[Ikvm-developers] IKVM.NET running in the the (Windows Azure) cloud

[M. D. P. <xml...@gm...>]

Hey Jeroen, IKVM.NET dev community:
Just FYI: As per the checkin notes for r19701@
http://www.codeplex.com/nuxleus/SourceControl/ListDownloadableCommits.aspx

while at the moment this web app itself doesn't really doing anything all
> that exciting, this checkin represents the /full/ capability of running a
> complex Java-based codebase such as Saxon in the partial trust world of the
> Windows Azure fabric. *SWEET*


Of course Windows Azure is a partial trust environment which means this is
only possible using a version of IKVM.NET that supports partial trust.  I'm
not sure if that means any dev build from
http://weblog.ikvm.net/PermaLink.aspx?guid=15ad7222-7805-49f0-8e19-e6ac62403fac
forward,
but I do know that the latest official [0.36.0.11] release (according to the
SF.NET project page[http://sourceforge.net/projects/ikvm/]<http://sourceforge.net/projects/ikvm/>,
anyway, which I assume is up-to-date?) does not work inside of the Windows
Azure fabric due to the inability to obtain adequate permissions.

FTR: The proof-of-concept uses the latest Dec. 1st, 2008 dev build[1] of
IKVM.NET (though I assume the Nov.12th RC would work just as well?) and the
latest release of Saxon/Saxon on .NET[2], which can collectively be found
@[3].  The Windows Azure web and worker application can be found @[4] which,
by the end of my dev session today, I hope to have running the cleaned-up
version of the threaded conversation sample app running @[5] -- which is, of
course, powered by Saxon on .NET/IKVM.NET -- on both W2k3 /and/
GNU/Linux/Mono/lighttpd inside of the AWS:EC2 cloud at present time.

If anyone has interest in any of this, I plan to do a write up on
oreilly.com once I've got things to a state in which seems worth
broadcasting to a broader audience. Will update this thread with the various
details once complete.

[1] http://weblog.ikvm.net/default.aspx?date=2008-12-01
[2] https://saxon.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/saxon/latest9.1/
[3] https://nuxleus.svn.codeplex.com/svn/trunk/Source/Dependencies/Saxon
[4]
https://nuxleus.svn.codeplex.com/svn/trunk/Source/CodeSamples/Azure/WaW_Test
[5] http://whattheyshouldhavesaid.org/  [uname: guest pword: guest$$2008]


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