[jt400-news] JTOpen 6.5 now available

[JTOpen U. A. <jt4...@li...>]

Dear developers,

JTOpen release 6.5 is now available for download on the SourceForge 
project page for the JTOpen project, at 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jt400

Please refer to the changes.html file for a list of updates since JTOpen 
6.4.


Changes of particular interest include:

INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE:
The getJob() method is eliminated from classes CommandCall and 
ProgramCall.  Applications that reference this method will no longer 
compile or execute.  Use method getServerJob() instead.

BEHAVIOR CHANGE:
Formerly, when running natively on IBM i, by default the Toolbox looked-up 
the designated thread-safety of CL commands, and called thread-safe CL's 
on-thread to optimize performance.  This caused problems where successive 
CL's and programs would be called in 2 different jobs (on-thread versus 
off-thread).  The new default is to simply call all CL's via the Remote 
Command Host Server.  To restore the previous behavior, set Java system 
property:
           com.ibm.as400.access.CommandCall.threadSafe=lookup



Note that zip file jtopen_6_5_jdbc40.zip contains a version of JTOpen 6.5 
that supports JDBC 4.0, and has been compiled to Java 6.0.
In order to use the jars in this file, you must have Java 6.0.


To ask questions about JTOpen and the Toolbox, please go to the 
JTOpen/Toolbox forum:
http://www-912.ibm.com/j_dir/JTOpen.nsf/($All)?OpenView

Other sources of information about the Toolbox and JTOpen include:

Toolbox home page:  http://www.ibm.com/systems/i/software/toolbox/
JTOpen home page:  http://jt400.sourceforge.net/
JTOpen project page:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/jt400
JTOpen bugs database:  
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=128806&atid712772


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Sincerely,
The JTOpen development team