Sharing data between processes

[rboarman]

Hello,

I am new to developing extensions. Please accept my apology if this is
a stupid question.

What I am trying to do is to develop an extension that reads data from
a windows service written in C# running on the same machine.

I have a similar IE BHO plug-in that uses remoting to accomplish this.

What are my choices for communicating between processes on the same
machine? I am looking to read structured data such as a .Net DataView/
DataTable or XML.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Rick

[white...@fastmail.us]

Maybe start by looking at what interfaces are available. I'd look inder
"Network" here (http://www.xulplanet.com/references/xpcomref/).

[Nickolay Ponomarev]

Usually using sockets is suggested in cases like this and there's a
tutorial about sockets on XULPlanet.

Nickolay

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[rboarman]

On Oct 30, 6:37 am, "Nickolay Ponomarev" <asquee...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Usually using sockets is suggested in cases like this and there's a
> tutorial about sockets on XULPlanet.
>
> Nickolay
>

> On 10/30/07, whitedav...@fastmail.us <whitedav...@fastmail.us> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Maybe start by looking at what interfaces are available. I'd look inder
> > "Network" here (http://www.xulplanet.com/references/xpcomref/).
>
> > rboarman wrote:
> > > Hello,
>
> > > I am new to developing extensions. Please accept my apology if this is
> > > a stupid question.
>
> > > What I am trying to do is to develop an extension that reads data from
> > > a windows service written in C# running on the same machine.
>
> > > I have a similar IE BHO plug-in that uses remoting to accomplish this.
>
> > > What are my choices for communicating between processes on the same
> > > machine? I am looking to read structured data such as a .Net DataView/
> > > DataTable or XML.
>
> > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> > > Rick
>
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Sockets is the path I have been heading down. I am also considering
simply using a flat file (json or xml) for the same purpose. The
windows service would keep the file up-to-date. The UI in both
browsers would read from the file to fill a dropdown every time the
user clicks on it.

Has anyone come up with a way to consume a .Net remoting server from a
Java client? Reading a .Net object serialized by a remoting server
would be perfect.

People complain about using .Net and BHOs to do IE plug-ins, but
honestly, getting one running, including the remoting part, took about
two hours. Getting the java side to work will take days.

Thank you for your help.

Rick