The Generation process is quick and easy
The generation process is speedy, requires no knowledge of programming at all, and produces components that fit right into the component library of a Java developer. These host access components completely obviate any necessity for your Java developers to be familiar with the mainframe implementation of the transactional components that they use, and reuse, when building new e-business systems that cooperate with those mainframe applications.

The Java source code can be studied, modified and enhanced
The resulting Java bean will perform the intended mainframe transaction, in exactly the same way as when it was recorded, with error handling capability depending on the situations anticipated when stepping through the transaction in the generation process. The Java source code generated is available to your Java developers for study, and enhancement or customization.

Includes immediate test of the generated bean
The final phase packs the Java source as a Standard or Enterprise Java Bean for deployment in a Java development environment, and use as a component in a Java application. The bean can be tested and demonstrated within Gargen, using a generic 'driver application', which looks at any bean to determine the input parameters it requires, and then generates a web page to ask for them. After execution of the bean the driver application displays all output from the bean in a web page, using the key values of the output parameters as headers for the output fields. This gives the Gargen user instant confirmation of the beans functionality. It also provides a testbed for Java developers wanting to investigate practical use of the bean.

Includes packing for deployment in production
Gargen generates an example Java servlet that shows how to use the Java bean in a normal Web server environment. Gargen also generates an example of how you could deploy and use the Enterprise Java Bean in an Application Server environment using Gconnect, the G&R J2EE Connector.