Frequently Asked Questions
- Does RPG-XML Suite have the ability to call a web service on another system?
- I need to put a web service on my iSeries for other programmers to call. Can RPG-XML Suite do this?
- How does RPG-XML Suite compare to other ways of creating web services on the iSeries?
- Where does RPG-XML Suite get installed - On a PC?
- Do I need to know Java or any other programming language to leverage web services with RPG-XML Suite?
- I am a COBOL programmer. Will RPG-XML Suite work for me?
- What does RPG-XML Suite cost?
- What are the machine requirements for running RPG-XML Suite?
- I'm getting a lot of pressure to go with Java or .NET to do all of our web services. How do I present RPG-XML Suite as the ideal solution to go with?
- Initial learning of the language can easily take up to a year to become efficient
- Software lifecycle change management needs to change rapidly to facilitate the new objects (i.e. Java objects, .NET objects)
- Deployment needs to be altered to facilitate additional application servers (i.e. Websphere App Server, IIS, etc.)
- Your quality assurance staff needs to be educated in how to test/implement/tweak in the language environments
- If Java is chosen, a machine upgrade is most likely inevitable because of processor and memory consumption
- If .NET is chosen, a separate machine is needed, which increases failure points
- RPG programmers have a wealth of business logic knowledge that cannot be easily duplicated in the hiring of a Java or .NET programmer
- By having Java or .NET front-end a web service making calls to RPG programs, two programmer’s schedules will need to be coordinated any time debugging a web service is necessary
- Using RPG-XML Suite means ALL your code is in RPG and it ALL resides on your iSeries
- If .NET is chosen, you have to license your developers for all the necessary tooling to accomplish web services (i.e. Visual Studio). With RPG-XML Suite you can use your existing toolsets that are already paid for (i.e. SEU, WDSC, etc.)
- Do you offer a support contract?
- Is there any way I can see if RPG-XML Suite is a good fit withought committing to the purchase?
- Which xml standard does RPG-XML Suite support?
- Is Java needed for RPG-XML Suite to run? And if so, what version?
- Your product sounds familiar. Where could I have seen it?
- iSeries xml is a hot topic in my shop lately. Where can I go to learn more about it from an RPG programmer’s perspective?
- How much storage space is needed to install RPG-XML Suite on the iSeries?
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