Re: How hard is Java, really?

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Joe P. wrote:
> Not really.  CGIDEV2 actually is quite robust, as it has to re-invent
> all of the template caching and substitution that JSP has inherently
> built in.

I understand that CGIDEV2 does some things that the servlet wouldn't need to 
do, but if I understand correctly the workload management and other services 
provided by the servlet are beyond the scope of CGIDEV2;  Launching an instance 
of the RPG program for each user requesting the program, handling the 
communication between each browser and each RPG program instance, ending RPG 
program instances, automatically loading XML definitions for each application, 
dynamically generating one or more beans for each JSP, automatically mapping 
fields from RPG program data structures to beans, automatically mapping fields 
from JSP-HTML forms to RPG program data structures, dynamically evoking the 
right JSP for every output operation for every application, handling and 
reporting errors, updating the file information data structure, and so forth.

I think I agree with your original premise, though.  Given all the plumbing in 
your framework, the code that the developer has to create/maintain doesn't seem 
to be hard.

Nathan.