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5486LPAD.fm Draft Document for Review October 18, 2004

682 IBM Eserver i5 and iSeries System Handbook

access points to the iSeries server and is fully national language support (NLS)

enabled.

The classes can be used by Java applets and applications to easily access

iSeries data and resources. When using IBM Toolbox for Java on an iSeries

server when the server is a client, no additional support beyond the inherent

OS/400 support of JVM and the iSeries Developer Kit for Java is required. IBM

Toolbox for Java provides support for similar functions to those provided by

iSeries Access APIs. It uses the OS/400 host servers (part of OS/400) to access

the iSeries data and resources.

Features

IBM Toolbox for Java includes:

򐂰 A user interface framework to provide a productive development environment

for building graphical panels

The framework automatically handles the exchange of data. The developer

only needs to create one or more data beans and bind them to the panel

components using tags defined by the Panel Definition Markup Language

(PDML).

򐂰 A user interface framework to create a platform and technology independent

representation of graphical panels based on XML

Also included is a pure Java framework for interpreting the XML and

constructing user interface panels based on the Java Foundation Classes

(JFC).

򐂰 A resource script converter to convert Windows dialogs to equivalent Java

panels defined in XML

򐂰 Graphical Toolbox, a GUI builder tool (a What You See Is What You Get

(WYSIWYG) GUI editor) to develop custom interface panels in Java

򐂰 A program-called framework, provided via a PCML, a tag language used for

supporting the program call function of the toolbox

The language fully describes all parameters, structures, and field

relationships necessary to call an iSeries program.

򐂰 Easy access to additional iSeries resources, to work better in a three-tier

environment, and to make it easier to write servlets and write GUI

applications with improvements to the GUI builder tool

򐂰 Additional Java APIs for accessing iSeries resources

APIs are added to call iSeries service programs, call iSeries Java programs,

interact with the iSeries File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server, and work with

profile tokens.

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