Microsoft at JavaOne

This is further proof of how serious sun and microsoft are about interoperating .NET and Java. There are 3 full sessions and a BOF at this years JavaOne.


* TS-3552: Interoperability Track Keynote - Mark Hapner (Distinguished Engineer) from Sun and Andrew Laymen (Director of Distributed Systems) from Microsoft kick off the interoperability track! Mark and Andrew will be covering WS-* Web Services Architecture.

* TS-9886: Advanced Web Services Interoperability - Simon Guest(Microsoft) and Raghavan Srinivas(Sun). This is on recommendations and strategies for using Web Services to interoperate between Java and .NET today.

* BOF-9095: "On the Couch with Microsoft and Sun" - Marina Fisher (Sun) and Simon Guest(Microsoft) . The format is simple: 3 people from Microsoft (Doug Purdy, Dino Chiesa and myself). 3 people from Sun (Marina, Ray Lai and Laurence Moroney).

* TS-3367: Interoperability using Techniques other than Web Services - everyone is aware that there are many ways to achieve interoperability between Java and .NET. In his session (on Thursday), Kevin Wittkopf from Microsoft will be examining some of these. Expect to hear about different types of connectors, bridges and RMI/Remoting techniques.

So plan to attend. JavaOne starts on June27 and goes till Jun 30th at San Francisco.