> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott > Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 1:33 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Now is time for banks to replace core system > according to Accenture > <snip> > > Unless it's being managed by CIS majors and a dozen Indian > VB.NET lackeys. > Then the stuff should be nuked from orbit.
Agree. But it is "cheaper" and so "better" to the bean counters who care only about today and let tomorrow worry about itself. > > If you have some "what jesus would write if he used cobol" > then I'm happy to > see it. My big motive for advocating Java is the > Object-Oriented libraries > that you can build and your ability to export that to other > systems if the > business case ever presents itself, with only minor changes necessary. I would love this. Something like a Java package. And the ability to "import" that package using an IDE. I use NetBeans. I know that I need to learn Eclipse. It is very nice to have NetBeans list the possible values when I enter a period as I type in a package name. I can then easily select all the way down to the exact method that I need. And it encourages a package to, say, read and write a particular record defination. Use the .read() and .write() methods along with the get...() and set...() methods to access the fields. Not only is it "easier", but you can change the underlying package so long as the methods used continue to have the same parameters. And it allows a type of polymorphism on the method. > > Scott -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
