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I can see something else. Full intergration with your existing applications. 
Forget about the slow Java, use PHP as the presentation lanugage to 
interface directly to your RPG programs. PHP is much faster and easier to 
program in than Java (arguably anyway).

On 5/10/05, Jon Paris <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >> And using RPGIV as a CGI language? fergiddaboutit!
> 
> Don't misunderstand me here - I think the arrival of PHP is a good thing -
> all those Net.Data users gotta have somewhere to go!
> 
> However - I don't understand this comment. Having looked at smarty, I 
> can't
> see any significant differences between it and CGIDEV2 et al - which I 
> would
> call from RPG. Any language can be used as a scripting language with
> appropriate support and CGIDEV2, RPGsp, RSP, Cozzi's xTools, Brad's tools,
> etc. etc. supply that.
> 
> Turn it around and I might ask, since my existing logic is in RPG why
> _wouldn't_ I continue to use it?
> 
> Jon Paris
> Partner400
> 
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