What does “Any CPU” really mean?

There’s a new “Prefer 32-bit” option in Visual Studio 2012 that tripped us up, and can trip you up too. Running through some standard JNBridgePro test examples recently, we were surprised that the examples didn’t work, and the embedded Java side failed. The examples were created using Visual Studio 2012, set Any CPU, and, since […]

Build 2013 Impressions

I recently came back from Microsoft’s Build 2013 conference in San Francisco, where Microsoft’s latest technologies are introduced to developers.  Much of the conference was devoted to technology related to Metro/Modern Windows/Windows Store apps, and also to Windows Phone, neither of which are relevant to JNBridge’s mission.  However, there were a few things that caught […]

Instantiating Generic Collections

We had a question from a user recently asking how to instantiate certain generic collections in Java-to-.NET projects.  Some of the things that were discussed are of interest to the general community. The user had a .NET method that was proxied to Java.  The method had several parameters, one of which was List<string>, and the […]

Creating a .NET-based Visual Monitoring System for Hadoop

Report on the status of all the nodes in a Hadoop cluster by creating a .NET-based monitoring application that provides a snapshot of the entire Hadoop cluster in real time.

Forcing Visual Studio 2013 support for the WCF JMS Adapter

The JNBridge JMS Adapter for .NET is dependent on the Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation Line-Of-Business Adapter SDK. The SDK is released with versions of BizTalk Server, not Visual Studio. This year, BizTalk 2013 was released in the spring, but Visual Studio 2013 was released this fall, so the current version of the SDK doesn’t support VS […]