>Where is the failure point that prevents an iSeries from doing the
same?

Technically speaking there isn't one. COM (or more technically, DCOM --
Distributed COM) defines an over-the-wire protocol for invoking COM
objects on remote machines. However, COM is a very deep and wide tree,
one object relies on another, which is built on 3 others, each of which
need 7 others, etc. And I'm not aware of anyone even trying to implement
DCOM on another platform, let alone iSeries. And the stuff I saw about
the Java-COM bridge made it clear they were doing JNI calls to COM, not
implementing DCOM on non-COM enabled machines.

So, in summary, academically speaking, it's possible, but you'd have to
write TONS of code, in reality, it's not possible.

-Walden

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Tech Software
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WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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(Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)


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