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  Re: Interplatform (interprocess, interlanguage) communication Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-02-03 19:13 -0400

#11729 — Re: Interplatform (interprocess, interlanguage) communication

On 12-02-03 03:52 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>   »X« below is another language than Java, for example,
>   VBA, C#, or C.
> 
>   When an X process and a Java process have to exchange
>   information on the same computer, what possibilites are
>   there? The Java process should act as a client, sending
>   commands to the X process and also wants to read answers
>   from the X process. So, the X process is a kind of server.
> 
>   My criteria are: reliability and it should not be extremely
>   slow (say exchanging a string should not take more than
>   about 10 ms). The main criterion is reliability.
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> 
>   Files
> 
>   One process writes to the end of a file, the other reads
>   from the end of the file? - I never tried this, don't know
>   if it is guaranteed to work that one process can detect and
>   read, whether the other has just appended something to a file.
> 
>   What if the processes run very long and the files get too
>   large? But OTOH this is very transparent, which makes it easy
>   to debug, since one can open the files and directly inspect
>   them, or even append commands manually with »copy con file«.
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A logical subset of files for IPC is database tables.

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