The services com.sun.star.io.Acceptor and com.sun.star.io.Connector allow to establish a bytestream connection between two processes. After establishing the connection, there is no difference between client and server anymore. Connections may be used e.g. by a remote bridge. Both services support socket and pipe connections.
Pipes work only on the same computer as they use shared memory for data transfer.
The connector component may be reused to initiate connections to multiple processes. The acceptor component may only be used to listen on one resource. Subsequent calls to the accept method must pass the same connectiondescription string. Copyright 2000 OpenOffice.org Foundation. We welcome your feedback .