Re: [Ikvm-developers] Using IKVM

[Jeroen F. <je...@su...>]

Rob Koch wrote:
> I was faced with a task of building a Windows application (.NET, what
> else?) and hooking up with a Java-based server that uses SSLSockets and
> Anonymous Ciphers (DH)...
>
> .NET doesn't have a library that can handle what I needed believe it or
> not... need my SSLSockets!  Found a 3rd party that does SSLSockets via
> COM, but still no Anonymous Ciphers.  I was avery frustrated at that
> point and was about to give in and do the whole thing in Java.
>
> Lo and behold, IKVM... writing Java in .NET?  This I gotta see...
> *writing code*  Bam! It works!!
>
> IKVM was a life saver for me!  Thanks to you Jeroen F. and those who
> contributed to the project!

Thanks for the positive feedback.

> Two questions...
>
> 1. your docs says GNU.Classpath... but we got OpenJDK... and

Yeah, the docs are unfortunately a bit out of date. Contributions are most welcome :-)

> 2. I'm seeing a couple of throws in Mono's MoMA.  Isn't IKVM 100%
> complaint with Mono 1.9 yet?

There is some Windows/.NET specific code in a few places in IKVM (and some Mono specific code as well), but the right codepath will be executed based on the current platform, so that shouldn't be a problem.

Regards,
Jeroen