Ruben Safir wrote:
As I understand it, CPRS is a delphi program? If so, it will need to be eventually replaced with something less proprietary if Vista is to survive. But it is a mistake to try to duplicate CPRS. Draw new specs and create the programming needed and not in Java (from the pan into the fire? ) but GTK or something similar.
perlgtk is a nice fast way of doing things, Free and easily portable. The RAD power of perl with the widgety gui goodness of gtk in Linux/MS-windows all in one succulent, tasty package. (The catch is you'd need the perl environment for windows rather than just the gtk runlib. I would say everyone should be forced to have perl on their box for the greater good, but I am a lone lunatic voice ;-) ).
Reverse engineering the CPRS forms parts should be straightforward enough with perlgtk.
However, to build the underpinning logic of CPRS in perl and handle the COM bits - I don't know enough about it to guess whether reverse engineering or translating pas files (or a judicious mix of both) would be the best way to do it.
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