RE: New JAVA Resource -- From an AS/400 Perspective -- BPCS-L

No problem with the self promotion here Joe.  Your efforts can only help
us all.  I only hope that I can productively contribute when its time.

Chris Hillock
REAL Applications - Industry Solutions Group

-----Original Message-----
From: pluta@nexgensoftware.com [mailto:pluta@nexgensoftware.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 1999 7:37 AM
To: BPCS-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: New JAVA Resource -- From an AS/400 Perspective


>There's a new JAVA resource out there, from an AS/400 perspective, from a guy
>that helped architect the future of BPCS (but he says don't hold that against
>him, they only did half of what he wanted ;-)).  Check out www.zappie.net if
>you get a chance.  He hopes for it to become the future for us "old guys"...

Thanks for the plug, Dean.

I started out on a S/3 mod 15D back in the 70's, and I've watched this
marketplace change.  I looked into all the new languages (Pascal, C,
C++,
Smalltalk) as they came out.  However, until Java I didn't find anything
even
CLOSE to being able to be used for business applications.  We made do
with C for
the Assistants, but it was sheer torture (Are you listening, Mr. Gibbs?
Do you
remember the PAIN?).  If we had had Java when we did the Assistants, it
would
have been SO much easier.  And had we had it during the TIME THAT SHALL
NOT BE
MENTIONED, we might even have gotten SOM out the door.

With IBM's Java Toolbox for the AS/400 anybody who wants graphical
access to
their BPCS data can do it via Java in a just a few minutes (literally).
But you
have to LEARN Java, and that's what my site is for.  Not long technical
discussions of the merits of interfaces versus multiple inheritance or
battles
over the need for a "goto" instruction.  Instead, I want to get RPG
programmers
to install Java and start accessing AS/400 data as quickly as possible.

Warning: the site is just starting.  The tutorials and free code (the
free code
should show up this weekend <smile>) will hopefully help us all expand
our
programming skills and get on to the next level of our careers, but the
site is
still just developing.  But all of you can help.  Check out the site,
then take
the time to Email me and let me know what YOU want to see (use the Email
link on
the site rather than here at Nexgen - my site address is
webmaster@zappie.net).

This ain't a for-profit deal, it's for us to help each other.  Heck, I
don't
even have any sponsor banners <grin>.

P.S. Hope I didn't offend anyone with this pompously self-serving
message
<grin>.  I promise it'll be the last time I mention the site here...

Joe "Zappie" Pluta


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