Originally posted by ashwanth fernando:
After graduation I got selected in an IT services company and they trained me in As/400 , RPG and COBOL.
I on the other hand am a Java geek and I would like to Move onto Java technology . I have cleared my SCJP , I want to write my SCWCD 1.4 now , wud that help in making my future employer realize that I am a person well versed with the concepts of Java so that he/she will allow me to work on Java technology ?
I would start on something simple but of some use , no matter how small, where you work now. Maybe you could start with a simple utility program written in Java that can be called by COBOL, RPG, or CL programs?
IBM supports Java on the AS/400 very strongly. I believe they all ship with a JVM (but usually not supporting current version), they all ship with web server (I think with application server also), and there is an
IDE based on Eclipse ("WSD" or called something like that). Some things may be on a disk that comes with AS/400 that the server admin never installed or removed..
All that being said, I never found it easy to get started with Java on AS/400 (that was a number of years ago). There are AS/400 (iSeries)web forums like Javaranch however, that can help, and IBM has
doc.
The other route is developing Java on Windows or whatever OS is on desktops where you work. It is not uncommon to move information from desktop to AS/400 and vice versa, so a Java program may help in that task.