Re: Web apps on the AS/400

["Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>]

From: David Gibbs <david@midrange.com>
> >Wouldn't it be lovely if you could write a program in
> >the language that was most convenient or natural
> >or matching-your-skill-set or (...) and have that program
> >be usable from any other program? Just as it was
> >in the pre-Java days.
>
> I think that with a future version of the ILE environment you will be able
> to call Java classes directly as if they were standard programs.
>
> Correct me if I am wrong, but I think that George Farr indicated that this
> was coming in a future version of RPG (in his COMMON presentation).
>

But RPG is only one,
How about CL, COBOL, MI, REXX, SQL, C, C++, ...
And we are not just talking about RPG calling Java. What would
be better is Java calling RPG (to do business logic). Or simply
making Java a first-class citizen without any tricks. Of course
you can always fake it (in any language), but write the parameters
to a file, starting another job, in that job call the program that
reads the parameter file and produces a result file to be
read by the original program, when the temporary jobs ends.
That is NOT what I meant.

Furthermore all that is "in future" versions. Doing us no good
now.

Leif




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