Dear Monks,

I am currently writing a little application that will control the replication of an Oracle database between EMC SANs. I'm in the early stages at the moment but things are going quite well so far :)

The code is being written to be compiled with PerlSvc and run as a Windows Service (yep - all Windows environment unfortunately). In the longer term, I will want to create a front end in Perl/Tk to control what's going on, get feedback etc.

Getting applications to talk to each other is something I haven't tried before. Is it IPC that I will need to use? If so, can someone point me in the direction of any kind of Idiot's Guide? Most of the stuff I have come across so far seems to be UNIX-based.

If IPC isn't likely to be the way forward for me, other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks ...... Pete

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