Concurrent read/write of named pipe in Java (on windows)

Question

I\'m trying to provide communication between a C# app and a Java app on windows using named pipes with the method described by v01ver in this question: How to open a Windows

Answer 1

I'm not familiar with JAVA, and my C# is pretty elementary too. However I'm had a similar problem with a multithreaded C++ client that I fixed by opening the pipe for overlapped IO. Until I did this, Windows serialized reads and writes, effectively causing an unsatisfied (blocking) ReadFile to prevent completion of a subsequent WriteFile until the read was done.

See CreateFile function
FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED