JNBridge

Channel 9 Interview: .NET and Java Interop with JNBridge

JNBridge — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:46:00 GMT

Kirk Evans interviews Wayne Citrin, CTO of JNBridge, looking at the JNBridge JMS Adapters for .NET and BizTalk. Check it out on Channel 9.

JNBridge Releases Two New JMS Adapters for .NET Framework and BizTalk Server

JNBridge — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:32:00 GMT

New adapters allow developers to quickly and easily integrate a JMS infrastructure with any .NET Framework application or BizTalk Server

BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 30, 2007—JNBridge, LLC today announced the release of two new first-to-market JMS adapters: The JNBridge JMS Adapter for .NET and the JNBridge JMS Adapter for BizTalk Server. The new adapters provide a streamlined and automated method to connect JMS (Java Messaging Service) capabilities to Microsoft .NET Framework applications and BizTalk Server to accelerate the delivery of new software products and services to the enterprise.

“As customers use the .NET Framework and BizTalk Server as a foundation for their enterprise information systems, interoperability is a key requirement,” explained Dino Chiesa, Director of Marketing for the .NET Platform at Microsoft. “These new JMS adapters from JNBridge allow customers that already have Java-based messaging systems to connect to those systems from .NET and BizTalk programs. Interoperability between .NET or BizTalk applications and JMS systems just got a whole lot easier.”

The JNBridge JMS Adapter for .NET integrates any vendor’s JMS implementation directly with a .NET Framework application. This adapter is the first commercially-available JMS adapter that relies on Microsoft’s new WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) Line-of-Business adapter technology, allowing it to work with any custom .NET Framework application or any Microsoft program that can consume a WCF endpoint.

The JNBridge JMS Adapter for BizTalk Server provides enterprises with a fast and easy way to connect JMS capabilities with Microsoft’s BizTalk Server 2006 or its newly released BizTalk Server 2006 R2.

Both the JNBridge JMS Adapter for .NET and the JMS Adapter for BizTalk Server use a simple interface that hides the complexities of building a JMS client. The JMS adapters require no changes to existing JMS enterprise servers and are compatible with any vendor’s JMS server. Both adapters utilize the technologies in JNBridgePro, JNBridge’s flagship Java and .NET interoperability product. The BizTalk adapter supports .NET Framework 2.0 and above, the .NET adapter supports .NET 3.0, and in the future JNBridge plans to support .NET 3.5.

“For years, our JNBridgePro customers have asked for an easy way to allow .NET Framework or BizTalk Server applications to send and receive messages from JMS servers,” explained Wayne Citrin, CTO at JNBridge. “Now, with our new JMS adapters for the .NET Framework and BizTalk Server, they have a streamlined and automatic way to ensure complete and immediate interoperability. Users don’t need to have detailed knowledge of both JMS programming and adapter construction to use the JMS Adapter for .NET or the JMS Adapter for BizTalk Server. We have fully automated the process for them in one single step.”

Both adapters are available immediately and full-featured evaluation copies can be downloaded by visiting www.jnbridge.com

About JNBridge

JNBridge connects Java and .NET based components and applications together with interoperability tools that are fast, simple to use and remove the complexities of cross-platform interoperability. JNBridge is a privately-held company based in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 2001, JNBridge has grown to hundreds of customers and tens of thousands of users worldwide. Organizations using JNBridge products range from Global 500 enterprises to ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) and consulting shops, solving Java and .NET interoperability issues in a tremendous variety of applications. Please visit www.jnbridge.com for more information.

What's So Important About .NET/Java Interoperability?

JNBridge — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 06:09:00 GMT

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What's So Important About .NET/Java Interoperability?

JNBridgePro Connects Societe Generale's Excel Trading Application Clients to WebLogic Server

JNBridge — Wed, 02 May 2007 01:43:00 GMT

The new Java-based Equity Derivatives post-trade information system needed to interoperate with Excel clients in a highly performant manner while keeping the communications layers separate from the business logic. Societe Generale used JNBridgePro to bridge between COM and the Java API.

JNBridgePro Connects .NET and Java Apps

JNBridge — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:20:00 GMT

JNBridgePro lets a .NET application access existing Java classes over system, network or Web connections.

Read the article in Redmond Developer News

Connect BizTalk Server to any Java API with JNBridgePro

JNBridge — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 18:39:00 GMT

Do you need to integrate BizTalk Server with existing Java applications in your enterprise? JNBridgePro enables you to connect BizTalk Server to a standard J2EE interface such as JMS (Java Messaging Service), integrate BizTalk with J2EE facilities such as JNDI (Java Naming and Directory Interface) and EJBs (Enterprise Java Beans), or call a custom or thirdparty Java application directly from a BizTalk Server orchestration. You don’t even need the original source code: JNBridgePro works with all your Java binaries.

Adapters

Using JNBridgePro, you can easily create an adapter that connects a BizTalk orchestration with a J2EE or Java-based external data source such as JMS, or even links to a unique custom Java application.

JNBridge provides full instructions and sample code that enable you to construct your own adapter using Microsoft’s BizTalk Server adapter framework. You can use this adapter anywhere a standard BizTalk Server adapter can be used. The JNBridgePro adapter provides additional functionality to BizTalk that is available nowhere else.

Java Calls in Expressions

JNBridgePro enables you to keep your investment in your third-party or custombuilt Java libraries and use them alongside BizTalk Server. JNBridgePro provides the ability to call Java directly from your orchestrations, from expressions, or wherever you can make an ordinary .NET call.

You can access EJBs (Enterprise Java Beans), or any Java object, method, or field, just as if the code you’re accessing had been written in a .NET language.

Advantages over Web Services

While BizTalk Server supports interoperability through Web services, Web services are not appropriate in all architectures. These are instances where a JNBridgePro adapter is the right choice:

Faster performance.
The JNBridgePro interoperability solution is 10 to 25 times faster than Web services, depending on the communications mechanism used.
Call by reference or by value.
JNBridgePro can call Java objects by reference or by value. Web services can typically only access objects by value.
Manage callbacks and handle exceptions.
JNBridgePro makes it easy to implement callbacks and transparently throw exceptions. Web services makes it extremely difficult.
Access full object-oriented API.
JNBridgePro allows you to access a full object-oriented API. Web services restricts you to a very narrow service-oriented API.
Connect with any Java API.
Many Java applications and libraries are not Web service-enabled, which eliminates Web services interoperability as an option. JNBridgePro allows you to access any Java application or library.

Flexible Architecture

With JNBridgePro’s flexible architecture you can build applications that run on the same machine in the same process via shared memory, on the same machine but in different processes via socket communications, over any network via a fast binary protocol, or over the Internet via HTTP/SOAP. Need to change the application’s architecture? All it takes is a simple change to a configuration file; your code remains untouched.

JNBridgePro Supports

BizTalk Server 2006 and 2004
.NET Framework 1.0 through 3.0
JDK or JRE 1.3.1 through J2SE 5.0
Future versions of Java and .NET
Will work with Windows Vista

Download a PDF of the datasheet.

www.jnbridge.com/biztalk

JNBridgePro — Java and .NET Interoperability

JNBridge — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 01:41:00 GMT

JNBridgeProTM simplifies Java .NET interoperability by flawlessly connecting anything Java® to anything Microsoft® .NET, whether the Java and .NET components are running in the same process or across a network. JNBridgePro’s high-performance bridging architecture removes the complexities of cross-platform interop so you can generate solutions within minutes or hours rather than months.

Scale from in-process to cross-network bridging
With JNBridgePro’s flexible architecture you can build applications that run on the same machine in the same process via shared memory, on the same machine but in different processes via socket communications, over any network via a fast binary protocol, or over the Internet via HTTP/SOAP. Need to change the application’s architecture? All it takes is a simple change to a configuration file; your code remains untouched.

Access anything Java from .NET
Access anything .NET from Java
JNBridgePro enables you to join anything Java together with anything .NET across the platform boundary.
At the object or class level, anything includes objects, classes, instance members, static members, fields, properties, methods, generics, and enums.

On the Java side, anything includes J2SE, J2EE and all the leading J2EE application servers, EJBs, JMS, JNDI, and standalone JVMs.

On the .NET side, anything includes .NET rich-client GUIs, ASP.NET, and Microsoft’s BizTalk Server and Content Management Server.

When to use JNBridgePro
JNBridgePro’s interop is designed for combining .NET and Java/J2EE components when you require high-performance interaction at the object level. It permits you to use third-party .NET or Java-based APIs on the other platform, without requiring access to the source code. With JNBridgePro you can quickly offer both .NET and Java interfaces for a single application with a common code base.

Cross-platform magic
JNBridgePro makes the incompatible compatible so you don’t have to. JNBridgePro provides cross-platform exception handling, integrated object lifecycle management, garbage collection, datatype conversions, marshalling and unmarshalling of arguments, and manages references and communications.

Seven Steps to Interoperability

.NET calling Java

Determine which Java classes to expose to calls from .NET
Use proxy generation tool to create .NET assembly DLL containing proxies for Java classes
Reference proxy assembly from your .NET project
Write .NET code (VB, C++, or C#) that calls or inherits from the proxies
Configure JNBridgePro runtime components
Start Java runtime component in JVM or J2EE app server
Run .NET application

Java calling .NET

Determine which .NET classes to expose to calls from Java
Use proxy generation tool to create Java jar file containing proxies for .NET classes
Place proxy jar file in your Java project’s build classpath
Write Java code that calls or inherits from the proxies
Configure JNBridgePro runtime components
Start .NET runtime component in CLR
Run Java application

JNBridgePro Features

Bi-directional, high-performance Java .NET interoperability.
Access Java classes from .NET as though Java were a .NET language.
Access .NET classes from Java as though they were Java classes.
Access anything across the platform boundary, including objects, classes, instance members, static members, fields, properties, methods, generics, and enums.
Full class access includes support for callbacks, pass by reference or by value, and cross-platform exception handling.
Embed AWT or Swing Java widgets in .NET WinForm GUIs.
Embed .NET WinForm controls in AWT, SWT, or Swing apps.
Enterprise capabilities include failover and support for transactions.
Can use Java and .NET binaries. No source code necessary.
Communicate via shared memory, TCP/Binary, or HTTP/SOAP. Secure binary and HTTP channels available using SSL.
Select a different architecture and communications protocol via simple configuration file change.
Access J2SE or J2EE and all the leading J2EE application servers.

JNBridgePro Supports

.NET Framework 1.0 through 3.0
JDK or JRE 1.3.1 through J2SE 5.0 SDK
Future versions of Java and .NET
Will work with Windows Vista

Download a full PDF copy of this datasheet.

Download a free, full-featured evaluation of JNBridgePr o.

KLA-Tencor Links Java and .NET, Saves U.S.$1.6 Million

JNBridge — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 01:26:00 GMT

KLA-Tencor, which provides process control solutions for semiconductor manufacturers, sought to migrate from Java to Microsoft .NET, but it had thousands of lines of code that would have to be rewritten at a high cost. KLA-Tencor deployed JNBridgePro, allowing the company to access larger amounts of data across the Java and the .NET boundary, and at the same time boost its performance. This solution reduced both the development time and the risk of rewriting and converting the existing code base. It also saved the company U.S.$1.6 million, the amount it would have cost to rewrite the code.

Read the full case study.

Port 25 interview on Java and .NET Interoperability: JNBridge

JNBridge — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 01:02:00 GMT

Watch a Port 25 interview where Sam Ramji, Director of the Microsoft Open Source Software Lab talks to Wayne Citrin, CTO of JNBridge, about the challenges of Java and .NET interop.

JNBridge Releases Java and .NET Widget Embedding

JNBridge — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 23:54:00 GMT

JNBridge has just released JNBridgePro 3.1, the latest version of the company's flagship Java and .NET interoperability tool. JNBridgePro 3.1 enables developers to embed Java GUI controls directly into .NET applications, or .NET GUI widgets in Java applications.

JNBridgePro is a Java and .NET interoperability tool that easily connects anything Java to anything .NET. Developers can access Java objects and classes from .NET as if they were .NET objects and classes, or access .NET objects and classes from Java.

With this new version, developers can now embed Java widgets written in AWT or Swing directly inside WinForm applications, or embed .NET WinForms controls in to Java AWT, SWT, or Swing applications.

See the full press release on: http://www.jnbridge.com/pr110606.htm