What's new in JTOpen 2.0
Packages
AS/400 Toolbox for Java includes some new packages:
New classes
AS/400 Toolbox for Java also features many new classes in existing packages:
access, html, servlet,
and vaccess. Using the new classes enables you to:
- Convert Bidi text between AS/400 and Java formats
- Manage a pool of AS/400 objects to share and manage connections to AS/400,
including JDBC connections
- Increase the variety of HTML tags you can include in your Java programs,
including headings, meta tags, and lists
- Display IFS directory contents in an HTML list or a hierarchical tree
- Graphically present information about JDBC data sources and user-defined
resources (using the com.ibm.as400.resource package)
- Display any resource in a servlet
- Access JDBC 2.0 Optional Package extensions
- Work with AS/400 environment variables
- Request a license for a product installed in the AS/400
- Query and modify the state and configuration of the AS/400 NetServer
- Ping the Host Servers from a command line or within a Java program
For more information about new classes, see the associated package documentation.
Enhanced classes
AS/400 Toolbox for Java also includes enhancements to existing classes.
These enhancements offer:
New or enhanced functions
AS/400 Toolbox for Java also features new and enhanced functions:
Additional functions and features in Graphical Toolbox
The Graphical Toolbox incorporates new features:
- The PDML framework now uses Java
Help, including context sensitive help
- Retrieve detail messages automatically for AS400 messages
- An expanded runtime API provides more function
Compatibility
There are some objects you will not be able to
deserialize using this release of AS/400 Toolbox for Java that were
serialized using earlier versions of AS/400 Toolbox for
Java.
AS/400 Toolbox for Java continues to provide support for
- Swing 1.1, which is required to use GUI classes or the Graphical Toolbox
- Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE), with continued support of Java
Platform 1.1.x
- Linux workstations
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