Re: Communicating between java & rpg?

[Evan Harris <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

David

Given that the processes will be on separate systems have you thought about 
MQ ? What you are describing sounds like a good scenario for MQ rather than 
trying to deal with all the process etc issues yourself.

regards
Evan Harris


>Folks:
>
>We've got a project brewing where we have to communicate between java & rpg.
>The java program is not necessarily going to be running on the 400 (in fact,
>probably won't be).
>
>We're planning on using the Toolkit (probably JTOpen, but not 100% sure yet)
>to implement remote data queue listeners.
>
>I'm curious if anyone knows of a "Recommended" way of using data queues for
>inter system communication?
>
>Also, does anyone know of a way to handle "Process Death" on either side of
>the connection?  If I were using TCP, I would just look for a closed socket.
>With a dataqueue, the potential exists for the remote process (the one that
>feeds the data queue) to die and the local process (the one that eats the
>data queue) to just wait forever.
>
>Thanks!
>
>david

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