RE: Feedback wanted on Net.Data, E-RPG and Java... -- RPG400-L

Today is my lucky day I guess.  I'd like to respond to this.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dmosley@dancik.com [mailto:dmosley@dancik.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 11:24 AM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Feedback wanted on Net.Data, E-RPG and Java...
> 
> 
> Let me start off by saying that I am PRO Net.Data and E-RPG.

Good for you!

> 
> OK, my company just had an IBM rep come and give us a 
> presentation on using
> Java Servlets, and other Java stuff.
> His suggestion was, obviously, to use only Java Servlets for any web
> oriented programs. My understanding of Servlets are that
> they generated HTML EXACTLY the way the E-RPG does.  So, I 
> asked him why
> not simply use E-RPG.

That's EXACTLY what I've been trying to get through to folks.  It doesn't
matter what language you use for CGI programming, they all have to do one
thing.  Output dynmic HTML.  The question then comes down to, which language
are you more comfortable with and which one can get to your data easier.

>  His comment was that
> the concept of CGI in RPG won't last, and won't be supported by IBM in
> several years.  And then I asked about the use of Net.Data.
> On this, he also comment, that this use will quickly die out. 
>  And that IBM
> will probably not supported it very soon.
> I'd just like to know if anyone knows anything about this.

This is pure salesman horsesh*t.  I hope you shoveled it back into his face.
Next time they say that, ask them what you should do with all your Smalltalk
applications.  (Even if you don't have any).

> 
> Also, I was just wondering how an AS/400 would handle getting 
> hits, from
> the web like, let's say an Excite.com, or Amazon.com would.

You have to understand sites like Amazon, Excite, Yahoo, etc. use clustering
and a whole lot of servers.  So this is a hard one to say.  But, I bet a big
720 would give any cluster (50 or less NT servers) a run for it's money.

> I've only worked with companies that get very, very few hits 
> a day.  But,
> how would handle getting several hundred or thousand hits an hour?
> 

Several hundred would be no problem for a 170.  My site and a few others are
all on the same 170 and it's barely hiccuping.

> Thanks a bunch.    Long Live Brad Stone.

Wow.. I feel like the Luke Skywalker of Green Screen.  :)  I see you have
constructed a new e-RPG program... your e-skills are now e-complete.  ROTFL!

> Dave
> 
> ps. Just kidding Brad.

Ahh... I'm gonna take away your e-Jedi status then.

> 
> 
> David L. Mosley, Jr.
> System Analyst
> Dancik-On-Disk International, Ltd.
> 401 Harrison Oaks Blvd., Suite 101
> Cary, NC 27513
> 919-677-0005
> 
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