RE: Communicating with COM objects from iSeries via Java?

Walden,

 And that is the just sort of thing I was trying to determine before I
sink any more research time into this project. Thanks.

 To recap your post: a "Java-COM bridge" running on the iSeries will not
allow an iSeries program (RPG, Java, whatever) to talk to a PC product
using the COM interface.

 At the risk of getting too off-topic, would someone be kind enough to
provide this iSeries dinosaur with a brief explanation of why this won't
work? I had hoped that "the COM interface" described a set of parameters
that could be passed to a process running on a PC but it sounds like COM
is more than that. My PC uses COM when it sends faxes to the WinFax
server, so I know COM supports communication between separate machines.
Where is the failure point that prevents an iSeries from doing the same?

Many thanks, JK

>>I have some small experience calling Java from RPG
>>and on the surface it seems like this ought to work...
>
> COM is a Windows creation, you'll need to run your code on a windows
> box. From the IBM site: "The RJCB technology uses the Java Native
> Interface (JNI) framework to bridge Java code and COM code." Since
> they're basically hopping out of Java and into COM via JNI you'll need
> to be on a box that support COM -- and that's a windows box.
>
> This isn't to say it won't work, just to say your Java will have to be
> on the PC, so you'll need to figure out a triggering mechanism for the
> iSeries to tell the PC to fax something, and it may be simpler to do the
> PC code in something that's COM-aware (c#/VB/C++/etc) in the first place
> since you need to be on the PC anyway.
>
> -Walden