My private development project ...
... is a Adobe Air project.
AIR is great for for nice looking frontends and easy mashups of a wide variety of services like the Google or Yahoo APIs.
The AIR API provide support for custom chrome, database, intelligent update system, and a lot of other interesting API-Functions but lacks support for launching external programs.
I'm very happy that i've found a solution for that problem.
The solution consists of two parts, the sender and the receiver part.
The Sender: I've written a javascript class which makes heavy use of a great part form the AIR API and allows the exchange of data with other programs on the same computer.
The Receiver: Multiple solutions are possible. For now there's a custom Dynamic Link Library (Dll) and a java class for all the java based stuff.
Using this special way it's possible to launch another program together with a bunch of parameters.
If you would like to know more about the project feel free to contact me via email.
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