Starting up a plain socket-based service

Apologies if this is a FAQ...couldn't find anything, hence this post.

I am trying to write a 'decorator' for an ancient C/plain-sockets-based Unix application.

Think of the decorator as a filter/proxy that also munges incoming/outgoing data.

The question is: how to do this in spring.

I can't see any of the available remoting strategies being useful for this situation (maybe my lack of understanding): all seems to rely on serialization and be invokable via URL, wheras I have to talk to a plain address/port and have to send a plain-text command string:

Code:

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CMD:param,param,param

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and get back a plain-text response stream:

Code:

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row-count int
data,data,data
data,data,data
data,data,data
...

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Any suggestions gratefully accepted.

The underlying server will be JBoss.

Cheers,

Alph

To answer my own question...Apache Mina: http://mina.apache.org/ does the job nicely and removes the need to mess around directly with ServerSockets, etc.

It has a "chat server" example showing spring integration:

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/mina/br.../example/chat/

Cheers,

Alph