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8 <h1>Remote operation</h1>
10 <p>This feature can be toggled and
11 configured under <b>Preferences -> Advanced</b>.</p>
13 <p><i>Note that activating this feature under Windows XP SP2
14 (and possibly other configurations) may prompt a message box
15 stating that certain features of the program have been blocked
16 by the Windows firewall. You can safely tell the firewall to
17 keep blocking - the firewall will not interfere with remote
18 operation of JabRef.</i></p>
20 <p>If listening for remote operation is enabled, JabRef will at
21 startup attempt to start listening to a specific port. This
22 means that other applications can send information to JabRef
23 through this port. JabRef will only accept local connections,
24 to avoid the risk of interference from outside.</p>
26 <p>Binding to this port makes it possible for a second JabRef
27 instance to discover that the first one is running. In this
28 case, unless specifically instructed to run in stand-alone
29 mode, the second JabRef instance will pass its command line
30 options through the port to the first JabRef instance, and then
33 <p>The first JabRef instance will read the command line
34 options, and perform the indicated actions, such as reading or
35 importing a file, or importing a file to the currently shown
36 database. If a file is imported using the command-line option
37 <code>--importToOpen</code>, the imported entries will be added
38 to the currently shown database. If no database is open, a new
39 one will be created.</p>