iSeries Toolkit at SourceForge

Hey this sounds interesting.  How long has this been going on?  I just went
out there and read the summary.  What is Ant?  Cocoon?

I agree with your statement that doing your XML experiment in Java would cut
out about 90% of shops.  Some places (like here) forbid it.  What needs to
happen IMO is for Java to be brought into / merged into the 'native'
environment as just another language.  Right now it's its own world.  Like
EPM.  I have the same idea about PASE although I have no direct experience
with it.  Separate environments.  Native has all this nice object
security/adopt authority, work management, etc. going on.

Tom

  -----Original Message-----
 From: David Morris [mailto:David.Morris@plumcreek.com]
 Subject: Re: More RPG/Java Questions

|  I am doing this as an experiment. I would attempting to
 |  create a simple interface for RPG programmers to use
 |  when they need to create an XML document. Right up your
 |  eRpg alley actually. I want to shelter the RPG programmer
 |  from the JDOM API.
 |
 |  Yes it could be a Java App, but that cuts out about 90%
 |  of AS/400 shops. I think there are a lot more V5R1 shops
 |  than there are shops with Java programmers. I intend to
 |  publish all of this as open source at:
 |
 |  http://iseries-toolkit.sourceforge.net
 |
 |  The long range goal is to give strict RPG shops access to
 |  the powerful publishing capabilities of Cocoon and other
 |  Java based products.
 |
 |  David Morris