Re: eRPG - RPG-CGI

[boldt@xxxxxxxxxx]

Rajeev wrote:
>But I was wondering if instead of only pushing
>WebSpehere and Net.Data, we should integrate Java,
>Perl etc. to write web-apps. Why can't we write Java
>programs as simple as we write RPG on As/400? Also can
>we use Java classes through something like prototyping
>in RPG?

Calling Java classes from RPG will be easier in a future
release of ILE RPG.

Calling RPG from Java can be simplified quite a bit by
using PCML.  Check out
<http://www.midrangecomputing.com/anje/99/04/art1.htm>
for a good summary of PCML.

>And the green screen must go. It really is making RPG
>programmers frustrated.

We certainly are looking into this and hopefully we'll
be able to offer some good stuff.

>
>There can be many possibilities of exploring.

Exactly!

Cheers!  Hans

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com


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