Re: Help calling java from RPG

Hi Chris,

The other alternative generally agreed upon by people who've Been There
after looking at JNI and its general grief, is to use messaging (which I
prefer) or data queues to handle communication between Java and other
programs. To date (since 1997), I've never had to use JNI, and I don't
expect to. In your case, you'd probably have to give up the many advantages
of asynchronous messaging, but you'd still save yourself a lot of (continuing) issues.

IMO, etc.


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----- Original Message ----- From: "James Perkins" <jrperkinsjr@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400"
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Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: Help calling java from RPG

Ah, I see where you are going. I think a good model is a Java front end
with
an RPG backend. You can easily call RPG programs using the Toolbox.

That being said, I've only played with it. I don't actually get to put
this
kind of process together very often.
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On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:06, Chris Beck <CBeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Well at this point it is just a Proof of concept, but we would like to
encapsulate our database activity in one place that we can be call from
anywhere. We currently have a lot of RPG and PHP code, but as a future
direction we are looking at Java so we were thinging this may be a good
place to start. I welcome any thoughts as to why or why not this is a
good
idea.

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