The direction BMC is moving is toward Java. I would not expect that further enhancements would be made to C-based development tools. While I know of no plans to drop support for them, you'll most likely see such areas move into "maintenance mode" where functionality is retained at the level it is today.
There do seem to be projects that will enable one to embed Perl into Java if that is the limitation. A quick Google brings up: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Inline-Java/ The Inline::Java module allows you to put Java source code directly "inline" in a Perl script or module. A Java compiler is launched and the Java code is compiled. Then Perl asks the Java classes what public methods have been defined. These classes and methods are available to the Perl program as if they had been written in Perl. -David J. Easter Manager of Product Management, AR System BSM & Atrium Solutions Management BMC Software, Inc. The opinions, statements, and/or suggested courses of action expressed in this E-mail do not necessarily reflect those of BMC Software, Inc. My voluntary participation in this forum is not intended to convey a role as a spokesperson, liaison or public relations representative for BMC Software, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Grooms, Frederick W Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 2:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Plugin Server The problem is if I create a c plugin I have to compile it as a 32 bit binary. This does not work if I have to link in the Oracle client (as the environment is set up for using the 64 bit oracle client with arserverd). What I would love to see is BMC compile a 64 bit version "arplugin64" so I could run it without affecting the BMC supplied plugins (I already run a separate instance of the plugin server on a separate TCP port to keep my plugins, like the ARFPerl plugin, from interfering with the BMC LDAP plugins). I can't use the Java plugin server as you can't embed Perl inside Java. Fred -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Easter, David Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 3:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Plugin Server ** The 7.6.04 Java Plug-in Server supports a 64-bit JVM. >From What's New: BMC Remedy Action Request System 7.6.04 - 64-bit JVM support for Java plug-in server and Full Text Search (FTS) Is there a specific issue you've encountered? -David J. Easter Manager of Product Management, AR System BSM & Atrium Solutions Management BMC Software, Inc. The opinions, statements, and/or suggested courses of action expressed in this E-mail do not necessarily reflect those of BMC Software, Inc. My voluntary participation in this forum is not intended to convey a role as a spokesperson, liaison or public relations representative for BMC Software, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of patrick zandi Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 1:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Plugin Server ** is is 32bit.. sorry.. missed a word -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of patrick zandi Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 1:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Plugin Server ** on Solaris it is : I am seeing the libarpluginjni80_build001.so is ELF 32bit MSB dynamic lib sparc32plus version 1.. so no.. on the sparc side Patrick Zandi -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Grooms, Frederick W Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 2:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Plugin Server ** Does anyone know if ARS v8 contains a 64 bit version of the Plugin server process for Linux? For 7.6.04 SP3 (AR Plugin Server 7.6.04 SP3 201201302357) the arplugin binary is ELF 32-bit LSB executable Fred _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years" _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
