Re: The OS/400-Java "impedence bump"

java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 12/06/2004 06:35:27 PM:

> Fellow Programmers:
>
> A colleague and I have been exploring ways to handle business
integration,
> and we're wondering about whether there's a good way (possibly using
> something in the Toolbox?) for an OS/400-native program to send messages
> to a Java program that's probably going to be running somewhere else.
>

What Joe P. said -- data queues -- are one nice sweet spot of functional
commonality between RPG and Java.

One wrinkle, though, is the 'somewhere else' you mentioned...  If that
'somewhere else' is on a separate machine (or even in a separate partition
on the same physical machine) I'd still use data queues to get from RPG ->
Java on the local machine, and then fold any and all inter-machine
communications into Java (where the sockets stuff is already built in and
readily available).  FWIW, I've never done sockets programming in RPG, and
maybe it's easy, but I don't believe it could be as easy as it is in Java.

Just my 2 cents.

-blair

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