Re: RPG as Web service

[Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen <ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Walden H. Leverich skrev:
> > Hence, you need to have a web server to handle the communication, 
> > and that is as far as I know not easy to do in RPG.
> >     
>
> I'm not sure I'd want to write a general purpose web server in RPG (I'm not sure I'd want to write one period) but if all you're doing is receiving web service requests and you can marry the "web server" to the back-end I would think this would be rather straight forward. Accept TCP connection, hand off to separate thread/job, process request, return result end thread/job.
>   
Can RPG do sockets?  If so, it might be possible to port one of Jeff 
Poskanzers tiny servers written in C to ILE.

See

http://acme.com/software/micro_httpd/ (which is invoked once per request)

http://acme.com/software/mini_httpd/  (which is forking)

/Thorbjørn