RE: Using OO concepts in RPG

["Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)" <ALBartell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<Martin>
Please don't tell me about Open Source stuff.  Please.  Thats still
hobbyware.  No professional organization is going to stake its data
retrieval on a product where they can't pick up  a phone and talk to a peer
in upper management.
</Martin>

I am guessing you have had some bad experiences with Open Source, I have had
good success - for instance I use jDOM for my Java XML parsing and Tomcat
for my Java Servlets.  I would argue that there is more support out there
for Tomcat(Open Source) than Websphere($$), but that is just a guess on my
part.

If you are talking about XML technologies being Open Source and hobbyware,
well, we had better get used to that, because that is how many/some of the
XML technologies get started.

RPG just needs an easy pathway into these technologies.  The RPG user
community has gotten us to a certain point with some nice service programs,
but I would like to see much of the XML technologies tied more closely to
the compiler.  Then your options are wide open as far as what you can do
with RPG, or rather how RPG can use other technologies.

Aaron Bartell