[JesseK]

We code in Java on the robot, and Java on the driver's station.

We've had a LOT of problems using custom network code in the last 2 years. This year we did something way different than last year - we setup a web server on port 443 of the driver's station. We could never get it working. This weekend we let the FTA's have complete logs of our stuff in the hope that someone who understands the network architecture can figure out what was going on. The firewall was disabled in every way Windows can disable the firewall.

In the end, we swapped to NetworkTables. Sure, it requires a Labview runtime library just to develop with, we can't figure out how to get it above 4hz, and it means that without layers of interpreters we'll only ever develop displays in Java - but it works. We run a separate process from the driver's station, so it isn't Smart Dashboard stuff - just read and write to a HashMap by using the NetworkTables framework in your own code.