December Article by Ted Holt: The Death of OPNQRYF
Dave wrote: "Doesn't the JDK for OS/400 provide SQL access? I could have sworn I read something to that effect in the "Java for RPG Programmers" book?!?" Yeah, JDBC is SQL. For all practical purposes, SQL is the only database access in Java globally. If you're referring to this statement: "By the way, does anybody have any idea why a Java program would only work against SQL Server or Oracle, but not DB2?" then that's my point... product developers end up having to choose how many variations of their SQL statements they're going to support by specifying specific databases the product will work with. None of the brave new world people want to admit that... they just want to convince you to write your "open" software on their platform... Ralph ralph@ee.net
Dave wrote: "Doesn't the JDK for OS/400 provide SQL access? I could have sworn I read something to that effect in the "Java for RPG Programmers" book?!?" Yeah, JDBC is SQL. For all practical purposes, SQL is the only database access in Java globally. If you're referring to this statement: "By the way, does anybody have any idea why a Java program would only work against SQL Server or Oracle, but not DB2?" then that's my point... product developers end up having to choose how many variations of their SQL statements they're going to support by specifying specific databases the product will work with. None of the brave new world people want to admit that... they just want to convince you to write your "open" software on their platform... Ralph ralph@ee.net
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