Joe writes:
> As you can see from your previous login question ( regarding an
> AS/400 ToolBox for Java issue ) and this one, if I understand it correctly,
> people get confused here because they expect to answer it in a platform
> independent way. This wastes their time and doesn't help you.
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<flame mode="Java Evangelist" temp=mild>
One of the key points to writing software in Java is doing away with
platform dependent issues like character encoding. However, even a
Windows based MSVC++ program can read AS400 data without worrying about
this sort of thing. The drivers (ODBC/JDBC) make all the translations,
freeing the application programmer of that sort of concern.
I also work with the AS400 Toolkit. I will grant that the AWT login
prompt default was a brainless move on IBM's part, but the rest of the
questions should *not* be answered in a platform specific way. In the
case of the login exception, that was a toolkit issue, not really a
platform issue as such.
My point is that this list is not for resolving platform specific JDBC
issues. I do think that it isn't a great sin to post questions that are
only marginally related to servlets (like the tons of generic JDBC
questions) because they are issues being faced by a lot of people right
now. However, to recommend that people deliberately ask or answer
platform specific issues is only going to decrease the signal to noise
ratio...
</flame>
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