? I think that there are many companies using Java for their companies on Unix and Windows machines, but I'm not so sure about the iSeries. I know that few would attempt building a business application with Java from scratch on the iSeries, but there are many tools and applications using and generating Java these days.
What is your experience (if any) with them? Should Java tools, applications, or generators, be discarded as options to revamp our COBOL/Synon systems?
Thank you all for your opinions.

Luis Colorado
Applications Development
FMS Solutions
(410) 761-9400 x1233