Re: Informix 4GL to Java Migration Tool and Y2K

On Wed, 24 Jun 1998 18:05:08 +0100, Peter Lancashire <Peter.Lancashire.PL1@bayer.co.uk> wrote: >It all sounds wonderful. But that's a product manager's job. Is there >anyone out there who has used it and still believes it is wonderful? Of >course, it still won't be object-oriented, just in a potentially >object-oriented language. We are looking at it. They seem to create a Java class out of every module in your 4GL source code with every function in that module implemented as methods in the class. Lately we have written our code in separate modules in such a way that these classes can actually be usefull. Sometimes we realy want to instantiate more than one object from these "classes". That's of course not possible in 4GL (a potentially very interesting and probably not very hard to do extention of 4GL that someone should look into). After the code is converted it may not be too hard to use the classes, possibly with some minor modifications, in a truly object oriented design. We haven't realy looked at the GUI part of the product yet. They claim to construct intelligent classes for that as well, but that remains to be seen for us. However the code we are most interested in converting is plain batch oriented programs where even the issue of an object oriented design isn't all that big. Nils Myklebust NM Data AS Norway E-mail: Nils.Myklebust@nmdata.com FAQ at: http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html (Now with ODBC info under "Third party products".)