Mike Yawn wrote:
>
>
> The web pages for Java on MPE/iX have been extensively updated, and
> are now online at http://jazz.external.hp.com/src/java.
...
>   - The documentation page is pretty thin right now, with a
>     three-year-old tutorial on using Java on MPE.  We hope to
>     expand this area in the future.
...

Don't know how to get there, but seems to me what "we" need is a cookbook of
examples of doing things and a set of "model" IS building blocks we can
download, then customized, and finally rewrite when we know enough.  I'm
thinking of the kinds of things that helped establish how to do vplus and
image calls back twenty plus years.

Just thinking off the top of my head, and without really knowing enough about
java, perhaps the model should include:
1. A applet GUI frontend with a login and a few sample and simple data search
and entry capabilities.
2. A network socket server to handle authentication and hand off applet
requests to a business rules process.
3. A business rules server process, which hands off database updates.
4. A database update process (using at least one master and one detail) to
find, get, put, and update an Image database.

Parts 2 and 3 could be replaced by a web server with servlets.

The example could be to maintain a music library or whatever.

Java and other modern languages provide a hugh number of alternatives - but
what we need is a model, a simple example to follow that select from that
hugh variety. An example that can be used as a model. It needs to provide a
relativly complete IS solution we can relate to, not just a narrow focus on
one unconnected thing after another.  It should show good technique in object
orientation, too, to help us all in thinking right and as a jumping off point
for our own code.

Hope this helps. Others feel free to jump in, jump on, etc.
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Richard Gambrell
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