We do have some plans to make the situation for interfacing with the
database a little easier, but I can't really talk about it at the moment.
Even still, If you want to call in to the database from PASE there already
exists libdb400. Is it binary compatible with Db2 Connect? Nope. Does it
have quirks/differences from Db2 Connect? Sure does. Is it total crap in a
lot of ways? Sure is! But it does work - the PHP, Python, Node.js, and
Ruby interfaces built on top of it are proof positive of that. If you or
others from the community want to write a .NET interface, there's plenty
of open source examples to build on from those other languages.
If you want the Db2 Connect .NET interface supported in PASE, the IBM i
team is not the one to complain to. In fact, I don't even think IBM is the
one to complain to anymore since it got spun off to Rocket Software. I
believe they own it or at least the work is contracted out to them.
I don't understand how any of this complaint ties in to XMLSERVICE or
ILEusion or any of that. As far as I'm concerned, they're completely
separate issues. And I don't understand your point about having to write
your own microservices. In fact a lot of the second half of your rant
seems like total ill-informed FUD, so I'm not going to even bother
responding to it.
I will say this, though: XMLSERVICE isn't going away and it will continue
to be part of the OS.
Again: *XMLSERVICE isn't going away*
You can continue to depend on XMLSERVICE while ILEusion gets hammered out
or even after it's hammered out for that matter. If you want to help make
XMLSERVICE better, that's welcomed as well.
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From: Richard Schoen via OpenSource <opensource@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent by: "OpenSource" <opensource-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "opensource@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <opensource@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Richard Schoen <Richard.Schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IBMiOSS] XMLSERVICE, RPGLE & Java error
Date: Tue, Dec 11, 2018 5:29 PM
Thus my point about something like officially supporting DB2 Connect on
IBMi or a more official included ibmdb2 CLI driver (not libdb400 which
appears to have its own issues) being supported for PASE and open source
language projects (like is done for IBM i Access Drivers and JT400-maybe
ibmdb2 drivers for PHP or a few others) on IBMi
Don't make us all re-invent the wheel forcing us to create our own
Microservices or rely on a new potential new microservice framework that
may or may not get completed.
Not trying to diminish the open source work Liam and other people want
to do, but if IBMi is our beloved DB machine and IBM is embracing the
open source world, give us stable DB Drivers needed to write the stuff
we need using open source languages and don't make us cobble this stuff
together.
I was actually surprised when XMLSERVICE was included in the OS, because
that adds the "officiality" to it being supported by IBM, even though as
you mentioned it has its own issues.
Like it or not XMLSERVICE has currently become a standard unless you
guys (IBM) help to lead the way to a stable alternate DB access path for
i.
Now of course I know none of the internal politics, so I know there are
always hurdles to be dealt with.
And I put my time where my mouth is as I've built supporting
infrastructure for .Net to use XMLSERVICE, but that's not always enough
to convince developers to use it because it's still considered
non-standard and endorsed.
I'm always happy to have a discussion with you or your team about this.
I don't want to just rant because lots of this stuff works well. But we
need a more consistent future for native and PASE DB access on the i
from other languages.
Regards,
Richard Schoen
Director of Document Management
e. richard.schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
p. 952.486.6802
w. helpsystems.com
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message: 1
date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 17:33:58 +0000
from: "Kevin Adler" <kadler@xxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [IBMiOSS] XMLSERVICE, RPGLE & Java error
There are a multitude of problems with XMLSERVICE. It's
over-engineered
and contains many hacks for various things thrown in willy-nilly.
This
creates a combinatorial problem of supporting it and adding new
features,
especially without breaking existing users. The project basically
started
as a hobby project by Tony to show what could be done from RPG; I
don't
think he ever intended for it to become what it has become: the
bedrock on
which customers are running their businesses from PHP, Python, Node,
.NET,
etc...
It has served fairly well, all things considered, but in order to
have
something sustainable and maintainable going forward we need to take
the
lessons learned from this project and build something leaner,
cleaner, and
all around better. This seems to be heading towards ILEusion, which
is a
project designed around RPG microservices. Personally, I'd have
rather it
be written in C, since I think it is the best language suited for
this
type of project (at least that's available on IBM i, especially
within
ILE), but AFAIK nobody from the community (including vendors who use
XMLSERVICE within their products/toolkits) stepped up to help out
with
XMLSERVICE/DB2SOCK. Meanwhile, Liam is chugging along.
----- Original message -----
From: Richard Schoen via OpenSource <opensource@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent by: "OpenSource" <opensource-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "opensource@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <opensource@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Richard Schoen <Richard.Schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IBMiOSS] XMLSERVICE, RPGLE & Java error
Date: Tue, Dec 11, 2018 10:30 AM
There seems to be some new open source projects starting up with
intent
to replace XMLSERVICE, so nothing official or near imminent I don't
think.
Personally I would say improve on XMLSERVICE rather than do a full
re-write, but I didn't create XMLSERVICE. I just use it so I don't
know
the complexity.
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