RE: "Webulating" RPG

["Popeil, Russ" <Russ.Popeil@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jon

It has been my experience that most shops do not have time to learn new
things. Must less switch from a procedural language to an OO one like
JAVA. If you provide the capability  to create JAVA byte code from the
VARPG for client side apps and maybe from RPGIV for Server apps. I
believe many a shop with the most minimal of effort would be able to
take advantage of write once run anywhere paradigm. 

Or at least when management decides to give such a project (because
someone in Senior management read about JAVA in Forbes or Newsweek) to
an overly worked in-house staff. they will truly be able to pull it off.
Even with VARPG there is still a learning curve going form procedural to
event driven, just a lot less to learn than a complete development
environment and a new language. 

For those of us more inclined to learn a new language, I believe that
looking at system generated (*ugly) Java code would be of little or no
use.  IMHO I would take a small simple application and write it 1st in
VARPG generating byte code and then try to duplicate the functionality
rewriting it in native JAVA.  Not everyone would be willing to go down
this difficult path. IMHO this would be the way for me to best learn
JAVA. I also understand that someone in the IBM Toronto labs is working
on an upcoming book entitled "JAVA for RPG programmers". This should be
a good method to get up to speed on JAVA. 

If you need more information please let me know 

Russ Popeil
Avnet Computer - Solutions That Mean Business
Office: 516-677-9346, Fax: 516-677-0296, Beeper: 516-786-5846
eMail:  Russ.popeil@avnet.com
http://www.ac.avnet.com




+---
| This is the Midrange System Mailing List!
| To submit a new message, send your mail to "MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com".
| To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com.
| Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com
+---