Re: RPG as Web service

Nathan,

I have found out that this is going to be an internal service only and
the applications that are going to use it are in Java so it should be
easier to integrate.

What is interesting is that they are going to replace a "down load the
data nightly" to the Oracle database and replace with a web service.
They want to go to real time information.


Sharon

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From: "Wintermute, Sharon"
They want to use RPG and the i5 as a web service. Anyone
have any recommendations on redbooks to start looking at?

Sharon,

I thought you might have a chance for an in-depth discussion on this
list. Booth Martin recently posted a question on one of the other lists
about a Web portal he was looking at. He got some good feedback, but
less than what I thought the topic deserved. One point in that
discussion that struck me was that Microsoft had implemented a Web
services interface to their product - SharePoint, instead of exposing
the database through the traditional ODBC (or equivalent) interface.

My initial, unspoken reaction was almost incredulity. Why would they do
that? Soap based Web services are a lot slower than traditional ODBC,
for example.

On the other hand, Mike Cunningham pointed out that he'd like to access
the Sharepoint database from IBM i based applications, which is one
point in favor of exposing the database through Web services.

We all know that Web services are growing, and that Microsoft and IBM
are investing in them, but IBM has chosen to position Java as its
base-line language for Web services. I just think there needs to be
more support on the RPG side of the fence.

Nathan.