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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 18-01-2010 15:30, CY wrote:
>> MQ Series (or its equivalent in the Opensource world, Active MQ,
>> if it has been ported to OpenVMS) ?
>
> Yes it has been ported, but the disadvantage of relying on java if I
> dont remember wrong.
> So Fortran<->JNI/Java<->Active MQ<->JNI/Java<->VB is as what I think
> will be the case.... we when testing this go a C step in there also,
> just because I dont know fortran/java directly and would have done teh
> same on the other end (didnt, client was java.) but then it would be
> Fortran<->C<->JNI/Java<->Active MQ<->JNI/Java<->C<->VB
> But, that using what we already had in fortran and C knowledge as we
> where playing around..
> And it was not with AMQ, but another product, not OS.

ActiveMQ has client libraries for many other languages than Java.
That includes C, so all the JNI and Java stuff can be removed
from the above.

> Raw socket is always nice, if you can stand it ;)

It is not that bad.

Arne