How to open a Windows named pipe from Java?
Use Named Pipes to Communicate Between Java and .Net Processes
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try { // Connect to the pipe RandomAccessFile pipe = new RandomAccessFile("\\\\.\\pipe\\testpipe", "rw"); String echoText = "Hello word\n"; // write to pipe pipe.write ( echoText.getBytes() ); // read response String echoResponse = pipe.readLine(); System.out.println("Response: " + echoResponse ); pipe.close();} catch (Exception e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace();}
In windows, named pipes exist but they cannot be created as files in a writeable filesystem and there is no command line tool. They live in a special filesystem and can be created only by using the Win32 API.
Looks like you'll have to resort to native code, or switch from pipes to sockets for IPC - probably the best longterm solution, since it's much more portable.
You can create named pipe using JNA library https://github.com/java-native-access/jna
It is clearly shown in the following test: https://github.com/java-native-access/jna/blob/master/contrib/platform/test/com/sun/jna/platform/win32/Kernel32NamedPipeTest.java
API of JNA wrapper is the same as Win32 hence you will be able to use all the features and power of named pipes on Windows.