Re: Calling ILE procedures from EGL

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Justin Taylor wrote:
> STATEFULL calling of RPG programs is great!
>
> I also need to call RPGLE service programs from EGL.  I just completed the IBM EGL Distance Learning class last week.  The course material (available http://www.jsayles.com/ibm/) covered RPG program calls but not service programs.  I e-mailed Jon Sayles this morning with that question.
>
>   
Heeee!  You can thank me for that, Justin.  Well, you can thank the EGL 
team and in particular a brilliant gentleman by the name of Joe Vincens 
who listened to me as I ranted on and on about the need for stateful 
connections <grin>.  But once I made my point clear (about how a 
stateful connection allows me to keep cursors open and all that jazz on 
the server) he was absolutely on board and they made it happen.

With stateful calls, I can make hundreds of round trips between EGL and 
RPG in a second. It's really quite brilliant, and by far the fastest way 
to write and expose complex business logic.  SQL is nice when you have 
to read a bunch of records, but as soon as you have to do complex logic, 
RPG is the way to go!

Joe