[Mono-devel-list] Alternatives to SOAP for tightly integrating C# and Java?

[Jonathan Pryor]

CORBA may be an option.  Remoting.Corba is an open-source implementation
of CORBA for use with the .NET Remoting infrastructure.  It's probably a
better answer than SOAP for Java/C# integration.

For more information about Remoting.Corba, visit

   http://remoting-corba.sourceforge.net/

 - Jon

On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 18:47, George Hawkins wrote:
> Hi there --
> 
> I was wondering if any of you had any thoughts on options for
> integrating C# and Java systems?
> 
> At the moment the only ready to go solution seems to be SOAP but somehow
> SOAP seems a poor match when really what you want is a very tight
> coupling between code written in Java and code written in C#.
> 
> When I looked at this problem first I thought about:
> 
> 1. CORBA.
> 2. A Java implementation of .NET remoting.
> 3. A C# implementation of Java RMI.
> 
> It was only after trying to look for solutions based around there ideas
> that I fell back on SOAP.
> 
> While I found a few products such as JnBridge, iHub and Ja.NET that
> attack the problem by providing a mechanism for Java to work with .NET
> remoting I couldn't find anything in the open-source domain.
> 
> I had even less luck with CORBA - I naively assumed Microsoft would be
> providing CORBA bindings for their .NET languages like C# but this
> doesn't seem to be the case.
> 
> Similarly I didn't come across anybody trying to get RMI to work with
> C#, either commercial or open-source based.
> 
> Have I missed anything - or is this a good summary of the state of
> things at the moment?
> 
> I did like the look of Intrinsyc's implementation of .NET remoting for
> Java and it is reasonably priced (at least when used with J2SE - it's
> much more expensive to use with J2EE) but while I'm not a strict
> open-source ideologue I do much prefer to go for solutions where I can
> look at the source.
> 
> While quite recent, I wonder if Lluis Sanchez's super work on .NET
> remoting will provide a basis from which to build an open-source
> implementation of .NET remoting for Java? Have people already been
> looking at this?
> 
> SOAP, CORBA, remoting and RMI - are there other options to examine?
> 
> Any thoughts or suggestions would be much appreciated.
> 
> Best wishes - yours,
> 
> 
> George.
> 
> PS sorry if you feel this is inappropriate to the development group, I
> posted here as I didn't get the feeling there was already an open source
> solution to what I was thinking about and as such it'd be more the
> subject of future development - something Mono developers might already
> have been thinking about or working on.
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