Rexx a substitute for Java? We think so, especially on OS/2. With the WarpDoctor Rexx Plug-in you can do in Rexx just about everything that you can do in Java, but faster and easier.
Java was designed as an interpreted language that was targeted at embedded systems. It
"took off" as the darling language of the late 1990s when Netscape decided to include a
Java Virtual Machine (JVM) in all their browsers and to recognize a new APPLET
HTML tag which allowed Java programs to be downloaded from a web server on demand and
run as "applets" within an HTML page - the applet being assigned an area on the page by the
applet tag.
The WarpDoctor Rexx Plug-in does for Rexx what Netscape's inclusion of the JVM and applet tag
did for Java: it enables Rexx programs
to be downloaded from a web server on demand and run in an area of an HTML page, appearing to be
part of the page. The WD Rexx plug-in however also enables downloaded Rexx programs to be run in their
own Command Prompt window or in a separate window provided by a visual Rexx environment (such as VX-Rexx, GPF Rexx, etc.)
, and to run with output directed to a window on the HTML page.
This is the project page for the WarpDoctor Rexx Plug-in. The WD Rexx plug-in was developed by the WarpDoctor project team to facilitate data entry to, and maintenance of, the database used to store the content of the WarpDoctor site. While the plug-in was created specifically to solve WarpDoctor's database needs it was designed to be generic, to run any Rexx program from any web site. And in the spirit of WarpDoctor the plug-in and source code are made freely available to the OS/2 community in hopes that it will prove useful to other sites and users so that the entire OS/2 community can benefit.
For more information click on one of the following links
Rexx Programming Guide for the Plug-in (non-JavaScript version)
Rexx Programming Reference for the Plug-in (non-JavaScript version)