Re: rpg conversion tools to java

["James W. Kilgore" <email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ken,

I was just composing my reply when David's post showed up and I'm in his 
camp on this one.

I was approached with a similar project recently and my first reaction 
was "Yes it probably -can- be done, but..."

I remember the S/34 OCL to S/38 CL conversion program and after running 
a few procedures through it we made the business decision to write from 
scratch. It did result in some very ugly code that would have been very 
difficult to maintain.

If you are in a time crunch to get the conversion done, like moving to a 
new platform, you may run the conversion just to get up and running, but 
include in your budget for the next three years to visit and write from 
scratch every component converted.

MHO,
J. Kilgore



David Gibbs wrote:
>
<<snip>>
> I would ask, while it is possible to convert a RPG program into Java, would
> you really want to?  The languages take totally different approaches to
> basic concepts (database, storage, etc).  The resultant Java code would
> probably be horrendously ugly and next to impossible to understand & modify.
>
> I suspect for this type of conversion, a total rewrite of the application is
> probably in order ... 
<<snip>>