title: How to open a Windows named pipe from Java?
body: <p>On our Linux system we use named pipes for interprocess communication (a producer and a consumer).</p>
  
  <p>In order to test the consumer (Java) code, I would like to implement (in Java) a dummy producer which writes to a named pipe which is connected to the consumer.</p>
  
  <p>Now the test should also work in the Windows development environment. Thus I would like to know how to create a named pipe in Windows from Java. In Linux I can use mkfifo (called using <code>Runtime.exec()</code> ), but how should I do this on Windows?</p>