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receiving events from other apps

 
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I need to write an applet that acts as a wrapper for another application. The application can be another applet, or a .exe that is downloaded to the browser- possibly writte in some language besides java- at the same time as the applet that I am writing.
My applet needs to intercept any sort of calls that the other application makes, so that I can process them and carry forth the necessary processing. I was looking at some of the methods in the ToolKit class. Has anyone used any of the addAWTEventListener or addPropertyChangeListener? What is getNativeContainer? getSystemEventQueue? Do they work for gathering events from non-java applications too?
Any examples would be appreciated, however if anyone knows of any good books or links that talk about this sort of thing, I would greatly appreciate that also.
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Brian
 
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Sounds like what you need is distributed objects. One being a event source and another an event listener. My bias suggestion would be to use CORBA for this.
 
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