connecting java and c

[rani_techie]

Hello All,
One of my co worker in the company is having a wierd problem. He has a gui which is implemented in java. Where he has a text box in which user has to give some input. Now he has to retrieve this value from the text box using a c program because the firmware supports c language. So, how can we do that in c .. .is there any interface that connects java gui and c together ??? or suggest any other way of dealing things like this..


any input is appreciated...

thanks,
Rani

[Lindley]

It's certainly possible; CORBA can do it (but is probably overkill in this case).

The simplest thing may be to spawn the GUI from the C program as a separate process, and communicate with it via pipes.

[rani_techie]

Let me understand what u mean...

create a thread in c which would separately interact with java program with the help of corba. ryt ??

[Paul McKenzie]

Hello All,
One of my co worker in the company is having a wierd problem. He has a gui which is implemented in java. Where he has a text box in which user has to give some input. Now he has to retrieve this value from the text box using a c program

Why must the value be retrieved from the textbox directly in C? Why can't the Java program read the value entered in the textbox, and then send that value to a C module?

In this case, use JNI.

Regards,

Paul McKenzie