RE: RPG as a Web Service Consumer

["jt" <jt@xxxxxx>]

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| [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Bartell, Aaron L.
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| Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 3:07 PM

| so I can replace it in the future.  Java is a much better fit in
| my mind for
| this kind of stuff - especially since you can write to a user space from
| Java.

Just to avoid a point of corn-fusion, if you have an RPG variable based-on a
pointer that points to a UsrSpc, then RPG can write to the UsrSpc with a
MOVE or EVAL.  I'm not sure what could be simpler?

| The only reason I have RPG doing xml parsing and acting as a web
| service is because I am tasked with not using technologies that
| others in my
| group do not know...

Policy makes a lotta sense to me.  Swapping out programming language is less
glamorous and more difficult than one would think, from experience because I
did that in the shop I used to run.  I know some (Hans, for example) have
liked the idea of re-writing ALL the custom apps (and I'm looking forward to
the new xPG compiler re-written from ground-up from scratch, as well...;-).

Also along those lines:
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/03/23/TwentyFive