RE: .NET with System i5 - where to draw the line was->RE: No givinguponSystem i (was: I'm about to give up)

From: albartell

Do you have an example of when you felt it was better to have the BL on
the i5 vs. in .NET code.

Yeah, I'd be interested in that question myself, Aaron. If you follow
Walden's analogy, he talks about getting in his car because that's what he
does, implying that .NET is simply the way he does things.

I can't really fault that, because RPG is the way I do things. And while I
can list the benefits of RPG and i5/OS up and down the chalkboard, the fact
that both Walden and Richard--arguably two of the most architecturally savvy
developers on the list--both find .NET to be a good tool means those of us
who are RPG-centric need to pay attention.

And even the decision of .NET vs. i5 for business logic is a bitsimplistic,
because when you start to consider other development platforms such as Java
and Web 2.0, things get murkier.

Note that my questions concern desktop applications and NOT ASP.NET
programs.

See, this is where you have to think it through carefully. What do you mean
when you say desktop? There are really four available architectures: true
fat client with business logic on the workstation, rich client where the
application controller is on the workstation and all the business logic is
on the host, ultra-rich client where the workstation piece is in effect a
very powerful graphics display, and Web 2.0 where you use the browser as the
ultra-rich client platform.

Joe