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Developing Mainframe Java™ Applications

Lou Marco
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Contents

Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xvii
Part 1 Java Fundamentals 1
Chapter 1 Introduction 3
Java Trek 3
A New World of Objects 3
Reusability 4
Inheritance 4
Encapsulation 4
Stack Class 5
Polymorphism 6
Java and C++ 6
C++ 7
Java 8
A PL/I Version of the Bubble Sort 17
In Summary 20
Chapter 2 What Is Java? 23
A Brief History of Java 23
The World of Java Today 25
Java: The Programming Language 25
Java: The Object-Oriented Programming Language 25
Java: The Portable Programming Language 26
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Java: The "Pointer-Less" Programming Language 27


Java: The MultiThreaded Language 28
IBM's Java Efforts 29
Java versus COBOL and PL/I: A Brief Look 29
In Summary 34
Chapter 3 Creating Your First Java Program 35
Installing the JDK 35
Is the JDK Installed Properly? 36
Compiling and Running the Program 37
Compiling and Running Java Programs: A Second Look 38
Watch out for Those Class Names 42
What Does a Compile Error Look Like? 43
Let's Look at the HelloWorld Program 43
Back to Our Program 46
In Summary 47

Chapter 4 The Sun Java 2 Basic JDK Tools 49


Basic JDK Tools 49
Appletviewer 50
jar 51
extcheck 53
java 54
javac 58
Javadoc 62
javah 66
javap 66
jdb
68
In Summary 76

Chapter 5 Declaring and Defining Data 77


Java Primitive Types 77
A Few Words on Variable Typing 78
Variable Type Casting 80
Java Variable Typing 81
The boolean Primitive Type 82
The char Primitive Type 83
Integer Primitive Types 84
Floating Point Primitive Types 85
Character Strings in Java 86
Java Reference Data Types 86
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Java Naming Conventions 88


In Summary 89
Chapter 6 Java Language Syntax 91
Miscellaneous Java Syntax Items 92
Java Source Code Is Case Sensitive 92
Java Statements Terminated by a Semicolon 92
Java Supports Multiple Comment Styles 92
Java Has No COPY or Include Statement 93
Java Has No Pointers 93
Java Has No Preprocessor 93
Reserved Words Exist in Java 93
Java Is a Free-Form Programming Language 95
Java Assignment Statements 96
Java Operators 97
Java Operators not Found in Mainframe Programming Languages 100
Java Arithmetic Anomalies 106
Mixing Primitive Types in Arithmetic Expressions 107
Loss of Precision when Dividing Integers 108
Shoddy Floating Point Arithmetic Results 109
Overflow and Keep Going 110
Java Program Control Statements 111
Loop Constructs 111
Interrupting the Normal Processing of Loops 117
Java Decision Constructs 119
In Summary 123
Chapter 7 Class and Object Representation 125
Anatomy of a Java Method 125
Visibility Modifiers 125
Other Modifiers 127
Returned Types Coded in Method Headers 128
Method Names and Argument Lists 128
The throws Exception-Name Option in Method Headers 128
A Word or Two about Java Packages 129
The package Statement 131
Anatomy of a Java class 132
Constructor Methods and Instance Variables 132
In Summary 147
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Chapter 8 Encapsulating and Hiding Data and Methods 149


Encapsulation 149
Why Encapsulate and Hide Your Data and Methods? 150
How Do You Encapsulate Your Classes in Java? 153
A PL/I Example: Is This Object-Oriented Programming? 158
Using Accessor (Get and Set) Methods 161
In Summary 164

Chapter 9 Inheritance 165


Inheritance Defined 165
Same Classes, Different Inheritance Trees 166
Single Versus Multiple Inheritance 168
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Example of an Inheritance Tree From the Java Libraries 169
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An Example: Implementing Bank Accounts 170


Code for Checking and Savings Account Classes 171
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Taking Advantage of Inheritance 174


Effects of Casting to and from Superclasses and Subclasses 181
In Summary 183
Chapter 10 Interfaces 185
What Are Interfaces? 185
Why Are Interfaces Useful? 186
What About Abstract Superclasses? 187
Creating Interfaces 188
Example: Implementing the Vehicle Types 188
In Summary 193
Chapter 11 Java Event-Handling Basics 195
Event Processing
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Java Graphical Interface Components 197
Java Events 199
The Java Event Processing Model 200
Variations on a Theme 1: Using Adapter Classes 205
Variations on a Theme 2: Using Top-Level Classes 206
Variations on a Theme 3: Using Inner Classes 207
In Summary 208
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Chapter 12 Exception Handling and Thread Basics 209


What Are Exceptions? 209
The Java Exception Hierarchy 210
The Java Exception Class 211
Mainframe Programming Language Exception Handling 212
Mechanisms
The Java Exception Handling Mechanism 214
Throwing Exceptions 214
Throwing Exceptions - Continued 215
Declaring Potentially Thrown Exceptions 216
Catching Exceptions with try/catch/finally 218
Java Exceptions Summary 220
Thread Basics 220
Why Code Multithreaded Programs? 220
What Are Java Threads? 221
Executing Your Threads 222
Sample MultiThreaded Program 222
In Summary 227
Chapter 13 The Training Department Class Scheduler 229
System
The Application Defined 229
Application Options for the Students 230
Application Options for the Instructors 230
The User Interface 230
The OS/390 Mainframe User Interface 231
The Java User Interface 234
The Data Stores 237
The Course Information File 238
The Class Information File 238
The Instructor Information File 238
The Employee Information File 238
Application Outputs 238
OS/390 IBM Mainframe Outputs 239
Java Outputs 242
Putting Together the Application 243
A Procedural Language Solution 244
A Java Language Solution 249
In Summary 254
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Part 2 Java In the OS/300 Mainframe Environment 255


Chapter 14 Overview of OS/390 Java 257
Infrastructure/Architecture
Software Requirements 257
Java Application Architectures 258
Java Software Components Versus Standalone Programs 259
Accessing OS/390 System Software 259
IBM Java Development Tools 262
In Summary 262
Chapter 15 Overview of OS/390 UNIX System Services 265
The Command Shell 265
The HFS File System 267
Working with HFS Files 268
Comparing MVS, UNIX, and OS/390 Concepts 270
In Summary 278

Chapter 16 Java and MVS Batch 279


Executing Java in Batch 279
Running Java Programs with BPXBATCH 280
Running Compiled and Linked Java Programs 284
Running Java Programs as Started Tasks 285
In Summary 286
Chapter 17 Java Record I/O Using the JRIO Package 287
What Is JRIO? 287
Contents of the JRIO Package 288
JRIO Interfaces 288
JRIO Constants 290
JRIO Exceptions 292
Using JRIO 294
Directory and Dataset Naming Conventions 294
import Statements Needed for JRIO 295
Representing Record Structures 295
JRIO Coding Examples 298
Fetching Encoded Data from and Setting Data to Fields 311
In Summary 313
Chapter 18 Java, CICS, and IMS 315
Java and CICS 315
The CICS Transaction Gateway 315
Writing a JCICS program using COMMAREA 320
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Java and IMS 321


What Is IMS Connect for Java? 322
In Summary 326

Chapter 19 Java and DB2 327


Overview of Java and DB2 for OS/390 327
Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) 329
Using JDBC 329
Java and SQLJ 334
Using SQLJ 334
Comparing JDBC to SQLJ 337
In Summary 337

Chapter 20 The Training Department Class Scheduler 339


System Revisited
The Application Feature Defined 339
The SQL Used in the Example 339
A Procedural Language Solution for "Display Class List Later Than 340
Entered Date" Option
Comments on the COBOL Solution 340
A Java Language Solution for "Display Class List Later Than 344
Entered Date" Option
The Code for a Single Class Retrieved from the Database 344
In Summary 347
Part 3 Java: Above and Beyond Other Programming 349
Languages
Chapter 21 Applets 351
A Bit of Background 351
Applications versus Applets 351
Coding the Web Page that Uses the Applet 352
How an Applet Executes 352
In Summary 357

Chapter 22 Java User Interface Basics 359


Java GUI Component Libraries 359
Standard GUI Components 360
Java Containers 360
Another Example 366
In Summary 371
Page xii

Chapter 23 Java File I/O 373


The File 374
Files (Datasets) in COBOL, PL/I 374
Files in Java 375
The Concept of a Stream 378
Streams in COBOL and PL/I 378
Streams in Java 380
In Summary 383
Chapter 24 The Java 2 Enterprise Edition Libraries 387
What Is J2EE? 387
Java on the Server 388
J2EE APIs 389
In Summary 394
Chapter 25 Remote Method Invocation 395
What Is Java RMI? 395
Java RMI Mechanics 396
Time for an Example 398
Step 1: Create the RMI Interface 398
Step 2: Code the Client Class 400
Step 3: Code the Server Class 401
Step 4: Compile the Interface, then the Server, and Then the Client 403
Classes
Step 5: Generate the Stub with the rmic Program 403
Step 6: Place the Stub Class File where the Client and the Server 403
Classes can Find Them
Step 7: Start the rmi Registry 404
Step 8: Create a Policy File 404
Step 9: Execute the Server Class 405
Step 10: Execute the Client Class (Invoke the Remote Method) 405
Summary of RMI Steps 405
In Summary 407
Glossary 409
Bibliography 417
Index 419
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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WITH TRUMPET


AND DRUM ***
WITH TRUMPET AND DRUM
BY EUGENE FIELD
———
Second Book of Tales.
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With·Trumpet·and·Drum
by

Eugene·Field

New·York
Charles·Scribner’s·Sons
1897

Copyright, 1892, by Mary French Field.

TROW DIRECTORY
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY
NEW YORK

This volume is made up of verse compiled from


my “Little Book of Western Verse,” my “Second
Book of Verse,” and the files of the “Chicago Daily
News,” the “Youth’s Companion,” and the “Ladies’
Home Journal.”
E.F.
Chicago, October 25, 1892.
WITH TRUMPET AND DRUM

With big tin trumpet and little red drum,


Marching like soldiers, the children come!
It’s this way and that way they circle and file—
My! but that music of theirs is fine!
This way and that way, and after a while
They march straight into this heart of mine!
A sturdy old heart, but it has to succumb
To the blare of that trumpet and beat of that drum!

Come on, little people, from cot and from hall—


This heart it hath welcome and room for you all!
It will sing you its songs and warm you with love,
As your dear little arms with my arms intertwine;
It will rock you away to the dreamland above—
Oh, a jolly old heart is this old heart of mine,
And jollier still is it bound to become
When you blow that big trumpet and beat that red drum!

So come; though I see not his dear little face


And hear not his voice in this jubilant place,
I know he were happy to bid me enshrine
His memory deep in my heart with your play—
Ah me! but a love that is sweeter than mine
Holdeth my boy in its keeping to-day!
And my heart it is lonely—so, little folk, come,
March in and make merry with trumpet and drum!

EUGENE FIELD.

Chicago, September 13, 1892.


PAGE
The Sugar-Plum Tree 1
Krinken 4
The Naughty Doll 7
Nightfall in Dordrecht 10
Intry-Mintry 12
Pittypat and Tippytoe 15
Balow, my Bonnie 18
The Hawthorne Children 20
Little Blue Pigeon (Japanese Lullaby) 24
The Lyttel Boy 26
Teeny-Weeny 28
Nellie 31
Norse Lullaby 33
Grandma’s Prayer 35
Some Time 36
The Fire-Hangbird’s Nest 38
Buttercup, Poppy, Forget-me-not 44
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod (Dutch Lullaby) 46
Gold and Love for Dearie 49
The Peace of Christmas-Time 51
To a Little Brook 54
Croodlin’ Doo[A] 58
Little Mistress Sans-Merci 60
Long Ago 62
In the Firelight 64
Cobbler and Stork (Armenian Folk-Lore) 66
“Lollyby, lolly, Lollyby” 70
Lizzie and the Baby 72
At the Door 74
Hugo’s “Child at Play” 76
Hi-Spy 77
Little Boy Blue 78
Father’s Letter 80
Jewish Lullaby 86
Our Whippings 88
The Armenian Mother (Folk-Song) 93
Heigho, my Dearie 95
To a Usurper 97
The Bell-flower Tree 99
Fairy and Child 102
The Grandsire 104
Hushaby, Sweet my Own 106
Child and Mother 108
Medieval Eventide Song 110
Armenian Lullaby 113
Christmas Treasures 115
Oh, Little Child 118
Ganderfeather’s Gift 120
Bambino (Sicilian Folk-Song) 123
Little Homer’s Slate 125
Cooing Dove.

WITH TRUMPET AND DRUM


THE SUGAR-PLUM TREE
H AVE you ever heard of the Sugar-Plum Tree?
’Tis a marvel of great renown!
It blooms on the shore of the Lollipop sea
In the garden of Shut-Eye Town;
The fruit that it bears is so wondrously sweet
(As those who have tasted it say)
That good little children have only to eat
Of that fruit to be happy next day.

When you’ve got to the tree, you would have a hard time
To capture the fruit which I sing;
The tree is so tall that no person could climb
To the boughs where the sugar-plums swing!
But up in that tree sits a chocolate cat,
And a gingerbread dog prowls below—
And this is the way you contrive to get at
Those sugar-plums tempting you so:

You say but the word to that gingerbread dog


And he barks with such terrible zest
That the chocolate cat is at once all agog,
As her swelling proportions attest.
And the chocolate cat goes cavorting around
From this leafy limb unto that,
And the sugar-plums tumble, of course, to the ground—
Hurrah for that chocolate cat!

There are marshmallows, gumdrops, and peppermint canes,


With stripings of scarlet or gold,
And you carry away of the treasure that rains
As much as your apron can hold!
So come, little child, cuddle closer to me
In your dainty white nightcap and gown,
And I’ll rock you away to that Sugar-Plum Tree
In the garden of Shut-Eye Town.
KRINKEN
K RINKEN was a little child,—
It was summer when he smiled.
Oft the hoary sea and grim
Stretched its white arms out to him,
Calling, “Sun-child, come to me;
Let me warm my heart with thee!”
But the child heard not the sea.

Krinken on the beach one day


Saw a maiden Nis at play;
Fair, and very fair, was she,
Just a little child was he.
“Krinken,” said the maiden Nis,
“Let me have a little kiss,—
Just a kiss, and go with me
To the summer-lands that be
Down within the silver sea.”

Krinken was a little child,


By the maiden Nis beguiled;
Down into the calling sea
With the maiden Nis went he.

But the sea calls out no more;


It is winter on the shore,—
Winter where that little child
Made sweet summer when he smiled:
Though ’tis summer on the sea
Where with maiden Nis went he,—
Summer, summer evermore,—
It is winter on the shore,
Winter, winter evermore.

Of the summer on the deep


Come sweet visions in my sleep;
His fair face lifts from the sea,
His dear voice calls out to me,—
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These my dreams of summer be.

Krinken was a little child,


By the maiden Nis beguiled;
Oft the hoary sea and grim
Reached its longing arms to him,
Crying, “Sun-child, come to me;
Let me warm my heart with thee!”
But the sea calls out no more;
It is winter on the shore,—
Winter, cold and dark and wild;
Krinken was a little child,—
It was summer when he smiled;
Down he went into the sea,
And the winter bides with me.
Just a little child was he.
THE NAUGHTY DOLL
M Y dolly is a dreadful care,—
Her name is Miss Amandy;
I dress her up and curl her hair,
And feed her taffy candy.
Yet heedless of the pleading voice
Of her devoted mother,
She will not wed her mother’s choice,
But says she’ll wed another.

I’d have her wed the china vase,—


There is no Dresden rarer;
You might go searching every place
And never find a fairer.
He is a gentle, pinkish youth,—
Of that there’s no denying;
Yet when I speak of him, forsooth,
Amandy falls to crying!

She loves the drum—that’s very plain—


And scorns the vase so clever;
And weeping, vows she will remain
A spinster doll forever!
The protestations of the drum
I am convinced are hollow;
When once distressing times should come,
How soon would ruin follow!

Yet all in vain the Dresden boy


From yonder mantel woos her;
A mania for that vulgar toy,
The noisy drum, imbues her!
In vain I wheel her to and fro,
And reason with her mildly,—
Her waxen tears in torrents flow,
Her sawdust heart beats wildly.

I’m sure that when I’m big and tall,


A d l ili d
And wear long trailing dresses,
I sha’n’t encourage beaux at all
Till mama acquiesces;
Our choice will be a suitor then
As pretty as this vase is,—
Oh, how we’ll hate the noisy men
With whiskers on their faces!
NIGHTFALL IN DORDRECHT
T HE mill goes toiling slowly around
With steady and solemn creak,
And my little one hears in the kindly sound
The voice of the old mill speak.
While round and round those big white wings
Grimly and ghostlike creep,
My little one hears that the old mill sings:
“Sleep, little tulip, sleep!”

The sails are reefed and the nets are drawn,


And, over his pot of beer,
The fisher, against the morrow’s dawn,
Lustily maketh cheer;
He mocks at the winds that caper along
From the far-off clamorous deep—
But we—we love their lullaby song
Of “Sleep, little tulip, sleep!”

Old dog Fritz in slumber sound


Groans of the stony mart—
To-morrow how proudly he’ll trot you round,
Hitched to our new milk-cart!
And you shall help me blanket the kine
And fold the gentle sheep
And set the herring a-soak in brine—
But now, little tulip, sleep!

A Dream-One comes to button the eyes


That wearily droop and blink,
While the old mill buffets the frowning skies
And scolds at the stars that wink;
Over your face the misty wings
Of that beautiful Dream-One sweep,
And rocking your cradle she softly sings:
“Sleep, little tulip, sleep!”
INTRY-MINTRY
W ILLIE and Bess, Georgie and May—
Once, as these children were hard at play,
An old man, hoary and tottering, came
And watched them playing their pretty game.
He seemed to wonder, while standing there,
What the meaning thereof could be—
Aha, but the old man yearned to share
Of the little children’s innocent glee
As they circled around with laugh and shout
And told their rime at counting out:
“Intry-mintry, cutrey-corn,
Apple-seed and apple-thorn;
Wire, brier, limber, lock,
Twelve geese in a flock;
Some flew east, some flew west,
Some flew over the cuckoo’s nest!”

Willie and Bess, Georgie and May—


Ah, the mirth of that summer-day!
’Twas Father Time who had come to share
The innocent joy of those children there;
He learned betimes the game they played
And into their sport with them went he—
How could the children have been afraid,
Since little they recked whom he might be?
They laughed to hear old Father Time
Mumbling that curious nonsense rime
Of “Intry-mintry, cutrey-corn,
Apple-seed and apple-thorn;
Wire, brier, limber, lock,
Twelve geese in a flock;
Some flew east, some flew west,
Some flew over the cuckoo’s nest!”

Willie and Bess, Georgie and May,


And joy of summer—where are they?
The grim old man still standeth near
Crooning the song of a far-off year;
And into the winter I come alone,
Cheered by that mournful requiem,
Soothed by the dolorous monotone
That shall count me off as it counted them—
The solemn voice of old Father Time
Chanting the homely nursery rime
He learned of the children a summer morn
When, with “apple-seed and apple-thorn,”
Life was full of the dulcet cheer
That bringeth the grace of heaven anear—
The sound of the little ones hard at play—
Willie and Bess, Georgie and May.
PITTYPAT AND TIPPYTOE
A LL day long they come and go—
Pittypat and Tippytoe;
Footprints up and down the hall,
Playthings scattered on the floor,
Finger-marks along the wall,
Tell-tale smudges on the door—
By these presents you shall know
Pittypat and Tippytoe.

How they riot at their play!


And a dozen times a day
In they troop, demanding bread—
Only buttered bread will do,
And that butter must be spread
Inches thick with sugar too!
And I never can say “No,
Pittypat and Tippytoe!”

Sometimes there are griefs to soothe,


Sometimes ruffled brows to smooth;
For (I much regret to say)
Tippytoe and Pittypat
Sometimes interrupt their play
With an internecine spat;
Fie, for shame! to quarrel so—
Pittypat and Tippytoe!

Oh the thousand worrying things


Every day recurrent brings!
Hands to scrub and hair to brush,
Search for playthings gone amiss,
Many a wee complaint to hush,
Many a little bump to kiss;
Life seems one vain, fleeting show
To Pittypat and Tippytoe!

And when day is at an end,


Th li l d d d
There are little duds to mend:
Little frocks are strangely torn,
Little shoes great holes reveal,
Little hose, but one day worn,
Rudely yawn at toe and heel!
Who but you could work such woe,
Pittypat and Tippytoe?

But when comes this thought to me:


“Some there are that childless be,”
Stealing to their little beds,
With a love I cannot speak,
Tenderly I stroke their heads—
Fondly kiss each velvet cheek.
God help those who do not know
A Pittypat or Tippytoe!

On the floor and down the hall,


Rudely smutched upon the wall,
There are proofs in every kind
Of the havoc they have wrought,
And upon my heart you’d find
Just such trade-marks, if you sought;
Oh, how glad I am ’tis so,
Pittypat and Tippytoe!
BALOW, MY BONNIE
H USH, bonnie, dinna greit;
Moder will rocke her
sweete,—
Balow, my boy!
When that his toile ben done,
Daddie will come anone,—
Hush thee, my lyttel one;
Balow, my boy!

Gin thou dost sleepe, perchaunce


Fayries will come to daunce,—
Balow, my boy!
Oft hath thy moder seene
Moonlight and mirkland queene
Daunce on thy slumbering een,—
Balow, my boy!

Then droned a bomblebee


Saftly this songe to thee:
“Balow, my boy!”

And a wee heather bell,


Pluckt from a fayry dell,
Chimed thee this rune hersell:
“Balow, my boy!”

Soe, bonnie, dinna greit;


Moder doth rock her sweete,—
Balow, my boy!
Give mee thy lyttel hand,
Moder will hold it and
Lead thee to balow land,—
Balow, my boy!
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