Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:59:19 -0500 From: Dan Jacobs Subject: WebTech Tues 12/16 Waltham - Integrating Java and .NET Environments Hi everyone, This month's WebTech meeting will be on Tuesday, December 16th, from 7 to 9 pm, at the IBM SPC in Waltham. Details and directions are on the web site at http://www.acm.org/chapters/webtech. The presentattion this month will be by Alex Krapf, president of Codemesh, Inc. (and a member of WebTech), on Integrating the Java and .NET Environments. This has become an increasingly important topic, and Alex will be describing great solutions to the problems. All are invited to dinner before the meeting and, as always, Alex will want to go out for a beer afterwards. The excuse of not having known ahead of time won't count this time! I hope to see you there! Dan Jacobs Chairman, Boston ACM WebTech Group President, ModelObjects Group - http://www.modelobjects.com President, JPlates, Inc. - http://www.jplates.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Abstract: Alex is going to talk about the challenges of integrating the Java and .NET environments. Why would anyone want to do this? Because there is a wealth of great Java solutions out there (EJB, JMS, Jini, JavaSpaces, proprietary code) that could be very useful for a C# or VB programmer if they were easily accessible. A quick overview of motivators for integration will be followed by a more detailed look at the requirements and the architecture of an integrated solution and the technical obstacles that need to be overcome. As a demonstration, Alex will build a mixed language application using the JuggerNET tool. He'll also leave plenty of time for questions. About the speaker: Alex Krapf is the President of Codemesh, Inc., a local firm that he co-founded in 1999. Codemesh produces "Solutions for Language Integration" and specializes in making Java code available from other programming languages. Codemesh's two main products are JunC++ion and JuggerNET, the former integrating Java with C++ in a platform-portable way, the latter integrating Java with .NET.