Architecture advice

[AlistairMonkeyFinger]

Hiya,

I've been looking at some work on a legacy system, currently there are some C++ executables on a Linux server and a Jave GUI on a NT desktop talks to them by creating a JDBC connection to a Oracle database on the Linux box then calling the external functions from within the database using pipetalk protocols. I've found that this is very flaky but i still need to talk to the c++ files because they are using third party libraries to do stuff.

So, i need some advice about how to move this into more of a java world.

Ideas:
Use create a class using JNI to communicate with the C++ exe's

Then either run a apps server (JBoss /Orion) etc on the Linux box and set up some EJB's(would rather not do this becuase it seems overkill)
OR
Can i access the JNI class i have created using something like RMI (i'm afraid i have no direct experience of RMI) or set up a TCP server and client (we running entirely within an internal intranet) - i guess this would be easier / use less resource.

Ideas / comments ? Glad to hear anything you have to say.

Thanks

Alistair

 

[maxpower1]

i don't know about jBoss stuff.

but I currently use JNI to talk to the C library/tasks. I never have anyu problems. The good part about it is; you don't have to rewrite the C++ codes in java. C and C++ will prevail - so it's a fine thing that Java allows us to interface to the other languages using JNI. I like the fact that this action slices down our development cost thus increases project bonuses$$$

I currently use named-pipe to talk to the C-routine. So I am sure you can checkout java.sun.com website to find RMI and TCP/IP related items.

good luck

~za~
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