[WEB400] Maybe if I rephrase the question?

["Nathan M. Andelin" <nandelin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For a single CPU server, what is the advantage of running Java and Websphere
under OS/400?  Why not just deploy the classes under the Integrated xSeries
Server, for example?

My understanding is that to access native OS/400 resources (database, data
queues, programs, etc.), java connects to OS/400 host servers via TCP/IP.
Isn't that true regardless of whether the Java components are running under
OS/400, or Windows, or Linux?  The host servers perform their job and return
results over the TCP/IP connection.  From the point of view of software
design, it as though Java were running on a different platform anyway.
Right?

Thanks,

Nathan M. Andelin
www.relational-data.com