Emil, I'm a good expert on .NET architecture and technology, having contributed for years to the development of Mono and being a recognized developer and architect in this domain.
Last week I tried to implement a port version of neo4j for .NET, applying the same concepts you implemented, not always plain porting the code: Java and C# themselves are pretty different seen from inside, and when you put in the middle also some architectural issues like transactions and such (eg. the NIO extension), the things become much less straight-forward. Although at the beginning my plan was to port in short time neo4j to .NET, once I analyzed the full source code I've been aware of the impossibility to accomplish this goal in small time: in fact, I decided to start the implemenation of a brand new project based on the concepts, rather than the actual code, of neo4j. This, as you can guess, requires additional work for the architectural design, prototyping and implementation, plus testing. In the short-medium term then, the best way will be to use a REST solution, as you suggested (but I've already considered, in case of not existence of native .NET solutions), which is not optimal by the way, although viable for the bootstrap of the project. I hope we will keep in touch anyway, in case i would need your and Neo's team assistance during the implementation of the .NET solution. Cheers! Antonello On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Emil Eifrem <e...@neotechnology.com> wrote: > On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 03:55, Antonello Provenzano <antone...@deveel.com> > wrote: >> I've found that neo4j would be perfect for my scope: unfortunately, it >> is purely written in Java code and it's not portable to .NET, because >> of the massive differences between the two architectures. >> >> Can you tell me if is it there any language binding or any port of >> neo4j for .NET/Mono? > > Hi Antonello, > > There's no port and no language binding at the time. I agree with you > that porting Neo4j to .NET would probably be require a substantial > investment, although I'm certainly no expert at .NET. > > As for bindings, I don't know how hard that would be. Neo4j currently > has bindings for a number of languages (Python, Jython, Ruby, Clojure) > and sometimes they've been fairly easy to roll. The conceptual > impedance between Java and C# is certainly close to zero, so maybe > adding .NET bindings is not that hard. You're certainly welcome to > give it a shot! > > Another thought: Would it work if you implemented your graph algos in > Java using Neo4j, then wrapped them in a thin REST layer and used that > as a backend to the rest of your app written in .NET? > > Cheers, > > -- > Emil Eifrém, CEO [e...@neotechnology.com] > Neo Technology, www.neotechnology.com > Cell: +46 733 462 271 | US: 206 403 8808 > http://twitter.com/emileifrem > _______________________________________________ > Neo mailing list > User@lists.neo4j.org > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > _______________________________________________ Neo mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
