On 2018-05-22, Christofer Dutz wrote: > Now I did start inspecting some options and stumbled over IKVM, which > seems to allow compiling a Java jar into a .Net dll library. This > should be usable in any .Net application.
Unfortunately IKVM is dead: http://weblog.ikvm.net/default.aspx?date=2017-04-21 In my experience it used to work kind of OK, but there are sections that are quirky. Also note there are subtle differences between .NET and Java that may lead to Java APIs feeling wrong for C# developers. I've never looked at PLC4X's API, but if it exposes bytes (which I expect) it will feel quite strange when you suddenly need to deal with signed bytes (.NET knows signed and unsigned bytes and the default "primitive" byte type is unsigned). The Lucene.NET folks have toyed with some automated tools that translate Java to C# source code, but in the end have ported all of it manually. I'm afraid there is no good solution without duplicating the work. For XMLUnit I've tried a few approaches including code generation from a DSL to Java and C# but given up. There always are areas where the generated code is not looking idiomatic and in the end I spent more time twiddling with the generator than writing algorithmic code. I'm now maintaining independent ports for both platforms. Stefan
