Question

I Am developing a private web site in PHP-html / Ajax and a client program in Java.

I have just seen that apple can, by Firefox or other, open iTunes to load content.

I want to do the same or better:

I try to make a program which can “talk” to javascript or just write a lockFile (tempfile) and so get data through this one, i try to get at least a communication Web browser – > java, but i’d rather if possible a bi-directional communication.

So if somebody have any solution, it’s will be great cause I googlised it, i tried local Storage in html5, File access in javascript … nothing really works and I don’t want the program to ask the server Avery time.

Answer 1

You can do this in a number of ways but you must have in mind the cross-domain restrictions. I’ve been doing this with sockets.

1 – You need a bridge to comunicate your web with your server this could be done with a java applet or a flash socket bridge so that you can call your server and your javascript client code.

2 – You need url-redirect rule in your server so that when your client makes a request it always makes it in the same domain but gets where your socket server finally is. You client can’t go to a different domain but your server can. This is needed to skip the cross-domain restriction.

I hope this helps.