Kriss,
copy 3000-L,
 
You said:
 
>Good to hear from you.
 
>I am trying to understand future directions for C++ and Java.
 
>Can you explain how you might use Java, C++, C, Cobol, and Transact
>together?
 
You bet !!.....  Unfortunately right now I am in the middle
of the usual desperate end-of-the-fiscal-year search
for $$ to cover first quarter of FY97....  Actually this year
the search is even more desperate than usual....  But
that's an in-house problem.......
 
Anyway, yours is a question that cannot be answered
well in just two sentances;  it might take a day or two to
pull together what I consider a "good" answer (don't
worry;  I won't write Gone With the Wind either).
 
With some assistance from our in-house C and C++
expert Steve Dirickson, I think we can answer well for
the Transact, C, and C++ client-server system our site is
doing.  While I would think some of the general concepts
would apply to COBOL users too, we don't do COBOL.....
Maybe some of the COBOL partisans would like to throw
in their $0.02 for that compiler.......  Hello Jeanette and/or
Frank ??
 
For that matter, if there is anyone else out there who has
any good ideas in this area, I encourage contribution....
I would think that why and how to interface existing high-
value data systems to the brave new webby world and
Java would be of general interest to a lot of users,
regardless of which specific compiler is involved on
MPE/iX.  I don't think too many sites will want to throw out
everything they have written in their favorite language on
the 3000 and redo everything from scratch in Java or C++
or whatever, even if that becomes technically possible.
The smoothest possible addition and integration of an
efficient client-server / browser front end on our Transact -
Image/SQL server is what we are looking for........
 
Back soon,
thanks,
 
Ken Sletten