I am seeking advice about interprocess communication between a Java application
and other, not necessarily Java, applications.
I am developing the Java application under Linux but want to be able to run it
under Windows. So far I have been using Linux FIFO's (named pipes) rather than
sockets. I am using FIFO's because it is easier to write shell scripts that
will create, read from and write to FIFO's than for sockets, and because there
does not seem to be a Java internal socket; i.e there seems to be no Java analog
of AF_UNIX (UNIX internal protocols) sockets.
So far this approach is working fine under Linux. I know nothing about Widows
or Windows programming. I am concerned how portable this will be to Windows.
Steve Bankes
