RE: Alternate Platform for RPG

["Mike Haston ** Data" <MJH@xxxxxxx>]

Not to add to getting off track, but I gave up on Java after I took an 
introductory course at a well know university and the 
guru/consultant/professor, who refused to explain much to the non-OO 
programmers, couldn't get one of his example programs to compile on half the 
classes PC's.  I'm lazy, I like not having to worry about paths and all the 
overhead.



-----Original Message-----
From: Bartell, Aaron L. (TC) [mailto:ALBartell@taylorcorp.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 11:12 AM
To: 'rpg400-l@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Alternate Platform for RPG


>Replace native rpg by visual basic or java.
>The 2 slowest languages.

Just wanted to comment on this even though I think you mostly said it in
jest.  Java performs very well when it has all of its classes loaded and
when you don't have to start the JVM.  You can achieve this on the iSeries
by using Tomcat or another application server, WAS maybe. . .  The first
call is going to be the only one that is slow and after that it performs as
well as RPG.  I have not done any sophisticated timing on this, so it is
based on human perception and not actual programmatical time-testing.

I agree that calling Java directly from RPG is incredibly slow though.  I
have yet to find a way to make this happen faster.

Aaron Bartell



-----Original Message-----
From: Stephane Leon [mailto:s.leon@isys.ch]
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 7:44 AM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Alternate Platform for RPG


Replace native rpg by visual basic or java.
The 2 slowest languages.

Are you kidding..:-))))

--
Stephane

>Hello RPG/400 User,

>This is a survey to determine how many RPG/400 users are interested in
executing their applications on Windows >>>
>platforms, replacing RPG by Visual BASIC as the application language, or on
UNIX/Linux platforms replacing RPG by Java. >And if so, which relational
database would be preferred.

>If you are interested, please reply to this email noting your preferences.

>Thank you.

>Vladimir Stepanoff

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