Access SharePoint using Java

Accessing SharePoint using Java is possible through web services, and Matt is going through this journey by using web services of lists and views. But why? Why don't he just use Visual Studio and push the information for whatever platform needs it? Because he can and that is his requirement. I'm just being me as I never liked Java and I don't see that changing in the future.

Anyways, Matt said that he would be updating his readers on his journey of using Java to access SharePoint. Follow him here. His post on this topic is found here.

1. Matthew Harrah, November 8, 2008 at 9:03 pm

   Why? Excellent question, and you won’t like the answer much more than me.

   From a technical standpoint, you’re right – VS would be much easier. However, at my employer we have an architecture to fit into, and this is one of those corner cases where the architecture doesn’t fit as nicely as others. In this architecture, our public web site in the DMZ is only allowed to talk to the trusted network via web services running on a JBoss server farm. This means that for us to access or manipulate data in SharePoint on the web site, we must do it via Java. Sigh.

   The real world and the easiest technical solutions rarely coincide in my experience.

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