Dear Member, This week's member update includes the following: * Featured Topic: COBOL vs. Java * Tips Contest: Win a Remote control T-Rex * New Developer Tip * Forums Highlight * This Week's Featured Expert: Tom Ross * Featured Destination: searchMiddleware.com FEATURED TOPIC: COBOL vs Java Java has been heralded as the programming language of the future. So what does this mean to mainframers? Should you scrap all that COBOL code for Java? Well each is better suited for different applications. But the reality is someone with skills in both would be a pretty hot commodity. Read more about it here http://search390.techtarget.com/featuredTopic/0,290042,sid10_gci754959,00.html Related info includes: *COBOL and Java: A programmer's one-two punch http://search390.techtarget.com/qna/0,289202,sid10_gci553985,00.html *Java Java Do! http://search390.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid10_gci524438,00.html *Best Web Links/Programming http://search390.techtarget.com/bestWebLinks/0,289521,sid10_tax1453,00.html *Java servlets http://search390.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid10_cid368945_tax285032,00.html Speaking of COBOL and Java, which one of these languages do you prefer and why? Let us know! Talk about this with your peers in our Developer Discussion Forum. Go to: http://search390.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?50@@.ee83ff7 TIPS CONTEST Have you heard that our tips contest for July is in full force? The winner of this month's contest will take home a King T-REX radio control dinotronic dinosaur! Jim Keohane has three by the way and says they're grreeaattt! If you are a developer that can fix any bug, any time, and want to share your genius with the rest of us, go right ahead! Or, have you found ways to successfully integrate those legacy apps with the Web, and are dying to tell someone besides your spouse? Then write it down and send it in! You may take home T-REX if everyone likes your tip best. To submit a tip, read the rules, or learn more about the cooler than cool prize, click here http://search390.techtarget.com/tipsPrize/0,289492,sid10_prz750651_cts750650,00.html NEW DEVELOPER TIP *Flapjaws methodology of commercial software development In this tip, Jim Keohane offers some advice on how to stay afloat and keep only ONE foot on the ground at a time if you're a commercial software developer. FYI, If you're looking for the "Spaghetti code al dente" tip mentioned at the bottom, you won't find it on our site. 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What are the solutions that can be recommended to overcome the problems?" Post a reply here: http://search390.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?[EMAIL PROTECTED]^[email protected]!viewtype=convdate&skip=&expand= THIS WEEK'S FEATURED EXPERT: Tom Ross This week's featured expert is, once again, Tom Ross! Tom received so many questions last week that we decided to keep him on our homepage for one more week. (Actually, we really like his sunglasses!) Tom is a software engineer at IBM and specializes in COBOL, PL/I and LE for S/390. If you have a question for Tom, post it here: http://search390.techtarget.com/ateQuestion/0,289624,sid10_cid376068_tax285603,00.html FEATURED DESTINATION: searchMiddleware.com The Middleware market is growing at an incredible rate with new products popping up all the time. How do you make sense of it all? Try searchMiddleware.com. 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