Comments on: Access SharePoint using Java http://www.techticles.com/access-sharepoint-using-java.page Digital Collaboration / Social Computing guide, a SharePoint Architect's view Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:51:19 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Matthew Harrah http://www.techticles.com/access-sharepoint-using-java.page/comment-page-1#comment-9373 Matthew Harrah Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:03:14 +0000 http://www.techticles.com/access-sharepoint-using-java.page#comment-9373 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. 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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