Re: PHP to RPG - "tight" integration

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Personally, I don't use PCML, I use the standard toolbox classes.  But I
don't know of any seven-parameter limitations except on service programs.
On the other hand, dates are still tough, though not impossible: you define
the parameter as an array of bytes and then use the DateTimeConverter class
to convert the date to a usable value.

Anyway, I suspect your problems arise from your application architecture;
your service programs have lots of small methods that return values, much
like getters in an OO environment.  Me, I pass data structures between
programs; it works much better.  I never have to worry about having too many
parameters, and I can pass structures inside of structures with no problems.

Joe


> From: albartell
>
> The last I used Java's integration to RPG, specifically PCML, I made some
> good progress but then was stopped by a brick wall.  The brick wall was a
> limitation on the number of parameters that could be passed (i.e. seven
> parms max at the time), the lack of being able to pass date data types,
> and
> the lack of being able to pass back anything other than an int in the
> passback parm of an RPG sub procedure.