Hi Steve,
Sockets through the firewall are difficult, *unless* you have some degree of
control over the firewall and can have a specific port opened for a specific
purpose (so clients would be allowed to establish connections through to a
specified port on your server). You could probably also set up CORBA or RMI
this way, though it's more difficult to justify from a security standpoint. If
you don't have control over the firewall you probably want to stick to standard
HTTP.
For the server side, if all you're doing with the COM components is data
exchange I'd suggest you use JNI calls from a servlet to native code wrappers
for the components. That way you're not locking yourself in any proprietary
technologies (other than the obvious <g>).
- Dennis
Dennis M. Sosnoski
Sosnoski Software Solutions, Inc.
http://www.sosnoski.com
Steven Lewis wrote:
>
> Whe have a problem where the data on the server is available through a
> series of COM objects we need to talk to a client through a firewall.
> Any experience doing this - what are my options
> I have looked at using the Microsoft VM and Routines from NevaObject
> but would like to know other options - especially in the area of how the
> client
> talks to the server - i.e. can I get sockets, RMI, Corba through the
> firewall
>
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