djacob

Hi, hope this question isn't covered elsewhere, but I searched and didn't turn anything up...

I'm using jitter for gesture recognition, and I need to feed the results (a list of ints) to a separate standalone java program.

The only thing which I've thought of so far is to use an mxj object in max to send out the info via tcp/ip to the other program. This seems a bit much though, to send via tcp/ip within the same machine, if it's even possible.

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it's certainly possible, and probably the easiest way. using local 

sockets doesn't take much in the way of resources, and provides an 

alternate synchronization/serialization paradigm for you so you can 

avoid a lot of the messiness with concurrent programming. plus it's 

easily cross-platform compatible, and distributable if you ever want 

to run the two modules on separate machines.

my only suggestion would be to consider udp instead of tcp, since you 

don't need a lot of the junk tcp provides when you're not actually 

going out over a potentially lossy network.

it's certainly possible, and probably the easiest way. using local  
sockets doesn't take much in the way of resources, and provides an  
alternate synchronization/serialization paradigm for you so you can  
avoid a lot of the messiness with concurrent programming. plus it's  
easily cross-platform compatible, and distributable if you ever want  
to run the two modules on separate machines.

my only suggestion would be to consider udp instead of tcp, since you  
don't need a lot of the junk tcp provides when you're not actually  
going out over a potentially lossy network.

Yeah David, Richie is right - I think using UDP packets to communicate

Yeah David, Richie is right - I think using UDP packets to communicate
between processes is pretty standard.

Thanks for the feedback. I had some code from another project using tcp/ip which I thought I would just modify, but I'll look into UDP also as you advise.

Thanks for the feedback. I had some code from another project using tcp/ip which I thought I would just modify, but I'll look into UDP also as you advise.
Thanks,
David.


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