RE: Communicating with COM objects from iSeries via Java?

["Simonse, Arco \(CMK\)" <ArcoSimonse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Rich wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, johnking@xxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > We have a requirement to fax certain documents to users who do not 
> > have email. The iSeries fax products I've seen so far are primarily 
> > designed to translate and deliver spool files. We, on the other
hand,
> > need to push PDF and Excel files that happen to be stored on the
IFS.
> 
> The primary difference between what we did and your situation 
> is that we use hylafax (http://www.hylafax.org) instead of 
> winfax.  We chose hylafax for two reasons:  1) it runs on 
> linux and 2) it has a java communication package called 
> gnu.hylafax (http://www.net-foundry.com/java/gnu/hylafax/). 
> gnu.hylafax does all the hard work and since it is java it 
> runs on the iSeries.
> 
> We created a java wrapper for the gnu.hylafax interface to 
> make calling it from RPG simpler.  The documents we are 
> faxing are postscript files, but PDFs work equally well.  

We are also using Hylafax to fax from our iSeries. It's a very great and
stable solution.
The way we communicate with the Hylafax box is via FTP using Scott
Klement's FTPAPI.
If you're interested I can provide example code.

Best regards,
Arco Simonse
pgmr