Oracle has organized a bunch of content for .NET devs, in the .NET Developer Center. Nice! ...

Java apps running on Windows can connect to MSMQ via JNI....

Novell's ldapcsharp library provides direct LDAP access to any .NET app. It's open source....

This Blog is dedicated to exploring interop opportunities between .NET-based systems and other systems. The key approaches to interop covered here include: W eb services, REST/POX, message queues, dedicated bridges, and others. Dino Chiesa is the primary...

Avoiding the pitfalls inherent in the contract-first design approach....

Simon does some hand-authoring of WSDD and web service implementations in Apache AXIS. I normally recommend doing "WSDL First" design and generating those artifacts....

Another example of using Java (binary) serialization as an interop mechanism between Java and .NET apps. This example uses a shared text file to exchange data between the Java and .NET apps. Example source included....

Whoa! check out this list of webcasts done by Simon. All available on-demand, all fresh January 2005. http://weblogs.asp.net/smguest/articles/webcasts.aspx

I was responding to a newsgroup question about how to use an XmlTextReader to open and read configuration settings. My answer was, don't. Craig Andera's " Last Configuration Section Handler " post from way back in 2003 is still the best way to read config...

Since both XMLBeans and .NET XML Serialization can map between objects and XML documents, apps can interchange data pretty simply, using XML and the mapping magic on either side. Save the state of a .NET object into XML stream, then load a Java object from that same stream. Or vice versa. The sample presented here shows how....

Caucho has ported their Hessian binary protocol to C#. I don't get why anyone needs this....

Just saw Ted Neward's 5-page brief on Java and .NET Interop (from 2004) http://www.theserverside.net/articles/content/Interoperability/Neward_Interoperability.pdf

There are many variations on Interop. Many of the posts on this blog discuss application-to-application connections, where a .NET app and a Java app can exchange messages or share data, but there are other options, such as application-to-infrastructure...

Just came out today. It highlights some of the interop work we Microsofties have been busy with lately. http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/execmail/2005/02-03interoperability.asp