Communication between java and c++, help!

Question

i am c++ programmer and newly to java.
now i am developping a client/server app. i use java transfers data (socket) between client and server, and use c++ to create user interfaces because c++ is easier for interfaces.
my question is:
in a single PC, java needs to tell c++ what info was read from socket and c++ needs to tell java what info will be written to socket.
i want to use 2 files (read and write) as media between java and c++. that is: java writes data to a file and c++ reads from the file, and vice versa.
i know it's not efficient. could you tell me better way to do?
thanks in advance.

Answer 1

thanks for reply.
my problem is: socket is fare in java, not fare in c++
(win/nt). could u use server in a non nt-server
machine with c++?I'm not sure what you mean "fair". NT-Server is just a version of NT that Microsoft adds their server products to. Most of which you don't want to use because they are a security nightmare. I think what your asking is can you do the equivalent of Java's ServerSocket in C++. Sure, the socket libraries in Windows (at least last time I checked) were based off the BSD socket libraries. So you would basically do something like:
// Open socket
ss=socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
if(ss==-1)
  cerr<<"Error opening socket."<<endl;
  return 0;
// Fill in address
struct sockaddr_in server;
server.sin_family=AF_INET;
server.sin_port=htons((unsigned short)port);
server.sin_addr.s_addr=INADDR_ANY;
// Bind to port
if(bind(ss, (struct sockaddr *)&server, sizeof(server))==-1)
  cerr<<"Could not bind to port "<<port<<"."<<endl;
  return 0;
// Ready to accept connections
if(listen(ss, 5)==-1)
  cerr<<"Could not listen."<<endl;
  return 0;
// Loop to accept connections
while(/* some condition */)
  // Accept a connection
  int s=accept(ss, 0, 0);
}This should work on any version of windows as long as you have winsock. The example code might need to be changed a little though since I copied it from a Linux program I had.