Best way to use Octave in external application

[Carlo de Falco]

On 08/apr/08, at 18:05, Francesco Cat wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am planning to create a standalone C++ or Java application. I would
> like to use Octave for various tasks, such as calculus and linear
> system analysis.
> What is the best choice do do this? I have tried using sockets but I
> got nothing working (poor documentation and no examples at all).

If your application will be distributed under the terms of a GPL  
compatible license you can link to the liboctave library or even  
embed Octave in your program alltogether.
If your application is not going to be free software sockets  
communication is actually the best I can think of.
c.