RE: Communicating with COM objects from iSeries via Java?

Scott,

 Now I understand that COM is more than passing a data structure to an
API, it is a protocol. Which is more than I knew yesterday, thanks.

 I just Googled ti-rpc and got 16,000 hits. More studying to do...

JK

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>> 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?
>
> Nothing prevents it, except that COM and DCOM (distributed COM, which is
> what you're actually talking about) is a very windows-centric protocol
> that was designed and implemented by Microsoft with Windows in mind. You
> could write it for the iSeries if you really wanted to, but why?  It would
> make more sense to use a web service.  Or TI-RPC, which is much more
> platform-neutral.  And the iSeries already has both of those and much
> more.