Because I don't really know the nature of the project. If people want to do everything by hand, then a listening socket in java is fine. The good thing about a server in between is that the PD patch and java program can be disconnected and reconnected at will without any fuss. Put a loadbang on the connect message for the netsend and all you have to do is launch the patch and then launch your java program. I don't know, it just makes sense to me to have something that's constantly active, in between.
Pall
On Monday 08 December 2003 16:31, [ยท] wrote:
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Pall Thayer wrote:
Here's how I would do it:
I would make a perl based server with a socket that accepts data and sends it back out. Put a netsend in your PD patch and connect to the perl server.
perl in the middle sounds a bit redundant to me. why not connect directly to a java server's listening socket?
blip, ub