Re: Initiating SOAP Request from RPG Using Sockets

My point is anyone can be a jerk.

If you cant contribute to the discussion in a positive manner, stay out.



Joe Pluta wrote:

From: Andrew Papada

Thanks for the response (I guess)...I'll try to be more professional

in

mine:

Walden might have been a bit sarcastic, but I think he was right on
point: use the right tool for the job.

Yes, I'm very well aware of that there are plenty of easy ways to do
this in Java, I am J2EE engineer.  I'm writing this on behalf of some
folks in our OMS group which is comprised of RPG developers and the
director of that group would like to keep it RPG if possible so not to
introduce a learning curve in a critical point within the project.

Walden's point is that this is better done in Java.  There are a LOT of
things better done in Java and you're far better off introducing a piece
of Java (tested and working) than trying to rewrite the same thing in
scratch from RPG.

Additionally, if you invoke the Java class from your transactional RPG
application by prototyping the method, you're creating a new JVM every
time you invoke it, thereby decreasing your performance on a system

that

can ill-afford to be maxed out.

Not true.  You don't create a new JVM, you create one on the first call.
There are other options as well, such as having a server job waiting for
requests.

The point still is that rewriting SOAP in RPG is probably a waste of
resources.

Joe