Question #189458 on Sikuli changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/sikuli/+question/189458
daluu posted a new comment: Interesting discussion. While porting the Java API to .NET is the optimal choice, as Matthew suggested there are other options, though less integrated/native. Porting to .NET is probably not ideal unless adopted by the Sikuli team because that would also be like forking it for another platform and then you'd have 2 different code bases in different feature/release/bug fix cycles. Other options besides what Matthew suggested, could be: * expose Sikuli Java API as a web service (REST, XML-RPC, SOAP), then consume that web service with a .NET client library wrapper that gives you same API but in .NET form. Then you simply need load that .NET client library to use as API, assuming the Java web service is up. * expose Sikuli Java API with a shell/command line interface, and then call that from .NET shell execute. Can also make a .NET client library wrapper to abstract away the need to make shell calls as well. I'm not familiar with the Java process & marshalling approach, but the web service approach fits well with cloud & distributed computing/testing model, and can scale. For the web service approach, and even shell approach, some of the basis of that work is already available. So one simply needs to customize the exposed Java API from the Java side, then write the .NET client library wrapper: Shell & XML-RPC integration http://code.google.com/p/simplesikuli/ Other options via XML-RPC or APIs: https://github.com/enix12enix/sikuli-remote-control https://github.com/enix12enix/sikuliserver This topic discussion also applies generically across platforms (e.g. use Sikuli with Perl, PHP, C/C++, VBScript, node.js, etc.). And in such case, the web service approach (and shell calls too) adapts more easily across the platforms (compared to figuring out how to marshall data in other platforms from a Java process). -- You received this question notification because you are a member of Sikuli Drivers, which is an answer contact for Sikuli. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~sikuli-driver Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~sikuli-driver More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
