At 08:16 AM 9/18/2000 -0400, Celine LEFEBVRE wrote:

There are at least four ways, all of them off-topic...

(1) communicate by sockets; this is traditional, shown in lots of books including Ch9, "Beyond JavaScript", of my own "JavaScript Objects" (Wrox 98, Nakhimovsky&Myers); I guess we also used it in _Pro Java XML_ (Wrox 99) but not as a standalone example... (2) the "Remote Method Invocation" system; look at the java.rmi package and its subpackages in the docs, or Sun's tutorials; (3) set up your "other machine" with a web server which can invoke servlet or CGI, then pass it the data as if within an html textarea; (4) I use Runtime.exec() mostly to invoke simple Visual Basic stuff which in turn invokes image-conversion routines; the O'Reilly _VB & VBA In A Nutshell_ seems to say VB has no trouble with its own version of RMI, invoking automation servers. I've never done it.

I can't think of any mysql-based way to handle it, though of course the data could be in mysql rather than a file. :-) Does anybody know one?