Re: [Openjnlp-devel] Arg...

[Kevin H. <ke...@na...>]

On Tuesday, March 26, 2002, at 03:39 , Christopher Heiny wrote:
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>> This sounds like some IPC between running instances of OpenJNLP, how
>> would this work? On Mac OS it is possible to send 'odoc' events to tell
>> a running app to open a document, but how would this be implemented in
>> java on Windows and linux?
>
> I think the Jext text editor has a reasonable approach.  You do it 
> with a
> socket.  (see http://jext.sourceforge.org for Jext info; the method I'm

This is a good idea, the socket thing would enable a single OpenJNLP in 
GUI mode to be the arbiter for launching, which really makes sense now 
with the console.