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In the past several years, Java has become the hot new programming language. The reasons for Java's popularity are its portability, robustness, and ability to produce Internet-enabled applications. This IBM Redbooks publication explains how you can use Java and the IBM eServer iSeries server to build server applications and client/server applications for the new network computing paradigm. It focuses on two key products: VisualAge for Java Version 3.5 and IBM Toolbox for Java. Throughout this book, you’ll find many practical programming examples with detailed explanations on how they work. You’ll see how to modernize legacy RPG applications in a practical and evolutionary way through client and server Java examples. These examples are available for download from the Redbooks Web site. To understand this code better, download the files, as explained in Appendix A, and use them as a reference. This book is intended to help customers and service providers who need to install and configure Java on the iSeries server. It also targets application developers who want to develop Java applications for the iSeries server. Reading this book will help you to quickly and easily start using Java with the iSeries server.

To address new demands in business computing, software vendors are introducing application server toolkits. The concept is to create clusters of low-cost computers that support one specific business area, then connect these clusters to the corporate network. By using the network as the computer, one piece of software can support desktop computing, electronic commerce, and communication with traditional mainframe software. Building Application Servers is a practical guide to application server technology, explaining the theory of network computing and providing practical techniques that use these tools to produce effective business solutions. Rick Leander includes practical examples and program code that use UML, Java, RMI, and JDBC to illustrate design problems and programming techniques. The development framework offered spans a variety of platforms, vendors, and middleware architectures. Software developers who are familiar with traditional client/server technology but want to learn how to move to distributed client/server computing will find this book invaluable.