Socketservice

  The socketservice program allows you to take any program that accepts input 
  and produces output and turn it into a service that is accessible through 
  tcp/ip.

Building

  You can use ant to build an executable jar file from the source files.
  More information about ant can be found here: http://ant.apache.org/
  
Running

  You can run the socket service using a command line like this:

    java -jar socketservice.jar port command
    
  Where 'port' is the local tcp/ip port number where the service listens, and 
  'command' is the command that will be run for each incoming connection.
  
Example

  The following command will start a service on port that echoes everything that
  is sent to it (only works on unix, of course).
  
    java -jar socketservice.jar 7777 cat
    
  You can test this by using telnet to connect to the service:
  
    telnet localhost 7777
    
  And see that anything that you type in, is echoed.
  
Copyright information

  Copyright (C) 2005 Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
  as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
  of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
  
  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  GNU General Public License for more details.