midrange.com - In My Humble Opinion

This post is about Eclipselink and my experience using it with the System i. It also describes some problems I ran into so you can avoid them if you try Eclipselink.

Eclipselink is Eclipse Persistence Services Project, version 1.0 was released July 9, 2008. See http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/ I won’t go into the history and general explanations. For some background on Eclipelink see http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/introducing-eclipselink. I will say that Eclipselink based on 12 years of commercial usage as Oracles’s Toplink product. Eclipselink is mature and solid.

The focus of this post is

• Eclipselink is easy to use and works well with DB2 on System I and
• solutions to some problems that I ran into.

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The folks at Mochasoft have come out with a new 5250 client for mobile devices ... this one for the iPhone.

There are two versions in the Apple iTunes Store ... a free 'Lite' version and the full version for $29.99.

For what it does, the $29.99 cost is not unreasonable ... although I haven't purchased the full version yet (not sure I'm going to, as I really don't have much need for it).

As with most good iPhone applications, the 5250 emulator works in both portrait & landscape mode ... sensing the orientation of the phone automatically.  In landscape mode it's quite usable for most basic operations.

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