Is there a "best practice" for accessing another process in the OS via java?

Question

I read Skype4Java (java api for skype) and noticed that they use jni to access the skype client.

intuitively, I assume that java already has a standard library that has an OS-sensitive jn implementation for accessing other processes. I set it up to search, but could not find it.

Is there such a library? if not, is there a best practice for accessing another process in os, and not necessarily for the skype client?

Answer 1

I think that perhaps you need to define what “access” means. If you're talking about plain old inter-process communication, then sockets or JNI is your best bet.

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Answer 2

Java 1.4, . . Java.nio.MappedByteBuffer.

Answer 3

This is not exactly what you are looking for, but it will probably help a lot nonetheless: Java Native Access project on java.net.

Answer 4

Do not forget the sockets ...