Calling Java classes from dotNet

[Tim Cao]

Hi all,

I currently have a Java application with quite a clear modular design: a Swing user interface and a backend engine which does all the bussiness logic and jdbc stuff. Now I want to rewrite the interface in dotNet languages (preferably C#). The guys at http://www.jnbridge.com/ have a solution for doing just that. However, it costs a cool $800. Any idea how I should tackle this problem will be much appreciated.

Cheers,

Tim

[Henry Wong]

It sounds like you already have a separation of your presentation layer from the business layer.

What kind of communication does it use? If it is just basic sockets, you can just use sockets to communicate between the C# front end and the Java back end.

Henry

[Tim Cao]

Henry,

At the moment, the communication is just plain Java method calling and data are passed as arguments. Socket calling is one way to do it but it will requires some modification in the backend engine. I wonder if there is a free/low cost equivalence to the JBrigde software that allows direct calling from a C# application.

Thanks,
Tim