Microsoft® .NET and J2EE Interoperability Toolkit

Chapter 3. Exchanging Data Between .NET and Java

Before you consider which technical options apply to creating solutions that can interoperate between Microsoft .NET and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE)—or buy products for creating such solutions—it is vital that you first consider how data will be passed between the tiers outlined in Chapter 2, and what types of data you’ll likely encounter. With any of the requirements presented in the previous chapter, data will always need to pass between at least some of the tiers on different platforms.

For example, the first scenario presented in Chapter 2 had a business requirement for a new presentation tier in Microsoft ASP.NET that called a business tier written for J2EE, as shown in Figure 3-1.

Figure 3-1. Requirement ...