How to use the raw socket commnication

[Raj Saini]

Dear All,

I am working on a project where by I have decided to use the Mozilla technologies for front end GUI. The Client side GUI application is a lightweight client based on XUL and Gecko engine.

The business layer of the application is developed in Java using the jakarta-avalon architecture. Since, this application uses the async message processing, I have decided that the communication between client and server will be based on the raw sockets.

How can I use the sockets from javascripts for communicating with my server application. I had a look on the nsISocketTransport, nsISocketProvider and nsISocketTransportService interfaces. Can some one point me to some documentation or sample code which I can refer.

How I do it in java is:-

Create a socket on a designated host and port
open the input and output streams.
Read and write the data on input and output streams respectively.

Thankyou in advance.

Raj Saini