Inter-process communication between languages/operating systems

Question

I am looking for an inter-process communication facility that can be used between languages and/or environments running on the same or different systems. For instance it should allow signals to be sent between Java, C# and/or C++ components, and it should also support some kind of queueing mechanism. The only facility that is obviously environment and language-independent is files, but I assume this would be much too slow - and disciplined queueing may be difficult to implement. Many of the other facilities described in the literature only apply to one language or one operating system. Suggestions would be appreciated!

Answer 1

You need to probably look at something like ActiveMQ. In EAI patterns, the JMS bus is heavily used for the purpose of integrating several modules written in several diffetent languages and running on several systems. To me, Such Enterprise Message Bus like ActiveMQ fits your need. Let me know if you are looking for something else.

-Shamik