RE: 520 pricing structure

> From: albartell
> 
> I agree that your apps probably run faster than any other approach out
> there
> while developing on an iSeries (I saw it first hand). And that is
mostly
> because you write your own plumbing and don't have any additional
things
> you don't need.  I just don't like how you setup your tiers (multiple
> languages) and I don't care to argue about it because we both have our
> minds set.

What kills me about your statement is that it does indeed run faster
than any other approach out there, and yet there is only ONE Java class
that needs to be modified, and it has the following in it:

// Add definition for type AALI (pending account) page
types.put("AALI",
        new AppObjectType(
                "AALI",
                new Dc400Field[] {
                        new Dc400CharacterField("AALICMD", 10),
                        new Dc400CharacterField("AALIUSER", 50),
                },
                false,
                "/app/AALI.jsp"
        ));

Do you think this is too complex for any self-respecting RPG programmer?

Here it is in a nutshell: the AALI page has two fields, AALICMD and
AALIUSER.  AALICMD is 10 characters, AALIUSER is 50 characters.  "AALI"
is the key to the message type, the word "false" says you cannot have
more than one of these messages, and the "/app/AALI.jsp" specifies which
page to display.

One client is writing a utility to generate this class; it's not rocket
science.  And then all of the business logic - ALL of it - is written in
RPG.

Joe