Having developed/worked with several java apps that run on z/OS, I can
tell you that all the porting problems will revolve around the fact that
the JVM native encoding is Cp1047.  That is a EBCIDIC code page.

Many java apps make an assumption that the native encoding is an ASCII
based code page.  Example: I had to patch the jCVS libs to work on the
z/OS because they just used a standard PrintStream to talk the the CVS
server over the network.  They assumed that the native encoding would
match the server, which on z/OS it does not. The fix was to construct
the PrintStream with the encoding set to UTF-8.


Regards,
Hiram


On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 09:46, Cabrera, Alan wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Koller, Shmuel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > 
> > I will like to undertake this contribution - produce 
> > OpenSource J2EE for yet another platform, z/OS. The port to 
> > z/OS will take the Unix variant of Geronimo (packaging, scripts)
> > 
> > and will be targetted to full incubation of Geronimo in z/OS 
> > Unix Services & JVM technology.
> 
> Shmuel,
> 
> I'm confused.  If we stick to Jars, what further work needs to be done?
> 
> Just curious.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Alan
> 
> 
> 
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