WarpDoctor REXX Plug-In

Name     WarpDoctor REXX Plug-In
Version  v1.01 12/25/2002
Author   WarpDoctor Team 
Distrib. Freeware 
Type     REXX DLL 
Price    -
Source   Internet 
         Name: wdRexxin.* 

Special Note: 

The version v1.01 12/25/2002 of this plugin needs the DLL CPPOM30.DLL 
which is NOT part of the package. To get this DLL search the WEB for the 
bamba plugin from IBM; the filename of the archive is bos2a.zip. This ZIP 
file contains a copy of the DLL CPPOM30.DLL. 
Hopefully this limitation will be removed in further versions! 

Description from the authors: 

"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."