Spring and Legacy Client

[spring04]

We are working on redesigning a legacy system using Spring/Hibernate. Currently there are applications which use a Java based Client side API to talk to the server side component using TCP/IP. In order to keep the backward compatibility, we would like to still support this TCP/IP communication from our new architecture. How do i handle TCP/IP connections from Spring enabled applications? What are the alternatives?

Any input on this is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[spring04]

Could someone please answer my question?

Thanks in advance!

[jbetancourt]

Can you make the question more specific? TCP/IP is perhaps at the wrong abstraction level.

[spring04]

I would like to develop a server component which can accept requests via TCP/IP connection and provide service to legacy Java clients.

Hope this helps.

Thanks!

[rrsIPOV]

I've never done this; but surely you can update the TCP/IP listener layer to be configured via Spring bean wiring? If it is already setup to run inside a servlet/J2EE container then you should be good to go; otherwise you may have to do some fancy coding to get it to work - of course you could always just make the servlet layer pass on the requests it gets to the TCP/IP listener.

[spring04]

Thanks rrsIPOV. But our's is NOT a web-based application and hence NO servlets. The current implementation is PURE JAVA code.

Thanks!