Help on Server Socket Programming?
hello Friends,
I need your help on following:
I am the only person working on this project and the company wants me to prepare a infrastructure of this project and I should also give a demo of this project to my seniors. I will breif you up with my project:
1. There is this gif image of distillation column. i will be publishing it using JApplet or Applet.
2. This Image must be seen on internet.
3. On the circle of these Image the user will click(In all there are five circles, called as controllers)and a dialog box should open thru which user will input the float values(I am using the JOptionPane class to open this dialog box).
4. The inputed values will the be given to the C program which is the simulator for distillation column.
5. The C program will generate the output through iterations(Code entirely in C), the output of each program will then be poped up to over the image beside the respective controlled or under the respective controller but definetely over the same gif file.
6. The number of iteration will depend on how fast the C program converges the inputer parameters. And each output must be show over the gif image and when the final iteration value will appear it should remain on the image until some new value is inputted by the user again by clicking on any of the circle.
The proposed theory to do this project accoding to me is as follows:
1. Since each value must be thrown to the user. I beleive this is a real time project. So I decided to use Client Server Networking technology provided by java.
2. Then I figured out that in this project there should be 2 clients One is the GUI which is the Image screen to receive the input from the user and to show the output to the user. Second client is a java program sitting behind the server which will receive this input data from user and it will have an NATIVE method through which all this input will be given to the C simulator program.
3. The middle bridge between these two clients will be a server. Which will just pass the data to and fro from both the clients.
3. The C program will perform iterations using these input values from second client. This C program will then give each iterations output to the Java program using JNI technology. This second client then sends this output value to the GUI clients through server.
Well another very important thing, I am inexperience in the field of software so I had to do a lot of R&D and this is what I found out. Frankly I am really not sure whether this is the right path to approach to this project or there is some other correct and realistic way than this? Well friends i would certainly request you if you can suggest some other simple or rather correct path or else if this is the right path then would you please suggest me the possible hiches or perticular points where I should concentrate more.
Well i am eagerly waiting for your reply.
