Re: Next generation COBOL?



"Richard" <riplin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> While Java has a built in GUI or two one rarely sees any use of AWT
> (which was mainly for applets) or Swing. More use seems to be for
> servlets and now with AJAX being the browser front end.
>
> Perhaps Cobol would be better placed in the servlet class with AJAX as
> the GUI as this would more likely fit in with enterprise requirements
> than PeeCee gooey stuff.
>
>
I'm not convinced about AJAX. While XML certainly seems to be the way to
go, and AJAX does provide high flexibility and respnse to change, it is at
the expense of a lot of toing and froing from client to server, and not
everybody would agree that a client running AJAX is still ""thin" (whether
that really matters or not...)

Time will tell. (Wea re implementing with AJAX but if performance is bad...)

Pete.



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