krissrex / dummy-process-communication

A java program to demonstrate interprocess communication over stdio, ports and sockets.

Prototype: Dummy process communication

This prototype was developed as part of a thesis: https://github.com/krissrex/ntnu-tdt4501-preproject-article.

Note: It is named ecore-tool-process because it was aimed to be an arbitrary java program which used existing tooling for Ecore (such as EMF Compare etc). It has no actual dependence or reference to Ecore otherwise.

This is used in a master thesis research.
The goal of this program is to be started as a subprocess, and then communicated with over stdio or ports.

See krissrex/vscode-extension-backend-talker for its usage (in /lib/ecore-tool-process.jar).

Usage

Start the jar file java -jar ecore-tool-process.jar stdio and send text to it over stdio.

java -jar ecore-tool-process.jar <MODE> [<option> <value>...]

Arguments

Argument	Descripiton	Status
stdio	Use stdin and stdout to communicate.	✅
port	Talk over TCP port.	✅ (Only 1 client; no multithreading)
socket	Talk over unix sockets.	❌

Port

Extra arguments for port mode

Argument	Description
-p PORT	Specify what port to use. Default: 0 (randomly assign a port and print it to stdout).