Re: Java and RPG (RE: Catch 'n release MONITOR'd message)

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> *You* could do it.  But could any of us (who don't possess your thorough
> knowledge of socket programming) do it in 10-12 hours?  Not hardly.

It was just a suggestion...   For me, it would be easier to write from
scratch than deal with the problems of calling Java from RPG for something
this simple.

It's just my opinion, nobody says you have to agree.  I just wanted to put
my 2 cents out there.

> But there are a million documented examples of people using the JavaMail
> API, and a nice redbook that deals with calling Java methods from RPG.

Does that documentation tell you how to solve these error trapping
problems?   The only docs I know of are the ones in the ILE RPG
Programmer's guide, which are very short and sad.

> And that's not the only place we're using it.  I need to convert image file
> formats on our iSeries.  What we're using now can only convert from MO:DCA
> to GIF, and the company that wrote it went out of business.  But I can find
> plenty of Java solutions for this, and have bought one and wrapped it with
> RPG.  We have a need to read barcodes in image files (TIFF's, GIF's, etc.),
> and I can't find a single iSeries solution that will do this.  Again, we're
> going with Java, wrapped with RPG.  Would I rather have pure iSeries code?
> Absolutely.  But in the meantime, I've got to get my projects done.

My advice was only on the topic of e-mail, and other relatively simple
things.  I would certainly not advocate using RPG for translating barcodes
to images.