I have a couple questions related to this project a school team and I have:
For our last
Java project, we ran a Java program on my laptop as a server. Webpages and
applets were served by IIS running on my machine, and the applets connected to the port the Java program was running on. The Java server had a GUI interface and we ran it through JBuilder (alternatively, the command prompt).
Now, for our next project, we'd like to build the Java server to run on a remote web server. The program's purpose will be to coordinate between multiple users connecting via applets. Obviously, we can't go about it the same way as before--it can't be a GUI program and we don't know how to go about running it. Questions:
1. Is this where
servlets come in? How does one go about running a servlet on a remote host?
2. I read here
https://coderanch.com/t/204317/sockets/java/Baby about running a Java program via a CGI script. How does that work in?
Basically, I'm interested in learning about the standard way this type problem is solved. Thanks for any help.