When I use the Java Bloomber V3 API it usually works. However, sometimes, especially after a reboot, bbcomm.exe is not running in the background. I can start it manually by running blp.exe, but I wondered if there was a way of doing this via the API?
After talking to the help desk, it turns out that on 64 bit Windows, running under a 64bit JVM bbcomm is not automatically started. This does not happen under 32bit Java - under 32 bit bbcomm automatically runs.
So my solutions are either to wait for the problem to be fixed by Bloomberg (now I understand it) or to check this specific case.
To check the specific case:
os.arch)java.vm.name)bbcomm.exe is not running. Try to run bbcomm.exe using Runtime.exec()I haven't tested the above yet. It may have exactly the same issues as Bloomberg have with 64bit VMs.