Returning String back to RPG.

I've just started playing with Java on the iSeries.

 

Our young Java programmer has developed a class which will return a
variable length string. I will be invoking this through an ILE RPG
program.

 

In RPG I presumed that this would be a *varying declaration, but then I
realized that a string in Java is an object.

 

I know that there is an object type in RPG, but this is only to manage
the interface to calling Java methods.

 

What is the correct technique for passing back a varying length
character 'string' when RPG is calling Java?

 

Thanks.

 

 


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