Re: Calling Java from RPG/COBOL -- JAVA400-L

Jon,

I would second the recommendation of a queue for any call intensive
operation.
I have used several techniques and one that works pretty well is a data
queue
that notifies of an action and passes a key (offset into a user space).
You can
go either direction with this technique and it is reasonably fast. One
advantage
is that you can easily multi thread your applications by using more
than one
listener on your data queue(s).

David Morris

>>> dawall@us.ibm.com 05/30/02 07:59AM >>>

To throw out one more idea, have you thought about using some sort of
program-to-program data passing instead of a direct call?  For example,
use
a data queue, a user space, or a data area.  Take data queues.  The
Java
program becomes a daemon job waiting for work by listening to the
queue.
When the RPG/COBOL program has work, it puts an entry on the queue
then
waits for a reply.  Maybe the worst consideration with this setup is
managing the Java daemon process.  How do you start it, how do you know
if
it is still active, what authority does it have, etc.  On the other
hand, a
benefit is you can move your Java app to a different machine if you
ever
need to distribute the work.  Toolbox has a DataQueue object that lets
you
access a queue on the same or a remote box.

David Wall
Toolbox for Java
iSeries ODBC Driver for Linux




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I'd like to hear from those of you with more "real world" experience
than
me
of the pros and cons of different methods of invoking a Java app from
RPG
and/or COBOL.  One specific item that I'm interested in is parameter
passing - and returning results from the Java code.  I've used the new
RPG
method call support and am aware of the pitfalls there, but that is
not
applicable to COBOL and JNI is just to darned ugly to want to consider
unless the alternative is a lobotomy!

Jon Paris
Partner400


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