I have the following scenario:

I need to write an application that gets its data feeds from multiple applets running in different instances the plug-in. The application needs to interact with the applets by clicking buttons.

The applets are third party, therefore i cannot alter their behaviour in anyway.

Is there a clean way to interogate the gui components bound to an applet (rather than trying to screen scrape them) running in a different jvm from the controlling application, and to fire events to simulate button presses in those jvms?

Is this even possible?