Question

I have a console application which screen scrapes some data, and now I need to do image comparisons. If the images are different, I want to show the images to the user. What’s the best way to display two images during the execution of a console application? I’m assuming I would use some sort of inter-process communication to send information back and forth, but I’m not sure how exactly I would go about doing that in a good fashion.

Also, I’d rather NOT store the images to files if possible. There’s no reason to persist the data, and if the console application terminates unexpectedly, it’s better if I don’t have any dirt left on the file system.

Does anyone have any thoughts on how best to accomplish this?

Answer 1

I am not sure I understand the concern. You should be perfectly able to conditionally pop up either a Swing JFrame or AWT Frame from your console application, am I wrong?