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Experience in integrating Java with C# and .NET
Author(s) -
Bishop Judith,
Horspool R. Nigel,
Worrall Basil
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
concurrency and computation: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.309
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1532-0634
pISSN - 1532-0626
DOI - 10.1002/cpe.858
Subject(s) - java applet , computer science , java , java api for xml based rpc , real time java , java annotation , java card , interfacing , generics in java , world wide web , strictfp , operating system , computer hardware
Java programmers cannot help but be aware of the advent of C#, the .NET network environment, and a host of new supporting technologies, such as Web services. Before taking the big step of moving all development to a new environment, programmers will want to know what are the advantages of C# as a language over Java, and whether the new and interesting features of C# and .NET can be incorporated into existing Java software. This paper surveys the advantages of C# and then presents and evaluates experience with connecting it to Java in a variety of ways. The first way provides evidence that Java can be linked to C# at the native code level, albeit through C++ wrappers. The second is a means for retaining the useful applet feature of Java in the server‐side architecture of Web services written in C#. The third is by providing a common XML‐based class for the development of graphical user interfaces (GUIs), which can be incorporated into Java or C#. An added advantage of this system, called Views, is that it can run independently of the resource‐intensive development environment that would otherwise be needed for using C#. A major advantage of the methods described in this paper is that in all cases the Java program is not affected by the fact that it is interfacing with C#. The paper concludes that there are many common shared technologies that bring Java and C# close together, and that innovative ways of using others can open up opportunities not hitherto imagined. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.