Someone once asked me, "If RPG is so great, why do you write so much on how to make RPG call other languages?" An interesting question! I'm very much an RPG advocate, but I write a great deal on how to make RPG call C or Java. This week's RPG & DB2 Summit podcast explores that topic, talking about the value of calling other languages from RPG.

Here are links to some more information about the topics we discuss in the podcast:

• Foundation Visual RPG Prototype Generator to generate RPG prototypes for Java classes. (Click Free Tools)
• Aaron Bartell's Mowyourlawn.com
• Scott's articles on Excel spreadsheets with POI (See "Previous Articles" for more articles.)
• Scott's articles on JDBC from RPG (See "Previous Articles" for more articles.)
• Scott's articles on JFreeChart to make graphs (See "Previous Articles" for more articles.)
• Easy400.net's XLPARSE tool (Free registration required--once registered, click the Download link.)

Listen to the podcast.