Re: Java and RPG - Registering Events

Larry wrote:
> 
> You may recall from some questions last week about calling Java from RPG 
> through prototyped calls.  The JAR I am using produces PDF output, it is 
> called iText and I got it working with RPG.
> 
> It does have some featured that require you to register an event handler and 
> then create the code that will fire off when the events are triggered.
> 
> Is there anyway to duplicate this when creating your classes through RPG?
> 

If you want to write the event handler in RPG, you can write it as
native methods.  You will also have to write a bit of Java, to create a
class for the native method(s) to belong to.  The ILE RPG Programmer's
Guide has the instructions for writing a native method.  (The actual
native method code is no different from an ordinary RPG subprocedure -
the only difference is that you prototype it as a Java method.)

But since you have to write a bit of Java anyway, it might be just as
easy to write the event handler entirely in Java.