use .NET as a substitute for perl/java/CGI?

Do you guys know if there is anyway we could use .NET as a substitute for the perl and java we use in external workflow and CGI calls to the DB?

apparently our .Net team was told during the sales pitch that TeamSite integrated w/ .net or whatever we wanted to. we are able to call .net applications w/ callservers but i think they wanted to be able to actually do the above

im 99% sure this isnt possible and the languages are Java, JSP, Perl, CGI, C++, JavaScript, HTML

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nipper

That is what you get for listening to a sales team.

OK, you can proabably use DotNet for CGITasks without too much trouble. ExternalTasks would either need to be converted to CGI's or use a wrapper to execute them.

What are the CGI's going to the DB ? From a WF ? Template ? menu item ?

Migrateduser

yeah sales teams r evil - and it was b4 i started so u can see im in an interesting predicament Smiley Happy

we have CGIs going to the db from both the templates and workflows. we have all kinds of pre/post processor *.ipls in our workflows for filelists/autoattachments/etc

alot of our email tasks were setup by contractors to use custom java code to build the emails/notifications/filelists/etc

nipper

OK so you probably can. Is it worth it ? Doubtful. WIll it be easy ? No. There will be a lot of rewriting of good working code to do it. Sounds like it is time to bring in an overpriced consultant. Smiley Very Happy

civ3

yeah sales teams r evil - and it was b4 i started so u can see im in an interesting predicament

we have CGIs going to the db from both the templates and workflows. we have all kinds of pre/post processor *.ipls in our workflows for filelists/autoattachments/etc

alot of our email tasks were setup by contractors to use custom java code to build the emails/notifications/filelists/etc

You didn't mention the platform used in your environment. If it is Windows, it might be possible to do that by using a combination of IIS, Windows Script Host and any .NET language to do external WF tasks and CGIs. However I haven't tried this way myself.

Cheers,
civ3.

Migrateduser

good feedback guys - thanks - there is a big .net push here so maybe ill start off w/ something simple and go from there

the perl/java just makes ppl cringe here Smiley Happy

(yes we are on windows 2003 servers)

Migrateduser

Doesn't .NET implies that you would be on a Windows system?

There are some examples of using C# with the with TeamSite, but it is few and far between. You could use C# with external task, but I am not sure about url external task. Perhaps you can if you specify the correct package name in the ClassName variable on the url external task. For external task, you can specify the name of the command, eg:
c:\iw-home\custom\bin\filename.exe
where filename.exe is your compiled c# program. But you'll need to get your own workflow id, task id, task comments, etc.... As far as I know, I didn't see any api's for c#....

apu808

I am glad I am not the only one who cringes at PERL/CGI!!