Java and .NET Interoperability: JNBridge

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Port 25 interview on Java and .NET Interoperability: JNBridge

JNBridge — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 02:11:21 GMT

Watch a Port 25 interview where Sam Ramji, Director of the Microsoft Open Source Software Lab talks to

re: Java and .NET Interoperability: JNBridge

Wayne Citrin — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 23:21:33 GMT

Hi, thanks for the comment, and thanks to Sam for giving me the opportunity to take part in the conversation.

JNBridgePro isn't open source (although it can certainly be used to connect open-source projects), but there are a few open source solutions out there.

There's IKVM.NET (www.ikvm.net), which is a really cool project. It's a very different technology from JNBridgePro, since it's a translator from Java bytecodes to .NET's MSIL. I believe IKVM is part of the Mono distribution. There are both advantages and disadvantages to such an approach, which I'd be happy to discuss if people are interested.

There's also a project called Caffeine (http://caffeine.berlios.de), which does some things similarly to JNBridgePro -- it's a bridging solution that hosts the JVM inside the CLR. From what I can gather, it only supports calls from .NET to Java (plus callbacks), plus, of course, the Java can only be run in-process inside the CLR (a common, but not universal, situation). It appears to be a work in progress.

-- Wayne

re: Java and .NET Interoperability: JNBridge

daddyam — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:37:13 GMT

Is it open source?

Does anyone know what the alternatives that he mentions are?