Navigating Product Support on Windows 8

Plenty has already been written about the pros and cons of Windows 8’s new Metro interface and Start screen. We don’t plan to rehash that here, but we are starting to think about how we will support it. Prior to Windows 8, the users have had access to the Start menu, and we’ve made good […]

JNBridge Profile in SD Times 100 Supplement

We’re honored to included in the 2012 SD Times 100, in the APIs and Integration category. While the announcement was made a few short months ago, SD Times just came out with the supplement that profiles all the winners. The SD Times 100 names companies and organizations of all sizes who have demonstrated leadership and […]

Windows Azure PaaS vs. IaaS

As a follow-on to our recent JNBridge lab showing how to write Hadoop mapreducers using .NET and JNBridgePro, we were planning to show how to take Hadoop and those .NET mapreducers and deploy them to Windows Azure. This would have a number of advantages over Microsoft’s own Hadoop-on-Azure initiative, which does not support .NET-based mapreducers […]

Announcing JNBridgePro v6.1

We’re excited to announce the release of JNBridgePro v6.1. The new version connects Java and the .NET Framework both on the ground and in the cloud, and has all the features of previous versions of JNBridgePro, plus the following significant new features: We’ve added support for the new Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5. […]

Customer questions answered: Handling optional parameters in JNBridgePro

We received a support question recently concerning methods in .NET with optional parameters, and how to call them from Java. This is something that I think would be of interest to a number of our users. If a method has optional parameters, they can be left out of the arguments when the method is called. […]