The EntireX RPC-ACI Bridge allows standard RPC clients to communicate with an ACI server. The RPC-ACI Bridge transforms the RPCs from the clients into ACI messages. The RPC-ACI Bridge acts on one side as an RPC server and on the other side as an ACI client. In this documentation we distinguish between the Broker for RPC, which sends the RPCs from the client to the server side of the RPC-ACI Bridge and the Broker for ACI, which sends the messages to the ACI server. These two brokers can be the same instance. Use distinct services for the RPCs and ACI.

The RPC-ACI Bridge can connect to ACI servers in any language. We describe the use of Natural and COBOL ACI servers. For existing COBOL programs you can use the COBOL IDL Generator to generate the IDL file for the RPC clients.

The RPC-ACI Bridge supports RPC clients in different programming languages.