Parsing a .NET DataSet returned from a .NET Web Service in Java

Question

I have to consume a .NET hosted web service from a Java application. Interoperability between the two is usually very good. The problem I\'m running into is that the .NET ap

Answer 1

Is your Java application running on a server? If so, install Mono on the server and use ADO.NET built into Mono to convert the Dataset into something Java can understand. The advantage is that all the interpretation of the Dataset is done for you in Mono. You can even use IKVM to stay in the Java language world. Anyway, in the Mono world you can have a local service which can do the conversion, or simply have a utility that converts the Dataset into the file system in a format that Java can understand.