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. […]

Customer questions answered: Cross-platform method overrides in JNBridgePro

Here’s another interesting question from the support inbox. Let’s say that you have a .NET class that contains a virtual method, and you want to override it in your Java code. The immediate answer would seem to be to proxy the .NET class, then write a Java class that extends the proxy class and override […]

The Problems with the Windows 8 Start Screen

A lot of attention has been paid to the problems that enterprise users have with the new Windows 8 Start Screen. Most of the discussion seems to center around the fact that the old-style Start Menu is no longer available, but I don’t think that’s the issue. The problems are inherent in the new Start […]

Building a LINQ provider for HBase MapReduce

Explore building a simple .NET LINQ provider for HBase. This lab uses the Java API for creating, managing and scanning HBase tables and the .NET LINQ provider interfaces.