Java Application strategies for the AS/400

This book gives you real-world strategies for the development
of AS/400 Java applications. Written specifically for AS/400 RPG
programmers, the focus is on business-programming issues for Java
application design and programming. Unlike the myriad other books available
on Java, this title presumes readers have no C or C++ knowledge or
experience. This book describes the structure and the intent of the Java
programming language and why Java applications developed with structure
techniques used in RPG applications will fail. Also detailed are the
benefits and caveats of each of the three Java application architectures:
applets, applications, and servlets. You will find out how to recognize the
three phases of OOP: encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism. And you
can learn how to apply standard OO strategies for the development of AS/400
Java applications, create hierarchies of Java classes using OO inheritance
in the development of business-object models, and encapsulate business
entities that are stored in DB2/400 into Java classes using
object-to-relational strategies. You also will be able to create Java GUIs
using the Abstract Window Toolkit components of Java 1.1, create robust
GUIs using the industrial-strength components of Java 1.2's Java Foundation
Classes, and understand the Java GUI replacement strategy for the highly
successful AS/400 subfile paradigm. In addition, you can find out how to
access DB2/400 data using record-level access, make Java applications
interoperate with RPG and COBOL programs, and access DB2/400 data using
Java Database Connect (JDBC) and the Java SQL interface. In addition,
you'll learn how to properly handle Java errors and create
application-specific Java error classes and use the Java language's
superior strategy for documenting code. Finally, you'll discover how to
dynamically create hypertext documentation from that code. Included is a
companion CD-ROM that contains all the source code presented in the book,
the complete source for Midrange Computing's Object to Relational framework
classes, a .jar file that contains the package of Java classes for Midrange
Computing's Object to Relational framework classes, a Sun Java Development
Kit, and an Inprise JBuilder 2.0, Trial Version. 400 pages. (Level:
Intermediate to Advanced).