named pipe in java

[Bruintje Beer]

Hi,

Is it possible in java to communicate through a named pipe on unix systems ?

thanks

John

 

[Gordon Beaton]

Is it possible in java to communicate through a named pipe on unix
systems ?

Named pipes look just like files to your application.

You can't create them from Java without an external helper, but you
can write to them and read from them with FileOutputStream and
FileInputStream.

/gordon

 

[Roedy Green]

Is it possible in java to communicate through a named pipe on unix systems ?

if there is a way to disguise them as filenames you could. Java's
pipes are for internal communication only.

See http://mindprod.com/applets/fileio.html

for how to write i/o with Java style pipes.

You could of course always write some JNI.

See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jni.html