Three options that I am aware of:
1)reading from stdin works, or
2)open a tcpip port and do request through that.
3)modify a file, and signal it (never done this, but I think it works)
Dave
On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 16:39, Eric Frazier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Comunicating with the outside world(UNIX) is what you would be missing, that
> is what Posix is about. But I was finding it a little daunting. I have to
> be able to send to or pipe to it from shell applications, but once you run a
> normal app like you suggest, it gets its args[] and then how do you change
> them for the next query?
>
> thanks,
>
> Eric
>
> At 07:01 PM 1/11/03 -0500, Dave Cramer wrote:
> >Eric,
> >
> >Just create a class, put a main in it, and loop forever?
> >
> >That's all there is to it, unless I'm missing something.
> >
> >Dave
> >On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 14:59, Eric Frazier wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have a very small Java application that connects to a remote host's DB and
> >> does a simple query. I don't want to install a big framwork like Tomcat just
> >> to do this one task, but it is pretty slow as it is running though a CGI
> >> wrapper, and the startup time of the JVM is pretty noticeable.
> >>
> >> I do know that there is a daemon tools project from the Jakarta project, and
> >> that there is also a Posix libary for Java. But I can't seem to find an
> >> example of anyone acutlay using those to make a java daemon. The whole
> >> reason I am using Java at all is because of JDBC, I tend to think that Java
> >> itself can take a flying leap, except that I just drool over JDBC, love it,
> >> love it! So if any of you have any pointers or URLs that would be great.
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >>
> >> Eric
> >>
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