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Session
Dynamic Java and Perl Integration with Nobjects: Object Oriented Interprocess Communication
Boris Katok, Dynamical Systems

Track: Products and Services
Date: Tuesday, October 01
Time: 2:15pm - 3:00pm
Location: Camino Real
While there are many ways to integrate Java and Perl applications together, they usually involve converting data from a program's internal data structures into a standard format, transmitting that data using a standard protocol, and then parsing it into the data structures of the application on the other end. These approaches to interprocess communication have been around for many years, but they no longer fit in well with modern object oriented software architectures. After all, if there are two object oriented programs that need to communicate with each other, why convert data that is already in an object model, to some non-object model for transmission, and then back into an object model that was probably similar to the one where the data originated in the first place? Boris Katok shows how Nobject technology can be used to dynamically integrate and synchronize the actual object hierarchies between running Java and Perl programs, allowing for truly object oriented interprocess communication.