Inter-process communication between languages/operating systems

Question

I am looking for an inter-process communication facility that can be used between languages and/or environments running on the same or different systems. For instance it should allow signals to be sent between Java, C# and/or C++ components, and it should also support some kind of queueing mechanism. The only facility that is obviously environment and language-independent is files, but I assume this would be much too slow - and disciplined queueing may be difficult to implement. Many of the other facilities described in the literature only apply to one language or one operating system. Suggestions would be appreciated!

Answer 1

You need to probably look at something like ActiveMQ. In EAI patterns, the JMS bus is heavily used for the purpose of integrating several modules written in several diffetent languages and running on several systems. To me, Such Enterprise Message Bus like ActiveMQ fits your need. Let me know if you are looking for something else.

-Shamik

Answer 2

I would use XML-RPC personally. It is easy to use on multiple platforms, and cleanly meets all your requirements, any queuing can be handled programmaticaly.

Answer 3

Well, you could definitely look at using "sockets".

Answer 4

Check out Microsoft Message Queue or something simillar. Also have a look at XML-RPC, SOAP, JSON etc.