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wiggles
wiggles

Reputation: 499

Is Java suitable for working with other external processes/applications?

I would like to write something similar to Football Manager Real Time Editor in Java, allowing the application to make changes to values inside the Football Manager game. Is this possible in Java?

I understand Java works with in a virtual machine, but does that stop it interacting with other applications in memory. If not what part of the API should I be looking at?

If it isn't possible, what language should I look to develop a language like this in, I develop on a Mac.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 168

Answers (1)

mbatchkarov
mbatchkarov

Reputation: 16049

Java has reasonable facilities for spawning external processes (look up the ProcessBuilder class). You can read and write to a process' streams fairly easily and check the return value. Sharing the memory locations of this process can be done with JNI, but it is far from trivial.

Upvotes: 1

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