Re: Help calling java from RPG

["Joe Sam Shirah" <joe_sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

   Hi Chris,

   The other alternative generally agreed upon by people who've Been There
after looking at JNI and its general grief, is to use messaging (which I
prefer) or data queues to handle communication between Java and other
programs.  To date (since 1997), I've never had to use JNI, and I don't
expect to. In your case, you'd probably have to give up the many advantages
of asynchronous messaging, but you'd still save yourself a lot of 
(continuing) issues.

   IMO, etc.


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Perkins" <jrperkinsjr@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400"
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Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: Help calling java from RPG


> Ah, I see where you are going. I think a good model is a Java front end
> with
> an RPG backend. You can easily call RPG programs using the Toolbox.
>
> That being said, I've only played with it. I don't actually get to put
> this
> kind of process together very often.
> --
> James R. Perkins
> http://twitter.com/the_jamezp
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:06, Chris Beck <CBeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Well at this point it is just a Proof of concept, but we would like to
> > encapsulate our database activity in one place that we can be call from
> > anywhere. We currently have a lot of RPG and PHP code, but as a future
> > direction we are looking at Java so we were thinging this may be a good
> > place to start.  I welcome any thoughts as to why or why not this is a
> > good
> > idea.
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