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Charlie Vigue <CVigue@BendNET.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the reply.
>
>David Orriss Jr. wrote:
>
>> Considering that they are both for WinTel-specific codebases that appear to
>> already exist, why do you want to write them in a platform independent tool like
>> Java?  Aside from that question, this *may* be possible via the Java Native
>> Interface or JNI to do this, but if you haven't done *any* previous Java coding
>> this will be difficult, to say the least
>
>I want to avoid JNI, since portability is a goal here.The DDE server and the NT
>driver will be running on Windows (Intel HW) but Iwould like non Windows users on
>networked machines to be able to run both Java
>programs. Is this possible, or would I have to create a user mode Win32 layer
>to talk to DDE or the device driver and then in turn expose an interface
>(pipe? socket?) that Java could hook into? What forms of IPC are supported in
>Java and available in all Java platforms?

But if you are trying to access Windows DLL's portability goes out the window.
I mean.. how do you intend to access Windows DLL's within say.. a UNIX box?  

One way that *might* be possible would be to implement CORBA technology and
re-write your DLL's to be CORBA compliant.  Then you could access the routines
in the DLL's over a network.  I will admit tho that I have done little with
CORBA and you'd prolly want to ask for input on this in
borland.public.jbuilder.corba-rmi.

Take care and good luck.  Let me know if I can offer any other advice.


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