RE: Calling Java from RPG

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Bramley, Stu
> 
> I'm sorry, that went right over my head (doesn't take much!) - are you
> saying that the alternative is to have batch server jobs with their
own
> JVM
> creating 'shared' instances of Java objects and then have client RPG
> programs queue processing requests in data queues that the server jobs
> read
> off and return results/pointers?

Exactly!  If you need persistence between calls, you'd have to create a
session object and then pass an identifier back and forth with each
call, but a server job is the only way I know of to force the use of a
specific JVM.

It would be nice to be able to "attach" to a JVM that was already
running anywhere in the system.  We've been asking for this forever, but
the folks at IBM insist it's too hard to do.

Joe