Efficient Interoperability between Java and .NET

GigaSpaces provides a high-performance interoperability platform.

Benefits

• For the enterprise, this means that the organization can have a common technology and product across different lines of business. This ensures that the product is developed in each platform, and can effectively interoperate at any given time. This also provides the flexibility to mix and match – for example, to use Java on the server side and .NET on the client side.
• Pure .NET applications can benefit from the richness and maturity of the architecture, and from the fact that they can have more flexibility when running some of their processes on more scalable linux/unix platforms.
• The most efficient way to interope between Java and .NET in the market today (compared to CORBA, WS, etc).

Performance

Unmatched levels of high-throughput and low-latency are acheived through the solution's support for both in-process (embedded) and out-of-process optimization.

Benefits

• Support for both in-process (embedded), and out-of-process optimization.
• Performance between Java and .NET is consistent – there is very little overhead, even when handling the portability between the two platforms.
• Latency is kept low.

PONO

The PONO is a .NET equivalent of the POJO in the Java world.

Benefits

• A consistent programming model across the two different languages.
• A declarative and non-intrusive way to map existing domain model objects into the space using .NET attributes.
• Simple – API appears in pure a .NET library, in a native format.

Portable Binary Serialization (PBS)

Support for Portable Binary Serialization (PBS) in GigaSpaces provides an extremely fast and efficient binary representation of .NET or Java objects.

Benefits

• Performance – a binary representation of .NET or Java objects is portable between the two domains even faster than in native serialization.
• An implicit conversation between .NET and Java data types such as date format, representation of floating points, etc.

Section Contents

• .NET Executable Configuration — Defining parameters in XML configuration file and <Default.JvmSettings>.
• .Net PONO API Framework — GigaSpaces JavaSpaces API Plain Old .NET Object support – the PONO.
• Building Your First PONO Application — Build and run a .NET application using the GigaSpaces PONO API.
• Monitoring JVM Memory and Threads in .NET Applications — Monitoring JVM memory and threads in .Net Applications, when troubleshooting application memory and thread consumption.
• Using ExternalEntry — How to get your .NET application to work with the GigaSpaces JavaSpaces interface.
  • .NET ExternalEntry Example — Understanding and running the .NET Hello World example at <GigaSpaces-Root>/dotnet/examples/hello-world.
  • Performing Space Operations from .NET — Finding a space; writing object to space; reading or taking from space; registering for notifications.
  • Setting up Visual Studio Project — Adding assembly references; copying unmanaged DLLs; using strongly-named assemblies.
• Using JDBC API and PONO API with .NET Applications — How to use the JDBC and POJO API with a C# application.