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Joe,

What i actually meant was, is that the OS/400 architecture is based on an
abstraction layer. Just like the JVM. So if you just run the JVM as any
other program (like it is on other platforms too), then the Java VM is
executed within another "VM", which is not efficient.

If you deploy a pure Java application (e.g. with websphere) the AS/400 is
not the most efficient.
A more "bare bones" OS like Linux is more efficient, simply because the JVM
is executed directly as machine code.

IBM had the chance, beginning of the 90's in the previous century, to
integrate smalltalk within the OS.
They had plans to do that.

Now we have a VM running on top of SLIC.


On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:41 AM, john e <jacobus1968@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



I'm switching over to gmail.

Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:29:25 -0500
From: joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: RPG - I'm not dead yet!

I'm not sure how much time I should spend debating with someone who
comes onto a list about RPG programming on IBM i and proceeds to bash
the platform and say that RPG isn't even a language. Clearly you don't
like the topic of this list, so what do you hope to achieve with your
posts? More to the point, though, is that I don't understand your
comments. Like this one:

Java isn't well integrated (not at all actually).

What is this supposed to mean? On what other platform is Java better
"integrated" and why? Certainly not Microsoft. Heck, prior to RPG I
didn't even know another language that could directly call Java. I mean
you can usually use JNI, but only RPG has direct support for prototyping
functions and methods and invoking them. But in any case, saying Java
isn't well integrated on the IBM i is pretty much the opposite of
reality as far as I can tell.

Please, let's start with this one simple statement and then maybe we can
move on to some of the others.

Joe
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