Java - C++ socket communication

[manjaly]

Is it possible to communicate between a java application and a c++ application though sockets??

[Splatt]

It is possible, and I have done it several times. I don't know if it's possible in *all* cases. In my case the C++ application was listening on a port for incoming serialized data. The key here was that I had to figure out ahead of time the format that the C++ app expected the data in. I then wrote a Java app that could take the data I wanted to send and converted it to the correct format.

After that it was easy. Using java.comm I created a socket that connected to the port that the C++ app was listening on. My java application then wrote data to the port.

Let me know if you have any specific questions.

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