RE: Arrays of Structures as a parameter in V5R1 -- RPG400-L

At 06:34 AM 8/26/2003, you wrote:

Just a suggestion here, but is it possible to pass the information via XML?
Maybe even make the RPG program a web service that can consume a simple XML
request and output XML?  It would be simple for Java to process the web
service and parse the result XML.  This would also make it a loosely coupled
connection which would allow other process to use the RPG web service
instead of just Java, _and_ you could have the same thing on a different
back end written in something other than RPG if they need ever arose

I had not thought of using XMT. We are dealing with a third party that already has most of the web applications created, we just need to specify and code all the interfaces in the next couple of months. They indicated that they have experience calling an RPGLE program from their end, so that is what we thought of. We also have the problem that our internal skill set (one full time, one part time programmer) does not include XML or parsing XML from RPG. Given our time constraints, I don't believe that we would have much time to develop the skills.

Do you know of any quick examples or tutorials on using XML with RPG? If we have some good samples to clone, it might be an option.

In the mean time, I will probably start with Duane's option 2 suggestion to use structures of arrays.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Dave Murvin
DRM Enterprises, Inc.

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