I have been reading messages from this mailing list for a few weeks, plus I bought a few Java Networking
books - but I still can't get a feel for the best way to implement something that I need to do. I have a few
Java applications that need similar data. I have another Java application that is reading data from a socket
and writing the data to a database using JDBC. Now I want to move on to the next step. I want to write
something (I was thinking a servlet, but now I am not sure that is best - though I don't know what is) that
the JAVA applications (could be applets too) can register with and have the data that is written to the
database sent to them in the original packet that was read from the socket.
I know the data is now in the database, but they want the data in Near
Realtime - I will probably do the
broadcast (or whatever it will be) prior to the database write to get
it out as quickly as possible. The
data is being written to the socket by another - non JAVA (proprietary)
system. Has anyone done
anything similar? Any ideas? It was requested by the customer
to use HTTP at the transfer protocol,
but I am not sure that is hard and fast. I do know he wants an
"internet based" solution.
Thanks for any help.
Teri
