Brian Noyes wrote:
>
> Anyone got a recommendation for the best approach to invoke a method on
> another running Java program from inside a servlet that receives SOAP
> messages on Apache?
>
> The scenario is that we have Tomcat running, and invoke a soap method in our
> servlet. In response to that method call, we want to call a method on
> another Java program that is running on the server (implementing an event
> channel back to the client).
>
> What is the best way to call out from a servlet into another running Java
> program on the same machine? RMI?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
RMI can be very simple and fast, I would certainly recommend it.
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