Hot to connect dot net application and java application

[Padma priya Gururajan]

Hi,

In my project, I have a java application and a dot net application. The dot net application and the java application communicate to the database. How do I connect the dot net application and java application?

Thanks.

[William Brogden]

There are many options. What information do you have to exchange between them?

Bill

[Alvin Watkins]

While Bill is totally right (you can use web services, sockets, flat files, XML, JSON...) one approach I've used is JNative (A JNI opensource API). It's likely that one of the other methods is better for you, but if you can turn your Dot Net app to a DLL and access it in Java, there's another option for connecting the two for you...

[Ulf Dittmer]

Are the apps running on the same machine? What do you mean by "connect"?

[Padma priya Gururajan]

Hi,

The dot net and the java application are in the same machine. In this case, Can I convert the dot net application to a dll and access it in java?

[Paul Clapham]

That completely depends on the .Net application. But before you decide on a course of action I still think you need to clarify what you mean by "connecting" the two applications. If you're having trouble putting that into words, perhaps you could give an example of what could be done with this "connection". Or an example of something that might happen if you had it. Try to make those examples as detailed as possible.