> We have a CFMX-based reservation application. There's a > software company that wants to partner with us to provide > some interoperability with a Win32 reservation management > application. Match made in heaven, right? > > The proposal is to have a "Get my reservations" button at > some location, which would send a delimited file to a > certain port on the requester's machine. The Win32 app will > constantly be listening to that port when it's running, and > will scan the destination directory where this file is supposed > to be placed on startup for any updates. When it finds/gets > updates, it will automatically drop all the data into whatever > structure it uses internally. > > So, I'm just starting to think my way through this one. > Assuming the port is open (we'll conveniently not think > about blocked ports, firewalls, ZoneAlarm or anything else > at this point), how would you think I should go about this? > The client won't have any server software on their end, so > I'll basically have to push a bunch of bytes to a specific > address:port and assume the machine lets me write it there. > Does CFMX have anything internal that might facilitate this, > or would I be better off writing an app and running it via > <cfexecute>?
I'm a little confused. Where will the Win32 application reside, exactly? Will it be on the end-users machine? If so, why not have the Win32 application just fetch the file itself, if it's running? It sounds like the approach you're proposing is a bit backwards. If you are going to proceed this way, good luck - I imagine that it simply won't work in many locations, because of the firewall issue you mention. However, in any case, you might find these useful: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/networking/sockets/ http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-1996/jw-12-sockets.html Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm
