RE: Procedure Management Procedures

[bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx]

>From: "Jim Langston" <jlangston@celsinc.com>
>Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 14:18:00 -0700
> ...
>So, I had modules:
>DATETIME (Date/Time routines)
>SYSTEM   (System API call interfaces)
>CARTAGE  (Specific to the Cartage application)
>
>Service program CARTAGE contained all 3 modules.
>Service program GENERAL contained DATETIME and CARTAGE.
>
>So if I was writing a Cartage program I would use the CARTAGE
>service program.  If I was writing any other program, I would
>use the GENERAL service program.
>
>I am not sure if this is the proper way to do it, but I felt it
>was the best at the time.

Jim, I don't think that's the best way to do it.  That way, you
have the same code in two places which is the very problem that
service programs are supposed to alleviate.

A better way to do it would be to have the CARTAGE service program
only have the cartage-specific modules.  You could have two binding
directories, if you wanted to ensure that only Cartage programs
used the CARTAGE service program.  In your CARTAGE binding directory,
put both service programs.  In your GENERAL binding directory, just
put the GENERAL service program.

(It's ok to have the same service program in more than one binding
directory, because a binding directory is just a list that's only
used at compile time.)

Barbara Morris