Archive for October, 2006
Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
Machine-Level Programming on iSeries
An AS/400 (or iSeries, or i5, or whatever IBM wishes to call it tomorrow) has two machine-levels; the upper known as MI and the lower known as CISC/RISC.
A programmer could code at Machine Interface (MI) level to achieve what one could not do at RPG level. This is old news, but for many RPG programmers […]
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Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
Google Search API
Google has a web service that allows developers to use Google search from within their own applications.
Using SOAP, a protocol for XML-based message exchange over HTTP layer, one could easily integrate an existing application with Google’s powerful web search capability. Web services can easily be accessed in .NET and Java applications. While it’s possible to […]
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Monday, October 16th, 2006
Java Vector in ILE RPG
Here’s something that’s totally not recommended from performance perspective but nevertheless cool to explore: Use Java Vector function in RPG.
There are obvious disadvantages to this idea, but say we’re building a long running system that doesn’t care too much about performance. Wouldn’t a Vector work great in RPG just so that the average programmer doesn’t […]
