This is not entirely about IBM mainframes, so I hope you don't mind. But I'm curious about what languages/compilers exist which will produce Java byte code which could be run on a zAAP. I have found four (4) so far.
1) Java http://java.sun.com/ 2) NetREXX - another REXX variant, but not exactly like TSO or UNIX REXX or ooREXX. http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/netrexx/ 3) Clojure - a rather strange meld of LISP and Functional Programming. http://clojure.org 4) Scala - A combination of object oriented and functional programming. http://www.scala-lang.org/ My main curiousity is if anybody has heard of any others? And, has anybody tried to run programs written in any of the above, other than Java itself of course, on a z? In addition, has anyone else written and compiled any Java (or other JVM based language) on a non-z platform and gotten the "compiled" .class or .jar file to run on the z after doing a simple BINary upload of the .class or .jar file into a UNIX file? As an aside, I have. But it was a fairly simple program. Now, it did use Derby (a 100% pure Java RDMS) as its database and did its user interaction via X. Again, I want the z and z/OS to be as competative as possible. And the more "stuff" that can run on z/OS without driving up the software cost, the better. I am especially interested in JVM based languages because CICS transactions can be written in Java. Therefore, if I can integrate the non-Java JVM based languages with Java to use the JCICS interface in CICS, I have expanded the capabilities of CICS as well. -- John McKown Maranatha! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
