Migration to Java … but why ?
There have been a few posts recently on the duick.com mailing list about moving away from Gen and recreating the systems in quetion in raw Java – maybe using some tooling to achieve the initial migration.
For the life of me, I can’t see any rationale behind this notion. Why take a system that is proven to work and has forward-compatibility with ANY technology that arises in the future and lock it in to Java ?
Once the system is written in Java, it would be an onerous task to convert to another technology or paradigm, one which would cost a lot and introduce risk into the system lifecycle.
I’m not aware of any other tooling that has the capability of Gen when it comes to targetting technologies as diverse as Mainframe, Client/Server and the web – so why would anyone do this?
Answers on a postcard please ???
