The Jon Paris course on May 26, 2005 has an added incentive.
Everyone attending the seminar will get a certificate good for a
discount at any of the next 2 RPG World Conferences which are hosted
by Jon Paris, Susan Gantner and Bob Cozzi.

Details about the Seminar on RPG IV -&- RPG V with Jon
Paris -
on May 26, 2005 at the Holiday Inn in Ft. Washington, PA.
The course fee is $275 for non-user group members
and $250 for user group members.
It starts at 8:30 AM and ends at 5:00 PM.
Location is the Holiday Inn in Ft. Washington, PA.



RPG: What's New, What You Should Be Using, What You May Not Know

This one-day seminar explores the issues regarding the development
and deployment of the latest in V5R2 RPG and the latest in
techniques and tools in developing RPG for GUI and web applications.

We start the day out with: RPG IV: Did you know... (Prototypes,
Compiler Directives and other features and functions you may have
missed)

Then we move on to: Exploiting RPG's V5 Power Features.

With free-format RPG stealing all the headlines, it was easy to
overlook some of the other powerful features introduced in the V5
releases of RPG IV. This session will show you how to make the most
of them to power-up your RPG programs.

Major topics to be covered include:

- How to use the new MONITOR function to simplify error handling
- Ending the decimal data error blues by combining MONITOR with new
I/O features
- Many Data Structure enhancements, including Qualified and Nested
DSs, DS Arrays and new BIFs that help you to structure your data to
match the real world
- How to code RPG "methods" for use from Java and how call Java
methods from RPG

Which is followed by: /Free Your RPG!

With the V5R1 release of RPG IV IBM has "liberated" the language.
In this session we will explore the essentials of /free-form coding
including:

- The basic syntax rules of /Free RPG (or "How I learned to love the
semi-colon")
- The new Built-in-Functions designed to replace unsupported
operation codes, including the new BIFs to manipulate dates and
times
- Coding alternatives for the defunct MOVE operation
- New operations you can ONLY use in /Free form

Then it's on to: RPG IV Subprocedures - Beyond the basics

And finally, we end with: Brewing Up Mixed RPG and Java Applications

The Java Native Method (JNI) support in RPG IV opens up a whole new
world of possibilities. We can now write Java methods in RPG, and
invoke Java methods from RPG.

These days there is a wide range of Java utility software freely
available. Examples include: XML parsers, PDF creators, e-Mail, and
Excel spreadsheet creation to name just a few. In this session we
will introduce you to the basics of using these facilities from
within your RPG programs.

Knowledge of RPG IV prototyping is assumed, some Java knowledge is
helpful but not essential.

Signup at http://www.wash-midrange.org/paris0505.html