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Comparing J2EE with .NET
- ACCU 2002 Markus Voelter, CTO, MATHEMA AG
[email protected]
http://www.voelter.de
Slides (mostly ) by
Michael Stal, Senior Principal Engineer
SIEMENS AG, Dept. CT SE 2
E-Mail: mailto:[email protected]
Web: http://www.stal.de
Goal
 This is intended to be an objective
comparisons of the two platforms
 It will contain criteria to base a decision
which platform to use
 Interoperability issues
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Agenda
 Motivation
 Comparison
• Visions: Sun ONE and .NET
• Layer-by-Layer comparison of the infrastructures
 Summary
 Literature
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Web Frameworks
Core elements of Web Frameworks
Web Service User/Provider
Mainframe
Backend Server
Legacy
Micro/Macro Services
Integration
Layer
Frontend
Layer
Virtual Machine
Workflow Engine
(Web Server)
Core Services (Calendar, Preferences, Transactions, ...)
Service Context (Who, Where, When, Why, ....)
Service Description (WSDL)
Service Description, Discovery, Integration (UDDI)
Web-based and -related Protocols (HTTP, SMTP, ...)
Clients
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.NET – The Microsoft
Way of Life
.NET Foundation Services (Hailstorm)
Passport, Calendar, Directory & Search, Notification & Messaging,
Personalization, Web-Store/XML, Dynamic Delivery of Software and Services
.NET Framework & Tools
ASP.NET
Windows Forms
(Web Services, Web Forms,
ASP.NET Application
Services)
(Controls, Drawing,
Windows
Application Services)
Base Classes
(ADO.NET, XML, Threading, IO, ....)
Common Language Runtime
(Memory Management, Common Type System, Lifecycle Monitor)
.NET Servers
SQL Server, Biztalk, Commerce, Exchange, Mobile Information,
Host Integration, Application Center
.NET Devices
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PocketPC, ....
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Sun ONE (Open Net
Environment)
Service Creation and Assembly
(JB, JSP, EJB)
Web Services
Smart Policy
Smart Process
(LDAP, Kerberos, PKI,
OASIS Security))
(ebXML, XAML)
Service
Integration
(SQL, JDBC, XML,
XSLT, XP, JMS,
RMI, J2EE Connectors,
...)
Process
Management
Smart Management
(SNMP, CIM, WBEM, JMX)
Service
Container
(J2EE, EJB, JSP,
J2SE, J2ME,
MIDP, Java Card)
Service Platform
Service Interface
Smart Delivery
(XML, HTML, XHTML,
WML, VoiceXML,
XSLT, HTTP, SSL,
XP, SOAP, WSDL,
UDDI, ebXML, ...)
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Layer-By-Layer Comparison
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Hello World Example
 In C# and Java:
using System;
namespace MyNameSpace {
public class MyClass {
public static void Main(String [] args) {
Console.WriteLine(„Hello, C#!“);
}
}
}
package MyPackage;
public class MyClass {
public static void main(String [] args) {
System.out.println(„Hello, Java!“);
}
}
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Layers
 Runtime System
 Object model
 Base classes
- Reflection,
 Enterprise
-
Component model
Database access
XML
Server Pages
Remoting
Web Services
More Enterprise APIs
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The Runtime System
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.NET Runtime
It is called the Common Language Runtime (CLR)
It is intended for any language compiled to the MSIL
Provides integration for several languages
Provides support for non-OO languages (e.g. tail
recursion)
C#
VB.NET
C++
Perl
Compiler




MSIL +
Metadata
Garbage
Collection,
Security,
Multithreading,
...
Loader/
Verifier
Execution
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JIT
Managed
Code
Java Virtual Machine

The JVM is intended for Java and interprets Java Byte Code.
Other languages can be compiled to Java bytecode, however
(e.g. Ada)
Just-in-Time compilers exist for different environments and
OSs
Java
Compiler


CLASSFiles
Garbage
Collection,
Security Manager
Call-in+Call-out,
Multithreading,
...
Classloader/
Verifier
JIT
Interpreter
Hotspot
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Native
Code
Commonalities and
Differences
 Commonalities:
• Basic concepts are similar
 Differences:
• Java is intended for interpretation (e.g. typedependent primitives i_add, ...)
• Java allows for custom class loaders and security
managers
• .NET CLR provides a command set that also
supports functional languages
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The Object Model
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Object Model (.NET)
 In .NET, everything is an object
Types
Value Types
Reference Types
Pointers
System Value
Types
Interfaces
User Value
Types
Self-describing
Types
Enumerations
Classes
Delegates
Arrays
Boxed Values
User-Defined
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System.Object
 The „mother of all .NET classes“
public class Object {
public virtual int GetHashCode();
public virtual bool Equals();
public virtual String ToString();
public static bool Equals(object a, object b);
public static bool ReferenceEquals(object a,
object b);
public Type GetType();
protected object MemberWiseClone();
protected virtual Finalize()´;
}
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Object Model (.NET)
 .NET distinguishes between values types
and reference types:
• value types reside on the stack
• reference types reside on the heap
 In C#, there is no difference between
primitive types and classes
• Automatic boxing/unboxing provides transparency
 Special strongly-typed function
references
• called delegates
• and events)
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Object Model (Java)
 Java has primitive types and classes.
• No automatic boxing/unboxing
Types
Primitive Types
Reference Types
Arrays
Interfaces
Classes
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java.lang.Object
 The „Mother of all Java classes“
public class Object {
public Object();
public boolean equals(Object obj);
public final Class getClass();
public int hashCode();
public final void notify();
public final void notifyAll();
public String toString();
public final void wait() throws InterruptedException;
public final void wait(long timeout) throws
InterruptedException;
public final void wait(long timeout, int nanos)
throws InterruptedException;
protected Object clone() throws CloneNotSupportedException;
protected void finalize() throws Throwable;
}
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Object Model (Java)
 Primitive types cannot be transparently
used as an object. Special Holder classes
are necessary.
Integer i_ref = new Integer(7);
List l = ...
l.add( i_ref );
 There are no special function references.
Java uses Observer Pattern with
callback interfaces and inner classes
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.NET-Types that are not
available in Java
 Delegates & Events:
class MyClass {
...
public void somebodyTurnedOnTheLight( int which ) {
...
}
}
class AnotherClass {
...
public delegate void LightTurnedOn(int which);
public event LightTurnedOn OnLightTurnedOn;
...
OnLightTurnedOn+= new
LightTurnedOn(MyClass.somebodyTurnedOnTheLight);
}
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.NET-Types that are not
available in Java cont‘d
 Enumerations (value type):
enum Color : byte { RED = 1, BLUE = 2, GREEN = 3 };
 Jagged and unjagged Arrays:
int [2][] a; a[0] = new int[]{1}; a[1] = new int[]{1,2};
int [,] a = new int[2,2];
 Structs
(value types):
• Structs are implicitly sealed
• they do not support inheritance
public struct Name {
public String First;
public String Last;
}
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Commonalities and
Differences

Commonalities:

Differences
• Interfaces are „completely abstract classes“
• Support single inheritance for classes (implementation
inheritance) and multiple interface inheritance
• Default-Initialization of Variables
• Namespace-Concept (Java-Package and .NET-Namespace)
• Similar visibility attributes (public, private, ...)
• Future: Generic types in .NET and Java (Generics)
• Class Constructors (static initializer in Java)
• In .NET there is no difference between primitive types and
classes.
• Multiple languages support in .NET
• In Java all methods are implicitly virtual. In .NET this has to
be made explicit virtual, override, new).
• Java maps packages to directories. .NET doesn‘t.
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Metainformation
 Java and .NET provide a reflection API
• to load and instantiate classes
• and inspect classes (introspection).
 In addition, .NET allows to annotate
many aspects of a system (classes,
members, operations) with so-called
Attributes
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.NET Examples
 Using an Atttribute
[AuthorIs(„Michael“)]
class MyClass { ... }
• There are several predefined attributes
(WebService, WebMethod, ...)
 Defining an Attribute
[AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.All)]
public class AuthorIsAttribute : Attribute {
private string m_Name;
public AuthorIsAttribute(string name) { m_Name = name;}
}
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.NET Examples cont‘d
 Accessing and using Type information
using System;
using System.Reflection;
namespace ComponentClient {
class Client {
static void Main(string[] args) {
Assembly a = Assembly.LoadFrom("Component.dll");
Type [] allTypes = a.GetTypes();
Type t = allTypes[0];
object o = Activator.CreateInstance(t);
MethodInfo mi = t.GetMethod("algorithm");
double d = (double) mi.Invoke(o, new object[]{21.0});
}
}
}
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Java Example
 Accessing and using Type information:
• Note that packages are not the same as
assemblies!!
import java.lang.reflect.*;
try {
Class c = Class.forName(„MyPrintComponent“);
Object o = c.newInstance();
Method m = c.getMethod(„print“, new Class[]{ String.class });
m.invoke(o, new Object[]{„Hallo, Java!“});
}
catch (Exception e) {
// handle it here
}
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Commonalities and
Differences
 Commonalities:
• Very similar APIs
 Differences:
• .NET allows additional, user-defined meta
information with attributes
• Java Reflection is sometimes a bit more clumsy
(because of primitive types and classes)
• .NET allows to actually create new artifacts at
runtime and instantiate them or store them in
assemblies.
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Statements
 Both platforms support basically the

same statements
Differences:
• switch-Statement allows Strings, but no
fallthrough:
string name = address.name;
switch (name) {
case “Maier”: Console.WriteLine(“Nice to meet you, Hans!”);
break;
case “Mueller”,
case “Huber”: Console.WriteLine(“You owe me some money!”);
break;
default: Console.WriteLine(“I don’t know you”);
break;
}
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Statements (cont‘d)
 Differences:
• Iterators in .NET:
foreach (Elem i in MyContainer) { Console.WriteLine(i); }
...
class MyContainer : IEnumerable, IEnumerator {
public IEnumerator GetEnumerator() {
return (IEnumerator)this;
}
public void Reset() { ... }
public bool MoveNext() { ... }
public object Current { get { ... } }
}
• Note that these are still no „internal iterators“ as in
Smalltalk, for example!
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Statements (cont‘d)
 Differences:
• Iterators in Java:
for (Iterator i = MyContainer.iterator(); i.hasNext();)
doSomething(i.next());
...
class MyContainer implements Iterator {
public boolean hasNext() {…}
public Object next() {...}
public void remove() {...}
public Iterator iterator() { return this; }
}
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Statements (cont‘d)
 Differences:
• Properties in .NET, where Java uses Coding
conventions
Class MyClass { ...
public double x {
set { if (x < 0)
throw new ArgumentException (“< 0”);
m_x = value;
}
get { return m_x; }
} ...
// User:
MyClass m = new MyClass(); m.x = 22;
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Statements (cont‘d)
 Differences:
• .NET supports Indexers, Java does not.
object[17] = 22;
// In class:
Int [] m_a;
public double this[int pos] {
get { return m_a[pos]; }
set { m_a[pos] = value; }
}
• Indexers also work with non-integer keys, such as
strings
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Statements (cont‘d)
 Differences:
• .NET supports operator overloading!
public static Point operator+(Point op1, Point op2) {
return new Point(op1.x+op2.x,op1.y+op2.y);
}
...
Point p = new Point(1,2) + new Point(2,3);
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Statements (cont‘d)
 Differences:
• .NET allows pass-by-reference of method
arguments
class Test {
public void Print(int i) { Console.WriteLine(i); }
public void Inc(ref int i) { i++; }
public int SetInitial(out int i) { i = 42; }
...
}
Test t = ...; int i;
t.SetInitial(out i);
t.Inc(ref i);
t.Print();
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Statements (cont‘d)

Exceptions in Java
• Exceptions have to be declared in the throws-clause
public int insert(int i) throws OverLimitException;
{ … }

Exceptions in .NET
• Exceptions are not declared
// only way to tell you about
// OverLimitException thrown below
public int insert(int i) { … }
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Important Base Classes
No big conceptual differences here.
.NET
Java
GUI
Windows.Forms
Web.Forms
SWING, AWT
Kommunikation
System.Net:
Connection,
HttpWebRequest,
...
Java.net: Sockets, URL,
...
Container
System.Collections:
ArrayList, BitArray,
Maps, Queue, List,
Stack
java.util: Lists, Maps,
Sets, Trees, Vectors
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Multithreading
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Multithreading in .NET
 .NET uses delegates for multithreading
• The „ThreadStart“ in the example below
 There are monitors for synchronization
• The “lock” in the example below
class GlobalData {
int m_Value;
public int Value { set { lock(this) { m_Value = value; } } }
}
class Worker {
GlobalData m_Global;
public Worker(GlobalData global) {m_Global = global; }
public void loop() { m_global.Value = 42; Thread.Sleep(100); }
}
// somewhere else:
GlobalData g = new GlobalData();
Thread tMarkus
= new
Thread(new
Worker().loop));
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t.Start();
t.Join();
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Multithreading in Java
 In Java there is also a class „Thread“
 For synchronization there is the
synchronized keyword
class GlobalData {
int m_Value;
public synchronized int setValue { return m_Value; }
}
class Worker implements Runnable {
GlobalData m_Global;
public Worker(GlobalData global) { m_Global = global; }
public void run() { m_Global.setValue(42); Thread.sleep(100); }
}
// somewhere else:
GlobalData g = new GlobalData();
Thread tMarkus
= new
Thread(new
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t.start();
t.join();
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Commonalities and
Differences
 Commonalities:
• Threading is very similar!
• Both use some forms of monitor for
synchronization
 Differences:
• In Java, synchronization is better integrated into
the Java language
• Java provides better synchronization and thread
communication (wait, notify, ...).
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Deployment
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Assemblies in .NET
 Assembly=Set of Types
name
Sharedname
version
Hash
Files
Manifest
Custom
Attributes
Type 1
IL-Code
Type 2
IL-Code
Type 3
IL-Code
Referenced
Security
Assemblies
Product
Information
Metadata
Module 1
Resources
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Types
Assemblies in .NET
 Private Assemblies are typically only

useful by the owning application
Shared Assemblies are stored in a
common cache and can be used by
several applications.
• They are signed by a key
• They are versioned!!
 Runtime uses Application Domains as an
abstraction for (potentially remote)
processes.
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Java JAR files
 .jar files are similar to .NET‘s assemblies
• They can be shared or private
• They can be signed
 They contain
• types
• resources
• optionally, metadata in manifest files.
 There is no versioning!
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Commonalities and
Differences
 Commonalities:
• Assemblies and JAR files provide „deployment“
components
 Differences:
• Much better versioning support in .NET (side-byside execution)
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Component Models
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Server-Side Components in
.NET
 Now Component is used like in EJB/COM+
 To use container-provided services like
synchronisation or transactions COM+
services can be used
 COM+-Interop provides these features.
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Java Component Models
 Client Components and Server

Components
JavaBeans are Client Components
• normal Java classes following some conventions
• optionally providing metainformation (BeanInfo
class)
public class MyJavaBean {
private int color;
public void setColor(int v) { color = v; }
public int getColor() { return color; }
// a lot of more ...
}
// BeanInfo
class not shown here!
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Server Components in Java
 Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) always
reside in a Container that provides
technical aspects (sep. of concerns)
JNDI
Naming
Service
1) lookup home
2) create bean
2”) find bean
Deployment
Descriptor
EJB
Home
Remote Bean
Home Interface
EJB
Context
EJB
Jar
new
4
Client
EnterpriseBean
EJB
Object
4) remove
3) Use bean
Remote Bean
Interface
ejbCreate
ejb...
Bean
Instance
bean-methods
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EJB Run-time
Application
Server (Container)
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Server Components in Java
cont‘d
 4 Types of Beans
•
•
•
•
Stateless Session-Beans (Service Components)
Stateful Session Beans (Session Components)
Entity-Beans (Entity Components)
Message-Driven Beans (asynch. Service
Components)
 A bean is (theoretically) portable across
containers (Application Servers) from
different vendors.
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Commonalities and
Differences
 Commonalities:
• Server Components are available (Assemblies +
COM+, EJB).
• Interop with legacy components in .NET using
COM+, in Java using CORBA)
 Differences:
• EJB are a more mature and proven model
• Special APIs to connect to legacy systems (Java
Connector API)
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Database Access in .NET
 In .NET there is ADO.NET
• “connectionless”
Client
DataSet
Command
DataSetCommand
Connection
Data Source
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DataReader
Managed Provider
.NET-Beispiel
using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
string myConnection =
“server=myserver;uid=sa;pwd=;database=StockTickerDB”;
string myCommand = “SELECT * from StockTable”;
SqlDataSetCommand datasetCommand = new
SqlDataSetCommand(myCommand, myConnection);
DataSet myDataSet = new DataSet();
datasetCommand.FillDataSet(myDataSet, “StockTable”);
DataTable myTable =ds.Tables[“StockTable”];
foreach (DataRow row in myTable.Rows) {
Console.WriteLine(“Value of {0} is {1}”,
row[“LongName”], row[“Value”]);
}
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ADO.NET
 ADO.NET is XML based (XML Infoset)
• DataSet dynamically builds an XML schema inside
to store the data
• Relational data and XML data can be handled in a
similar way!!
 ADO.NET works offline once the data is
fetched
• Updating is partly automatic using DataSets
 Currently there are two Managed
Providers:
• SQL Server
• ADO
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Database Access in Java
 Java provides JDBC to access relational
data
Application
Statement
Resultset
Prepared
Statement
Connection
Callable
Statement
Driver Manager
JDBC/
ODBC Bridge
ODBC Driver
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ODBC
DB
Java Example
import java.sql.*;
// without error handling:
Class.forName(„sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver“);
Connection
con=DriverManager.getConnection(„jdbc:odbc:stocks,““,““);
Statement stmt = con.CreateStatement();
ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery(„SELECT * from stocks“);
while (rs.next()) {
System.out.println(rs.getString(„COMPANYNAME“));
}
rs.close();
stmt.close();
con.close();
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Database Access in Java
 There are several other APIs:
• Embedded SQL in the form of SQLJ (uses JDBC
internally)
• Proprietary ODBMS APIs
• Standardized JDO API to provide (more or less
transparent) persistence for Java Objects
• XML is handled differently!
• Java Connector API provides access to other
„connection oriented“ legacy systems (such as SAP
R3)
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Commonalities and
Differences
 Commonalities:
• Decoupling of the concrete data model and the
user (using DataSets and ResultSets)
 Differences:
• ADO.NET uses XML extensively, JDBC has a more
relational flavor
• JDBC is connection oriented, ADO.NET always
works non-connected, or offline
• .NET DataSets are a kind of In-Memory-DatabaseCache.
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XML
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XML and .NET
 .NET is very XML-centric
•
•
•
•
Web Services (SOAP)
Configuration Files
Result sets of a database access (ADO.NET)
XML processing itself
 Note that formally, many .NET features
are based on the XML infoset („XML
semantics“) and do not necessarily
require megabytes of text data!!
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XML and .NET cont‘d
 The System.Xml Namespace provides a
whole lot of classes
• DOM processing using XmlNode & Sons
• XPath and XslTransform
• XmlTextReader und XmlTextWriter similar to
SAX in that they are both stream-based, but .NET
uses a Pull-Model
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XML und Java

There are several standards and tools available

However, Java‘s libraries have not been designed
with XML as a basis (Java‘s too old )
JAXP (Java API for XML Parsing) supports DOM
and SAX.
Currently under development


•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
DOM, SAX
Xerces/Xalan, JDOM
JAX{M,B,R,RPC}
Castor
JAXM (Java API for XML Messaging)
JAXB (Java API for XML Data Binding)
JAXR (Java API for XML Registries)
JAX/RPC (Java API for XML based RPC)
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Remoting
Somebody knows a
nice picture here?
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Remoting in .NET
Application Domain A
Application Domain B
Client
Servant
Transparent Proxy
Real Proxy
Object Context Sinks
Server Context Sinks
Envoy Sinks
Channels
Formatters
Network
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Channels
Formatters
Remoting in .NET (cont‘d)
 .NET Remoting provides pluggable
transports and formatters
• currently TCP and HTTP transport and
• binary and SOAP formatters
 Contexts are automatically propagated

(very neat feature!!)
Only very simple lifecycle management
options for servants (compared to EJB or
CORBA)
• Singleton (one object for all calls)
• SingleCall (new instance for each call)
• Client-Activated based on leases
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Remoting in .NET (cont‘d)
 Objects can be marshalled by value
(Serializable)
 Asynchronous invocations are easily
possible without touching the servant
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Remoting in Java
 Several possibilities: RMI/CORBA
• RMI can use JRMP or IIOP as a transport protocol
• Not pluggable – changes in the code are necessary
Client
Stub
Server
Stub/Skeleton-Layer
Remote Reference Manager
Transport Layer
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Skeleton
Commonalities and
Differences
 Commonalities:
• Relatively easy to use
 Unterschiede:
• .NET Remoting can be extended more flexibly
• Java provides Interop with CORBA
• Asynchronous invocations are not easily possible
with Java
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Web
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ASP.NET
(Server-Side Scripting)
 ASP.NET Architecture:
(1) get a.apx
Client
(4) HTTP file
IIS 5
Web
Server
(2) process
(3) result
.NET
Assembly
Other
Assemblies
.NET
Engine
Database
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ASP.NET Example

A simple login
screen:
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ASP.NET Example (cont‘d)
<%@ Page language="c#" Codebehind="WebForm1.aspx.cs"
AutoEventWireup="false" Inherits="LoginPage.WebForm1" %>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" >
<HTML>
<body>
<form id="Form1" method="post" runat="server">
<asp:Label id="TitleLabel" runat="server">Please specify your name and
password</asp:Label> <br>
<asp:Label id="LoginLabel" runat="server">Login</asp:Label> <br>
<asp:TextBox id="LoginText" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
<asp:RequiredFieldValidator id="RequiredFieldValidator" runat="server"
ErrorMessage="You need to specify your name"
ControlToValidate="LoginText"></asp:RequiredFieldValidator> <br>
<asp:Label id="PasswordLabel" runat="server">Password</asp:Label> <br>
<asp:TextBox id="PasswordText" runat="server"
TextMode="Password"></asp:TextBox> <br>
<asp:Button id="EnterButton" runat="server" Text="Open the entrance"
ToolTip="Press this after you have specified login and
password"></asp:Button> <br>
<asp:Label id="MessageText" runat="server"></asp:Label>
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ASP.NET Example (cont‘d)
// lot of details omitted
namespace LoginPage {
public class WebForm1 : System.Web.UI.Page {
protected TextBox PasswordText, LoginText;
protected Button EnterButton;
protected Label MessageLabel;
private void InitializeComponent() {
this.EnterButton.Click +=
new System.EventHandler(this.EnterButton_Click);
this.Load += new System.EventHandler(this.Page_Load);
}
private void EnterButton_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e) {
if (!(LoginText.Text.Equals("aladdin") &&
PasswordText.Text.Equals("sesam"))) {
MessageLabel.Text = " Wrong name or password!";
}
else {
Session["user"] = "aladdin";
Response.Redirect("UserArea.aspx");
}
}
}
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Java Server Pages and
Servlets
 Java also allows for server-side scripting
• JSPs are based on Servlets
(1) get a.jsp
Client
(5) HTTP file
Web
Server
(2) process
Other
Components
JSP
(3) gen. Servlet Servlet
Impl.
(4) result
Servlet
JVM
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Database
Java Example
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Java Example
 Bean und JSP-Seite:
// Datei MyPerson.java
package MyPackage;
import java.lang.*;
public class MyPerson {
public String getFirstName() { return "Michael"; }
public String getLastName() { return "Stal"; }
}
// Datei MyTest.jsp:
<HTML> <BODY>
<jsp:useBean id="person" scope="session"
class="MyPackage.MyPerson"/>
Your name is: <br>
<jsp:getProperty name="person" property="firstName"/> <br>
<jsp:getProperty
name="person" property="lastName"/>
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Commonalities and
Differences
 Commonalities:
• Pages are precompiled to accelerate access
• Similar syntax and concepts
• ASP.NET provides „GUI components“ using
Webcontrols, Java provides Taglibs.
 Differences:
• All .NET languages can be used for ASP.NET
scripting
• Servlets/JSP are available for a wide range of
webservers
• Many open source implementations, frameworks
and tools for Java
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Web Services in .NET
 .NET provides a very comfortable and
well-integrated way to build them:
namespace WebService1 {
public class Service1 : System.Web.Services.WebService {
// lot of stuff omitted
[WebMethod]
public double DM_to_Euro(double value) {
return value / 1.95583;
}
[WebMethod]
public double Euro_to_DM(double value) {
return value * 1.95583;
}
}
}
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Web Services in .NET (forts.)
 Using it is also simple
• Some steps have been ommitted
localhost.Service1 s1 = new localhost.Service1();
double result = s1.Euro_to_DM(200);
 Webservices are „just a special way of
remoting“
 BUT:
• Microsoft does not provide ebXML compliance
• Currently they can only be used with MS server
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Web Services in Java


Sun ONE will provide a Web Service API for
Java, completely ebXML compliant
Currently there are many proprietary solutions
• Some specific SOAP toolkits:
- Apache SOAP
- IBM Web Services Toolkit
- GLUE
• Some integrated with the major application servers

-
Silverstream
IONA
Weblogic
...
Sun works at standard APIs
• JAXM
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Commonalities and
Differences
 Commonalities:
• Both.NET and Java try to be standards-compliant
(SOAP, WSDL, UDDI).
• Handling very similar: WSDLbased generators that
create proxies
 Differences:
• For Java there are different solutions, whereas
.NET provides only one, natively
• Currently, standards are interpreted differently, so
Interop Java-.NET is only limited. But this will
hopefully change!!
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More Enterprise APIs
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Enterprise APIs
 Naming:
• JNDI in Java (as an interface to CORBANaming,
LDAP, ...)
• Active Directory in .NET (Windows-specific)
 Message-orientierte Middleware:
• JMS in Java
• JAXM is on the horizon (XML based messaging)
• .NET can use MSMQ, and remoting can be used
asynchronously
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Legacy-Integration
 In .NET using the Microsoft Host

Integration Server.
In Java using the Connector API
 Comparison: Java provides a much
simpler way. Connectors can be
implemented relatively straight forward.
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Interoperability
 Java provides access to C/C++ using
JNI (Java Native Interface). Relatively
complex call-in, call-out.
 .NET provides PInvoke:
class PInvokeTest {
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
static extern int MessageBoxA(int hWnd, string m, string c, int t);
static void Main(string[] args) {
MessageBoxA(0, "Hello DLL", "My Window", 0);
}
}
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Interoperability cont‘d
 In .NET there is a way to interop with



COM+ and COM+ Services.
Java provides CORBA interop
JMS provides integration with MoMs
In .NET, the interop between .NET
languages is almost perfect and easy
• Use the same assemblies, class libraries…
• Languages had to be adapted a little bit (e.g.
Managed C++ does not provide multiple
inheritance)
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Mobile and Embedded
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Profiles and devices
 There are the following variants of Java
• J2SE (Java 2 Platform Standard Edition)
• J2EE (Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition)
• J2ME (Java 2 Platform Micro Edition)
- Configurations,
- and Profiles
• JavaCard
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Profiles and devices cont‘d

.NET Universe
• .NET: Framework for Standard und Enterprise
• .NET Compact Framework for Windows CE (and other
embedded OS)
- Design Goals:
> Resource saving
> Adaptability regarding device properties
> Compatibility with the standard IDEs
> Easy integration
> Seamless connectivity
- No ASP.NET, Reflection.Emit, Optimized JIT
- Depending on machine stack
- Simplified versioning and security, but
similar formats
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Profiles and devices cont‘d
 .NET Mobile Web SDK
•
•
•
•
•
Abstraction for the developer
Several markup languages (WML, HTML, ...)
Configurable and extendible
ASP.NET can be used
Emulators for devices are available for testing and
debugging purposes
• Extends ASP.NET with special controls
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Selecting one of the two
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.NET and/or Java ?



.NET is a product, Java and J2EE is a
specification
Both adress the web (among other things)
For „real big systems“ J2EE is better suited

The rule-of-thumb „Java is platform-
independent,´.NET is language independent“
must be considered carefully:
• ECMA works on the standardization of C# and parts of .NET
• Other languages can be compiled to the JVM
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.NET and/or Java ?

.NET language independence is not for free and
not completely transparent
#pragma once
using namespace System; // .NET mit C++
namespace CPPBase {
public __gc class CPPBaseClass {
public: virtual System::String __gc* Echo(System::String __gc *s);
};
}
System::String __gc * CPPBase::CPPBaseClass::Echo(System::String __gc *s)
{ return s; }

In a real project you might want to use only
one language
• But sometimes... 
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.NET and/or Java ?




Windows Applications are probably better done
with .NET than Java (maybe IBMs SWT changes
this ?)
Java should be used when platform (or vendor) independence is necessary
Java is more mature
There will also be Java for .NET (Rational)
• But syntax is not the issue!

Both can be used for web services - .NET is
„nicer“, J2EE is more scalable

Analysts proclaim a fifty/fifty situation for Java
and .NET
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Management Summary - 1
.NET
Java
Controller/Owner
Microsoft
Sun + JCP-Partner
Status
Product Line
Specification and many
implementations
Languages
C#, C++, Eiffel#, VB, ....
Java
Communication
middleware (RPC,
Messaging, Web)
.NET Remoting, MSMQ,
Web Services (no ebXML)
RMI/CORBA, JMS, Web
Services (standard
compliant)
Server Components
COM+
Enterprise JavaBeans
XML-Support
Consistent
Currently not yet
completely integrated
Server Pages
ASP.NET
JSP/Servlets
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+ possibly others
Management Summary - 2
.NET
Java
Database access
ADO.NET (ADO)
JDBC / SQLJ and others
Base libraries
Many many classes on
System.*
Many many classes on
java.*
GUI-Libs
Windows.Forms
Web.Forms
Swing/AWT
Runtime
.NET CLR
Java JVM
Interop (call-in/call-out)
PInvoke
JNI
InteropMiddleware
COM/COM+ (COM
Interop)
CORBA, JMS
Legacy Integration
Host Integration Server
JCA
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The End
Thank you very much!!
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