IBM i Series

IBM Licensed Programs: Application Development Products
604 iSeries Handbook
The toolbox supports the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) specification. Data flowing between
the workstation and an iSeries or AS/400 running OS/400 V4R4 or later can run across an
SSL connection providing data encryption and server authentication. iSeries Toolbox for Java
provides access to the following iSeries server resources:
• iSeries user and group information
• Database access via JDBC
• Database access via Record-Level File Input/Output
• iSeries program call
• iSeries command call
• iSeries Integrated File System
• iSeries print resources, including spooled files
• iSeries message queues
• iSeries data queues
• iSeries active job information
• iSeries system values
• Authority on an iSeries object
The iSeries 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 the Extensible Markup Language (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.
• A GUI builder tool (a WYSIWYG GUI editor) to develop Java GUIs.
• A program-called framework, provided via a Program Call Markup Language (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.
iSeries Toolbox for Java is Java-compatible so it can run on any platform that fully supports
the JVM 1.1.6 specification, supports Java applets and applications, and provides JavaBeans
for most public interfaces. It uses OS/400 servers as the access points to the iSeries server
and is fully NLS enabled.