Hi.
Does anyone have any experience to share on letting a Java team develop parts of a system using Java & JT400 sharing the same database on IBM i as the original RPG system?
The RPG system is a rather large financial system, 20+ years old with a majority of RPG III, but also some RPG IV fixed and ILE RPG free. The RPG team is hard to scale to match increasing business demands. The company also has many Java teams that could be used to develop some of the functionality in Java. It is not realistic to build a team of "full stack" developers doing both Java and RPG.
My concern is that these teams probably would end up working in silos, not able to work across both Java and RPG. Also a loss of control since the codebase of this monolithic system would be spread across multiple languages and runtime environments (still sharing the same DB).
Any thoughts? Anyone knows someone that has done something similar?
Does anyone have any experience to share on letting a Java team develop parts of a system using Java & JT400 sharing the same database on IBM i as the original RPG system?
The RPG system is a rather large financial system, 20+ years old with a majority of RPG III, but also some RPG IV fixed and ILE RPG free. The RPG team is hard to scale to match increasing business demands. The company also has many Java teams that could be used to develop some of the functionality in Java. It is not realistic to build a team of "full stack" developers doing both Java and RPG.
My concern is that these teams probably would end up working in silos, not able to work across both Java and RPG. Also a loss of control since the codebase of this monolithic system would be spread across multiple languages and runtime environments (still sharing the same DB).
Any thoughts? Anyone knows someone that has done something similar?
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