Sending the current buffer to a Java application.

[Rob Shaw]

I'm interested in sending a buffer to the stdin of a Java
application, have it process the input stream, and stream the
results back via stdout into the original emacs buffer.

There are many possible uses for such a configuration.
For example, one could create an english to german conversion
utility.  The idea here is that such utilities could be written
in Java as opposed to elisp.

Does anybody have some sample code or know of any sample code
that I could look at?

Thanks,
Rob