Using socket or CGI for report generation

I have a 100+ c executables(.exe) which accepts arguments and will generate report.These executables lies in a linux server. Through my web application, based on the functionality i need to invoke these .exe and have to generate the report.
I am using JSF/servlet to generate the query string(i.e. exe name with its relevant parameters).
I have two option to do the same.
1. Through socket programming send the request from client(JSP) to linux server that accepts the input and it process the request and send the report back.
2. Send the request from client web browser(JSP) running in JBOSS to the apache web server via CGI and it execute the exe and generate the report.
could you let me know which is the efficient way of generating the report. If there is any other option let me know.

It's more that there is no disadvantage in your case. The usual objection to CGI (and indeed one reason why we have servlet containers at all) is that you have to start a new process per request, but you have that problem anyway because of your hundreds of C programs.

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I have a Scenario's like
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There are couple of "dimensions" to consider in your PI interface design. For exemple when you are running the sizing exercise (Since we are considering adding a net new interface), you will need to capture specific information about new interface.i.e. S/A, adapters, frequency, avg payload size. etc..Note that the last two attributes will be hard to size properly in this case since you can't predict how frequent the end user will run the report which will impact the latency time required to pull the data. Latency will affect the user experience as visible side affect and definitely the SLA for other interfaces running at the same time.
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Using remote machines for report generation

Since LabView does not have cross-platform openoffice support, I was looking at ways of generating reports from a LabView session (2010) running on a mac. The report generation VI contains a somewhat suggestive machine name input. Can one connect to a remote machine (which is windows XP and has microsoft word / excel installed) to generate reports from a mac running LabView ?

m-s wrote:
Since LabView does not have cross-platform openoffice support, I was looking at ways of generating reports from a LabView session (2010) running on a mac. The report generation VI contains a somewhat suggestive machine name input. Can one connect to a remote machine (which is windows XP and has microsoft word / excel installed) to generate reports from a mac running LabView ?
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phani srikanth
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Bill_Shepherd wrote:
Hi
I have a copy of LV full development suite with the Excel and Word report generation toolkit added.
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Best way to modify Sequential Process Model for report generation.

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Using USB 6341 device for frequency generation but level is droped when conect

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