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Asked: 2026-05-26T10:17:17+00:00

I work on a standalone Java application that is a command-and-control system for an

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I work on a standalone Java application that is a command-and-control system for an assortment of hardware. The C&C software basically runs from a command line, and controls the system hardware which is spread out all over the place. It does not require a GUI to meet the business requirements. I have written a small swing GUI just so I can see what the overall status is of the system, but again, that is not essential.

Going forward, we would like to have a Administrative web GUI with system status and something that would give a user some level of control over the hardware. We were thinking that GWT might be a viable solution. Our GWT app would have to have some sort of IPC with the C&C software. I don’t know how viable that is, I don’t know that we want the C&C software bundled as a web app that has to run under application server.

I just don’t have much experience with this. I was thinking that the GWT client would interact through RPC with the GWT server, and the GWT server would have some sort of RPC (RMI???) with the C&C.

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    I found a solution by using Spring. We have modified much of our Command and Control app to use Spring IoC, and then we used other Spring libraries to extend its functionality. To interact with GWT, we exposed services and used httpInvokers to make calls from the GWT server code.

    Of course, this meant we needed to use Spring with our GWT application too in order to make the http calls from the GWT server code. But all is working.

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