Hi!
First of all, thank you guys for your help. I realize this isn't an easy task and the one way we thought of to get around this was to simply put a file on the server which the C process is looking for. Quite dirty, I know.
The thing with the seperate C service looks very nice. Since I'm not that much of a JavaEE guy here's another problem: How do I dispatch HttpServletRequests from inside a client application? Up until now I have always invoked the servlet by calling the URL specified in the servlets url mapping. I want to be able to simply click a on button representing the corresponding function in the C DLL/SO.
I've checked in the API reference and looked at all the classes but so far I can't see how to get a hold of the necessary objects. Ok, connecting to an http server isn't that big a deal with the URL class but how to retrieve a ServletContext? I assume I'll especially need that class to get things going, correct?
Here's my current plan:
1. Establish a connection to the webserver
2. Invoke the servlet with a request indicating to start the C process manager
and retrieve the ServletContext so I can send further requests.
3. Get the interger value returned by the C methods back to the application via a ServletResponse when all stuff is done
Well, I might need a bit of help with this. :)
Thanks so much for your input so far!
- Thomas
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