Chapter 9 * project ideas * and further research needed

Chapter 9 was interesting. It went into detail on how to pull in data from rss feeds to represent xml data. Then it showed a quick overview of xml and described, briefly, how xml works. Then i saw how to create some xml, its looks alot like html, and how to modify the xml data and turn it into html.

It then went into showing you how to incorporate webservices into your system. You can program your own web services and host them. Or you can call other web services so long as you have access to them. I think this is very cool especially having just finished the BPMN class that was all about service oriented architecture. Microsoft has its WCF, windows communication foundation, which itself is a service, which is a service that handles connecting to services. Its pretty cool, kinda like linq.

I now have some questions. I want to be able to do asp.net with java, I think i can hax my program to make it possible, i don't see why I shouldn't be able to. It uses html, so I should be able to javascript and have java files that my stuff can use for calling objects. If it can't do it inherently, I should be able to hax it just like I did with the ajax controls. That means bring in third party controls to make it doable. This way I can program in Netbeans, import those java files and use them in my .net applications. I will have to research this a bit.

I also don't see how I can take an excel spreadsheet, parse the information via linq, and then save that data as a new entry into a database. I may have to custom code that, but it seems that it should be a function of LINQ. If not I can just parse the data by fields, create an empty database with the tables set up to handle the data then create a few functions to fill in each column at a time based on the data in the array that LINQ creates.... Maybe. I think that will be part of my project.