Hi, my name is not Mrs so-called Gumblenose

[Simon B]

"Alex Martelli" <alex at magenta.com> wrote:
>> If someone were to port JPython to the '400, you would be able
>> to use the AS/400 Toolbox for Java's native DB access APIs,
but
>> that would be a pretty major job in itself.
>
>Why would JPython have to be "ported" at all?  Doesn't it
>"just run" with any common-or-garden Java Virtual Machine?

Pretty much. But I gather that the AS/400 implementation of the
JVM has a few, uh, features. Also, you'd have to wrap the AS/400
Toolbox for Java, or it wouldn't be worth doing in the first
place.


Cheers,
Simon B.
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