JAVA & VB Socket Communication

[acefusion]

hi


pl. help for communicating between VB (client) and JAVA(server).



any possibility passing Data from JAVA/EJB to VB through Socket Communication.

i am successfull passing data the from Server(java) to Vb(client) as a String using Sockets.


other than String any other possiblity, passing data from SERVER(JAVA) to CLient (VB)

pl. help me finding the solution.

thanks in advance.
bye

[plenderj]

TCP Sockets are pretty much so programming language independant.
So a listening TCP socket created using {TCL, VB, Java, C, C++, ...} can be connected to via a connecting socket created using {TCL, VB, Java, C, C++, ...}.

So as long as the sockets are there, you can send what you want ...

[ccoder]

I have some VB apps that send/receive records (aka UDTs) to/from C programs. Some of the records are:

Public Type dclStdHeader                          ' current length - 52
            ttl_len               As Long         ' long  ttl_len;
            msgtype               As Long         ' long  msgtype;
            orig_id               As Long         ' long  orig_id;
            seq_num               As Long         ' long  seq_num;
            tran_type             As Long         ' long  tran_type;
            curr_wndw             As Long         ' long  curr_wndw;
            curr_req              As Integer      ' short curr_req
            user_def              As String * 26  ' char  user_def[26];
       End Type
Public Type dclMonitorReq
            req_hdr               As String * 52  ' holder for dclStdHeader
            reqid                 As Integer      ' short request;
            system                As Integer      ' short system;
            index                 As Integer      ' short index;
            lines                 As Integer      ' short linecnt;
            byType                As Integer      ' char  byType;
            getMonitor            As Byte         ' char  byMonitor;
            getprocs              As Byte         ' char  getprocs;
            getexceps             As Byte         ' char  getexceps;
            getgeneric            As Byte         ' char  getgeneric;
            byCust                As String * 8   ' char  cust[8];
            byProc                As String * 8   ' char  proc[8];
            workstation           As String * 8   ' char  workstation[8];
            userid                As String * 8   ' char  userid[8];
       End Type

Is this what you need to do? If so, I can send you a sample client/server app that passes a UDT containing an Integer and 2 fixed length strings. It is well commented to explain what the code is doing.