Re: Free OS/400

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Larry,

You wrote:
>  Most of Ops Nav is already written in Java. All new pieces for the
>past couple years have been and the base parts that were not are being
>slowly converted to Java. I even got one of the OpsNav team to agree
>that eventually it will probably even run on OS/2! <vbg>

The core components are in C++ and even the Java components make JNI calls 
to windows DLLs.  It would be nice if OpsNav were pure Java but I think 
that will be a long time coming unless AS/400 customers start demanding 
that OpsNav run on on non-Windows platforms.

The Enterprise Toolkit for AS/400 which is a repackaged version of of the 
Java Toolkit and is supplied with the Enterprise version of VAJ uses 
Windows DLLs.   Even the Java parts don't work under OS/2.  If you actually 
build the install files and get VAJ on OS/2 to install it and fix the bugs 
and use debug to correct one bad value then you get a message on the 
console via System.out.println to the effect that "this don't work on 
OS/2".  Bastards!  The only reason it doesn't work is because they couldn't 
be bothered making it work.

Netserver which is supposed to be an SMB server only talks to windows 
clients.  It has code to recognize the client and refuses connections from 
OS/2 Peer and Linux Samba yet both those talk quite happily to an NT server 
via SMB.  I'm very sure MS aren't doing anything special to support OS/2 
and Samba yet they work.  So what is the problem with the Netserver 
developers?

I'm not holding my breath for a pure Java version of OpsNav.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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