[Mono-list] Java / Mono Interop

[Rodrigo B. de Oliveira]

On 8/24/05, Ralph Mason <rm.monolist at telogis.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am wanting to make a .net assembly callable from Java.
> 
> My Ideal world would be a tool that takes the .net assembly and uses
> reflection to generate Java proxies and JNI code to call mono.  Some
> attributes added in the c# code would direct the tool on what to expose etc.
> 


I was considering the same problem some weeks ago.

I'm assuming you already know about ikvm and decided it won't work for
your case because you cannot dictate the virtual machine the java side
of the application will run on. If you don't know about ikvm, pls
visit http://ikvm.net and make up your mind first.

The sad part is that I could not find anything readily useable.
Grasshopper seemed to go in that direction but failed to install
because I didn't have IIS on my machine (: really scary.

I'm currently using sockets to send information from the java side to
the mono side and back. I'm considering to switch to something more
structured like xmlrpc or something.

> Does anyone know of such a tool?  If there isn't one, can anyone comment
> on the difficulty of making one (I know very little about Java).
> 

As someone that have written a JNI->COM layer before I can say that
it's not really difficult but still a lot of work and love to get it
running and compiling in all supported platforms.

I would certainly consider contributing to such a project...
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