Sorry for the partial post, life is a pain for those of us forced to use MS Outlook! (Especially it's "helpful feature of encoding all plain text messages as HTML. Sorry Linux users!)
Anyway the full post continues below.
I have an app that is a mix of Jboss, Tomcat, and a custom socket server. The socket server is a media repository that will serve as a back-end to my EJBs in JBoss. Think of the socket server as a kind of specialized FTP site. The socket server is a replacement for the unreliable support of BLOBs in Oracle.
The integration between the socket server and the EJBs is no big deal. What I am wondering is if I can use the socket server to integrate a (ugh) Visual Basic client to my infrastructure. One group of end users will be producing content. They use a tool that is a VB client automating MS Word, I'd like to have this VB client to be able to interact with my socket server to allow the users to "post" content to the repository.
Does anyone have experience in integrating Java and other enviroments (C, Visual Basic, etc.) via Sockets.
I'd rather not have to try writing a full FTP or SOAP server in Java. I just need something that is quick and dirty.
As an alternate solution, is their a good way in Java to monitor the contents of a directory for when a file gets placed in the directory (for example as a result of an FTP upload)? How do you know the complete file is there?
Thanks
Dave Bolt
There is always plenty of bandwidth, just none for you.
