[Info-vax] message communication (VMS <> PC)

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 18-01-2010 14:35, Marc Van Dyck wrote:
> RLFitch has brought this to us :
>> I'm looking for ideas on how to establish communication between VMS
>> Fortran and MS Visual Basic to exchange short messages on LAN. This
>> can be synchronous or asynchronous, serial or ethernet.
>
> MQ Series (or its equivalent in the Opensource world, Active MQ,
> if it has been ported to OpenVMS) ?

The message queue only need to be running on an available system
and one of the client libraries need to be ported to OpenVMS.

But given that ActiveMQ is pure Java with not native code, then
it should be easy to get it running on VMS. Porting should be
a matter of creating a startup script.

Arne