Why do you want to go through all this trouble ?
Why don't you just use Voyager from ObjectSpace www.objectspace.com
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael.Sinz [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, October 23, 1998 2:04 PM
To: java-linux; steve
Cc: Michael.Sinz; norm
Subject: Re: Interprocess Communication with a Java Application
On Fri, 23 Oct 1998 10:03:56 -0700, Steve Bankes wrote:
>
>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.
The only real IPC in Java that is platform independant is via the
network
I/O classes. This also happens to work rather well between
machines, not
just between processes. Now, it is not light weight.
Windows NT has a think known as a "named pipe" the is much like a
fifo.
However, it requires special code to create/manage one.
Connecting to
one (being sender usually) is trivial and even works over the
network
from Windows 95 and Windows 98. However, the other end requires
NT.
Again, sockets or UDP are very handy and with 127.0.0.1 it even
should work
reasonably fast. (Loopback address) And, it is easy (or at least
easier)
to work over the network to systems of different platforms even.
I do this
a lot with normal sockets and RMI and serialization. (All three
in one
program even, but usuaully just sockets since that works almost
everywhere)
Michael Sinz -- Director of Research & Development, NextBus Inc.
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --------- http://www.nextbus.com
My place on the web ---> http://www.users.fast.net/~michael_sinz
