How do I call a Java program from Enterprise COBOL? 1

[amikantorow]

Hello,

How do I call a Java program from an Enerprise Cobol DB2
store procedure? I must pass it a string value?

 

[MarcLodge]

See here:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoc...jsp?topic=/com.ibm.entcobol4.doc/rpjav16e.htm

for an example of an Enterprise Cobol program calling Java.

Is this what you were looking for?

Marc

 

[amikantorow]

Thanks, I saw this example in the Enterprise COBOL manual
I was not sure how to use it since I do not know Java at all.
Is InitialContext the name of the Java program?

Thanks,
Ami

 

[MarcLodge]

Ami,
I think you'll need to talk to somebody at your installation about the Java program that you are calling. Unless this is the first time that this has been done at your install, there will be examples of what you are trying to do. It seems to me from what you have written that the Java program is already written. There may well be a Cobol program that already calls this specific Java program.

I'm not a Java programmer and have not written a Cobol program that interfaces with Java, so the following should be taken with extreme caution:

The example given on the IBM website looks to be calling a Java program called "MyConverter", this is narrowed down further to a paragraph (for want of a better analogy) called ConverterHome. The parameters appear to passed in variables referenced currencyConverter.dollarToYen or currencyConverter.yenToEuro.

As I said earlier, I know little about Java, but feel sure that others here with far more knowledge than me, may be able to correct my assumptions if incorrect.

Regards,

Marc

 

[amikantorow]

Thanks, this helps. I am the first one to do this at my shop.
I am the lucky choosen one. The java program is written
by a java programmer for my interface.

Be well and happy,
Ami