Re: localhost server program.

From:

Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>

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comp.lang.java.help

Date:

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:36:13 -0400

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bH wrote:

Hi All,
My goal is to acquire a Java based server program that can be used to
perform the task of making a localhost connection on my computer. Such
a task it might do may be downloading images using URLs to applets and
applications that are running.
My computer is a Windows XP and using jdk1.6.0_07. I did find "MySQL
Connector/J" . Is this a good one that might be OK for this task or
is there something better?

No.

MySQL Connector/J is not "a Java[-]based server program", although it does
"mak[e] a localhost connection" - to a MySQL datastore from a Java program.
Where did you find Connector/J? Did it have documentation on that site?

All sorts of programs, server and client both, make "localhost connections".
Are you saying you want a program to make a remote server seem like localhost,
so that you can download stuff from remote sites? Or are you trying to set up
a server on 'localhost' that will serve up images from localhost to a client
also on localhost?

The first use is called a "proxy", and Apache Web Server (not a Java program),
among others, can do that. The second is something like a "web server", or
"application server", and again, Apache Web Server (not a Java program) is
excellent for that. Apache also makes Tomcat (a Java program), which will
also serve HTML and images and all that, as well as dynamic (changed at
request time) content via Java servlets and Java Server Pages (JSP). Google
on the keywords from this paragraph for more details.

--
Lew

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