<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Another thing I forgot to mention in the blog post is that this same principle works for any native language calls. For instance, we're also creating listeners that run functions inside C++ DLLs on win32 boxes. <div><br></div><div>The obvious: why not just use the native clients? Our C++ developers use VisualStudio 2003 on old XP boxes, for one... No C# or .NET anywhere. Just plain C++ and some boost library usage.</div><div><br></div><div>We bought a copy of VS2008 the other day and I think they're trying to get something hacked up using that.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><div><br>Jon Brisbin</div><div>Portal Webmaster</div><div>NPC International, Inc.</div><br></div></span></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div>On Apr 13, 2010, at 10:22 AM, Jon Brisbin wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I'm trying to document as much of what we're doing here at NPC as possible. If I can't release source code, I'm trying to do the next best thing and explain what we're doing.<br><br>In trying to make the AS/400 a first-class member of our cloud architecture, we need to open up the RPG-language service programs to other callers via RabbitMQ, so any language that has a client binding can call RPG programs. I wrote a generic MessageRouter (that isn't OpenSource, unfortunately) that handles incoming messages and dispatches them to RPG service programs.<br><br>I've tried to lay out the process in a new blog post:<br><a href="http://jbrisbin.wordpress.com/2010/04/13/exposing-as400-service-programs-via-rabbitmq-and-java/">http://jbrisbin.wordpress.com/2010/04/13/exposing-as400-service-programs-via-rabbitmq-and-java/</a><br><br>I don't know how many people are actually using RabbitMQ in conjunction with the AS/400, but I hope this is helpful, nonetheless...<br><br>Jon Brisbin<br>Portal Webmaster<br>NPC International, Inc.</div></blockquote></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>