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

My suggestion to you would be to partner up with an RPG programmer in
your shop and work out all the details from there.  Come up with an
agreed upon interface (direct calls with ServiceProgramCall, XML
requests, Data Queues, etc) and run with it from there.  You are trying
to swallow the ocean by trying to learn RPG when you could have other
people raise a cup of salt water with you and get to the end result
quicker.

Just my opinion,
Aaron Bartell 

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Thanks a lot for your concerns Joe. I really appreciate it. Well, one
thing I wanted to let you know is that we wont be starting everything
from "scratch" if I am understanding correctly as to what you are
pointing towards. Large part of our AS400 shop will still stay in RPG
but we will be using Java mostly on the intranet and internet side for
the outside world. I will be needing to take some/lots of applications
in RPG and make Java versions of it so that I can make them work as
servlets and JSP pages. May be I could easily convert them into Java
beans and call those beans from JSP pages. In order to do this I will be
needing to understand RPG and may be write my own RPG modifications to
suit my needs and that is why I want to learn RPG so desperately. Thanks
again. Please let me know what you think, Joe. I am very open to any
kind of suggestions.

Mike.

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> > From: Mike Troxclaire
> >
> > I need to understand RPG so that when those programs get converted 
> > into Java I need to understand the Logic behind those
>RPG
> > programs so as to make sure that no garbage is coming out into Java 
> > classes.
>
>Mike, please, please, PLEASE ask the powers that be in your company to 
>contact someone about this business decision.  I for one would be 
>perfectly happy to just chat with them about the reasons for staying 
>with RPG as opposed to rewriting everything in Java.
>
>Aaron's company is currently implementing a Java interface to their 
>business logic, as are other companies.  They are finding it far more 
>productive to leverage their existing code rather than trying to 
>rewrite the entire system from scratch.
>
>Please, let your bosses know there are alternatives!
>
>Joe
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