If you are unsure about whether to employ Rexx's object-oriented features, here are some tips to help you decide.
Object-oriented technology reinforces good programming practices, such as hiding your data from code that does not use it (encapsulation and polymorphism), partitioning your program in small, manageable units (classification and data abstraction), reusing code wherever possible and changing it in one place (inheritance and functional decomposition).
Other advantages often associated with object technology are:
Simplified design through modeling with objects
Greater code reuse
Rapid prototyping
The higher quality of proven components
Easier and reduced maintenance
Cost-savings potential
Increased adaptability and scalability
With Object Rexx, you get the user-friendliness of Rexx in an object-oriented environment.
Object Rexx provides a Sockets API for Rexx. So you can script Object Rexx clients and servers, and run them in the Internet.
Object Rexx also provides access to FTP commands by means of its RxFtp package, and to the use of mathematical functions by means of its RxMath utility package. The Sockets, FTP, and mathematical functions packages are each supplied with separate, full documentation.