RE: Messaging to a Service

Michael,

Are you saying create a service on Windows and have that service "wait"
for something like a dataq, but in the windows space? I see you said you
were using rexec, but I got the feeling you were looking to replace
that. What would invoke this request? I don't mean from a technology
point of view -- I think that's the question you're asking -- but I mean
from a platform question. Who is consuming this service? Other VB apps
on the same machine? Other VB on another machine, RPG on iSeries? 

Based on the answer to whose consuming the service there are several
options, from web services to MQSeries, to MSMQ, to indeed using dataqs
on the iSeries. 

-Walden


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Sent: Monday, 14 March, 2005 11:10
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Subject: [PCTECH] Messaging to a Service

Here's my condundrum. I have some VB applications that are executed on
the PC under a specific user ID. The invocation is via rexec, so the
user id is passed in. A normal user has little authority, and they
don't have the authority to run these applications. So I was thinking
of creating a service that would run under the priveleged user and
execute the applications for the unprivledged user.

Question: How do I send a message to the service? I could do something
like changing a file and having the service poll the file, but that
seems 'busy'. I guess I could do it with sockets, but that seems like
more effort than I want to spend. What I really want to do is have the
service wait on a data queue <smile>. 

All ideas appreciated...


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