Re: Yahoo - Informix Revitalizes 4GL Application Development Too

Nils Myklebust wrote: > > What we do now for reports, invoice creations and other batch type > processes, is to create a GUI front end in Java. Then we strip off the > small front end (if any) in these 4GL programs and start them from > Java using RMI. This is just greate. It works nice and gives you a > true GUI. > As we have time for it we recreate programs fully in Java, but still > use RMI to execute the heavy part on the server. > <big snip> Java may be great but it's a 3.5 generation language. I4GL is maybe a 3.9 GL. We just want something with a future that reduces the number of lines of code required. It's that simple (and that complicated) :-). Oh, and spare me from keyhole programming of mini components through a GUI. -- Peter Lancashire Information Systems Specialist, Bayer plc Eastern Way, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP32 7AH, UK Tel: +44-1635-562258, Fax: +44-1635-562281 Mail: Peter.Lancashire.PL1@bayer.co.uk --- My Internet plumbing does not allow me to mail and post news together. Sorry. All opinions are my own and not those of Bayer plc. --- Join Infuse, the UK Informix User Group at http://www.infuse.org.uk/