Re: How hard is Java, really?

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Nathan Andelin
>
> Also not wanting to answer for Joe, but in an earlier message I think you
> asked me why I use RPG instead of COBOL, C, or REXX, and the simplest
> answer is that RPG is the most prevalent of the ILE languages and the one
> that IBM has been modernizing the most, but if RPG weren't available then
> I'd probably go with COBOL for business applications.

I think I concur here, and I'll go back and address Dave's comment directly
in a moment.


> I think Joe meant to say he generated JSPs from display file DDS, but I'm
> not sure.

No, I was talking about the fundamental way that JSP works: the JSP
container takes the HTML and generates either a .java file which it then
compiles it into a .class file, or it directly generates the bytecode for
the .class file.  In either case, the JSP is converted on the fly into a
binary class file.

Joe