Teri,
Though I haven't done much of it myself, it sounds like what you might need
is an RMI connection between your application which is reading the socket
and the clients, applets most likely, that need to see it.
----- Original Message -----
From: Teri Vokus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 1:07 PM
Subject: Java Networking / Servlet? question
> >
>
> 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
>
>
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