On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 2:30 PM, Allan Staller <allan.stal...@hcl.com> wrote:
> Lots of people use XML. It is handy for translating X to Y in a platform > independent manner. > That being said, I would only use XML if forced to by > business/applications constraints. ​Yeah. I like XML because Java supports it "natively". But I think that JSON is "better" mainly because it can do the same thing with fewer characters. And, similar to XML/Java, JSON is native to JavaScript. I just noticed that NodeJS is on ShopzSeries. I can't tell, but it seems to be a cost item, unlike Java. This is unfortunate for me because the nodejs implementations on Linux and Windows are cost-free. So, once again, IBM makes those platforms more attractive to our bottom-line management. But then, we don't run nodejs because "It's not a Microsoft product.". Yes, I actually got that from a Windows person who was looking at a thin-client desktop product, many years ago. -- We all have skeletons in our closet. Mine are so old, they have osteoporosis. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
