Re: Communication between Ada and Java through named pipes

[Adrien Plisson <aplisson-news@stochastique.net>]

Michael Paus wrote:
> If you do not have the strict requirement to use named pipes I would 
> switch to
> sockets. That is much better documented, more general, more flexible and is
> known to work with Ada and Java on almost any platform you can think of.
> Why would you want to go through the pain getting ancient named pipes to 
> work?

simply because of efficiency ? tcp/ip protocols have some overhead we 
can't always afford if we need high throughput.

i never used named pipes, but i used shared memory once to communicate 
straight between VB and C++. ultra platform specific, but extremely 
efficient...

-- 
rien