Hello Erlangers,<br><br>I would like to have an Erlang application (specifically the auth_external module in Ejabberd) communicate with a Java program I am writing. Not as a node, but rather using the port driver API, since that is what Ejabberd already supports. From the information I've seen, it shouldn't be too terribly hard - just listen for data in System.in, look for a two-byte chunk that when read as a short specifies the number of additional bytes to read, and repeat. I'm just wondering if this is something that's considered normal and reasonable to do, any gotchas I should be aware of, etc.<br>
<br>The only reason I'm picking Java is the rest of my application is Java and I'd like to reuse some libraries and such.<br><br>thanks,<br>Dan<br>