collective knowledge,

i have just been looking into ways to make a connection between PD & Processing. I have "netserver" running on a linux-server. I wanted to use that server as a sort of "hub" for clients to connect to with either processing OR pd to send and receive data to each other.

the list seems a little scattered on this (as far as my searches go) and i want to get some suggestions / ideas before i proceed with a time-consuming process.

I saw this message from Edward George: http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2003-04/011403.html

...and another message by Hans-Christoph Steiner that i cant seem to locate right now - something about connection java to netserver as i recall.

its seems that i could use "osc" to send messages back and forth on the server-side but that seems a little to excessive to me.

i was taking a look at "oscp5" here for this: http://www.sojamo.de/iv/index.php?n=11

...but if a 'java' app can connect to 'netserver' for bi-directional communications (thats the impression i have been getting) than cant processing make a connection to 'netserver' seeing that they are similar/same language?

i dont really know to much about 'osc'.

maybe there is a resource im missing or someone has already started a project like this...

basically:

pd/processing <--> 'netserver' <--> processing/pd

very similar to 'netpd' (actually im using the netpd_server.pd patch right now... thanks guys!) except add 'processing'...

hope im clear!

cheers mark

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