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29 July 2008
Connecting to Exchange using JAX-WS, part 1
Yes, it is possible to Connect to Exchange using JAX-WS The fear and trepidation I had when considering the effort to connect a Java application to Exchange Server 2007 was well founded. It wasn't easy. I'm going to spoil the ending and tell you, yes, Read More...
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18 June 2008
Open Source and Interoperability
Open. Source. Is. Not. Interoperability. Ted Neward is an entertaining and talented writer, not to mention a stand-up guy, and a first-rate technogeek. But that doesn't mean he is always right. I was just reading and old post of his which I missed during Read More...
24 March 2008
Java/XML Binding Options? WebSphere prefers JAXB 2.0...
I'm looking to put together more Java and .NET interop samples. If any of you have any particular requests, let me know. One of the key areas for interop I'm looking at is XML serialization. Today I was scanning the web looking for insight into the leading Read More...
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10 October 2007
Date and Time Values and Java Interop: a concrete example using XStream
Last month I posted on Date and Time values and interop. One of the key points I made is that you can lose information (specifically timezone information) when you transition from .NET to something else. If you stay within .NET, then you don't lose that Read More...
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09 August 2007
Fact Check – IBM’s Steve Mills claims on MS and SOA
We saw an article on CNET that included quotes from Steve Mills of IBM directly related to Interop, SOA and Microsoft. Since Interop is one of our passions, we thought it would be worthwhile to respond. Given that we are approaching an election here in Read More...
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19 July 2007
Interop between ASMX and WCF Services
My esteemed colleague, Kevin , is working on a project where the customer has a bunch of ASP.NET (ASMX) web services, and they are looking at migrating to WCF. The customer's goal is simplicity: in stage 1, they'd like to keep their ASMX files, keep the Read More...
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23 March 2007
Using Java to program openXML documents
I've blogged about this before. Now I See there is a sourceforge project supporting the use of Java to access openXML docs. Brian Jones has the scoop: http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2007/03/20/programming-against-the-openxml-formats-with-java.asp Read More...
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16 February 2007
Open XML Workshop in Redmond, March 13-15
Want to learn about Open XML from the source? There's an opportunity coming up March 13-15 on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington. It's called the Open XML Deep Dive developer workshop . If you’re adopting Open XML, and need deep technical training Read More...
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31 October 2006
Use Office 2003 XML Schema, no worries
In the past I've posted some articles [ 1 , 2 ] about generating Office 2003 documents from a server-side Java application. I also posted some example code . Of note, the Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas are now also available under the Open Specification Read More...
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30 October 2006
Peter Galli of eWeek on Microsoft and its work on Interop
Editorial excerpt of the Week. From an article mostly about Sender ID , a specification for e-mail authentication, Peter Galli commented on Microsoft's recent work on interop: “Over the past four months Microsoft has announced a number of key interoperability Read More...
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06 January 2006
Prettification of XML - .NET 2.0 partial classes
Prettification of XML - .NET 2.0 partial classes I wrote about prettification of XML in Web Services earlier, and described how you can prettify your XML by modifying the generated code. As Ram points out, in .NET 2.0, you can use partial classes for Read More...
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06 January 2006
Prettification of XML Serialization within Web Services
Prettification of XML Serialization within Web Services This came up yesterday on an internal mailing list. A colleague remarked that, following best practices in modular schema design results in bloat of serialized messages, particularly with namespace Read More...
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11 February 2005
Apache XmlBeans and .NET XML Serialization
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. Read More...
10 December 2004
Java and .NET - Java serialization vs XML
No surprise here - using Java binary serialization is a bit faster than using XML serialization when sending messages between a Java app and a .NET app via MQSeries. But what may be surprising is the performance delta - not really that much. About 25% in my tests. YMMV. Read More...
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