Resource lists

The Resource package and its classes have been deprecated. You are advised to use the Access package instead.

The com.ibm.as400.resource.ResourceList class represents a list of iSeries™ resources. This is an abstract class which provides generic access to the contents of the list.

IBM^® Toolbox for Java™ provides the following resource lists:

RIFSFileList - represents a list of files and directories in the iSeries integrated file system
RJobList - represents a list of iSeries jobs
RJobLog - represents a list of messages in an iSeries job log
RMessageQueue - represents a list of messages in an iSeries message queue
RPrinterList - represents a list of iSeries printers
RUserList - represents a list of iSeries users

A resource list is always either open or closed. The resource list must be open in order to access its contents. In order to provide immediate access to the contents of the list and manage memory efficiently, most resource lists are loaded incrementally.

Resource lists allow you to:

Open the list
Close the list
Access a specific Resource from the list
Wait for a particular resource to load
Wait for the complete resource list to load

You can also filter resource lists by using selection values. Every selection value is identified using a selection ID. Similarly, resource lists can be sorted using sort values. Every sort value is identified using a sort ID. Any given subclass of ResourceList will normally document the selection IDs and sort IDs that it supports.

Examples

The following examples show various ways of working with resource lists:

Example: Getting and printing the contents of a ResourceList
Example: Using generic code to access a ResourceList
Example: Presenting a resource list in a servlet (HTML table)

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