RE: access as/400 database files w/Visual Basic 6

> From: Walden H. Leverich
>
> As for ease of development -- I'm sure this will start a war -- but I've
> found ASP to be extremely easy to learn.

I think the war has cooled down over the last year or so, Walden.  ASP is
easy to use.  It's MS specific, but these days that's not a huge issue.
It's just one you have to be aware of.  I prefer JSP because done correctly
they really fly - once the JSP is compiled, it's basically sitting in memory
and spinning out data.  Of course, you can mung it up with a bunch of junk,
but you can do that with ASP too.

JSP, however, requires at least a little Java knowledge and a servlet
engine.  And the loading of the data is (usually) on the host.  I forget how
exactly ASP s traslated - it's all in the browser isn't it?  If so, that
means a lot of load on the client, but personally I kind of like the idea of
making the client do the work.  Then again, a properly designed JSP
implementation can have the web server on a separate box than the business
logic.  I have one client using Tomcat on FreeBSD calling redeployed RPG
programs on their AS/400.  The 400 is now entirely batch, with no WebSphere
overhead.

In any event, I think the deployment language is a matter of personal
preference.  As long as the architecture separates the UI portion of the
deployment from the business logic (be it through stored procedures, sockets
or data queues) then I'm happy.

Joe