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So who is listening

Last week I left a message on the Javalobby board that was debating the Rick Ross presentation, in that message I welcomed Ricks message about Java and .NET developers working togther and extended the hand of friendship to those folks that welcomed a chance of sharing ideas and concepts. Sadly the message has been all but ignored with the board hotly debating the Java/MS relationship, the very thing Rick was asking the community to see past. So again I extend the hand of friendship, lets share ideas and concepts.

Posted: Apr 01 2005, 11:17 PM by astopford | with 1 comment(s)

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Brennan Stehling said:

I have done mostly .NET development this past year after doing Java for years. I would really like to see some smooth integrations between these two runtimes.

I have found some very "low tech" methods of providing that integration. Many people are focusing on placing the logic into Web Services with WS-I but in real world use I am finding people are using proven technologies, such as a database. You can place data into a table which Java, .NET, Perl, Python or Ruby can access and simply use the database as your communications medium. You could use Web Service communications to signal remote services to trigger events to check the database to make it highly responsive, but you can also use a simple socket and send a specific byte value over the wire to indicate a status which the remote system can handle.

That sort of integration you can get today without WS-I or XML involved at all.

The project I am on now has a mix of classic ASP/VB and Delphi developers along with new ASP.NET 2.0 software in the mix. We are finding stored procedures are an excellent mechanism for these 3 technologies to work well together.
# April 5, 2005 1:45 PM