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Newbie question : ICE with .NET

Duncan
Duncan
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Apologies for the general nature of this question. I am looking at ICE for use in a .NET environment for a distributed printing applications. It is a mixed C/C# code base. I am interested in people's experience with ICE in a .NET context and their reasons for choosing ICE over other approaches. If you prefer to contact me direct you can, on dunwin@bing.com.

Duncan Unwin

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  • kwaclaw
    kwaclaw Oshawa, Canada
    Duncan wrote: »
    Apologies for the general nature of this question. I am looking at ICE for use in a .NET environment for a distributed printing applications. It is a mixed C/C# code base. I am interested in people's experience with ICE in a .NET context and their reasons for choosing ICE over other approaches. If you prefer to contact me direct you can, on dunwin@bing.com.

    Duncan Unwin

    Well, what are the choices, if you want to communicate across platforms?

    - CORBA:
    Read Michi's comparison with ICE.

    - DCOM:
    Deprecated.

    - Web services (SOAP or REST):
    Only useful for coarse grained interfaces (due to overhead).
    Not as standardized as one might think - they even had to create
    a standard within the WS series of standards called WS-I
    (I for interoperability) to address the issues.

    - .NET Remoting + Java RMI with bridge software:
    Have to buy extra commercial software. Licenses are not cheap.
    Only works .NET <--> Java

    - ICE:
    Tested .NET against Java - it simply works. There were a few code
    generation issues but they have been fixed - obviously the .NET
    implementation had not been used as heavily yet to iron out all the issues.
    In my case it enabled me to expose a vendor provided and somewhat
    non-standard SOAP web service in a way that everyone could use.

    Karl

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