Hessian on Windows Phone 7/ Silverlight?

Question

I'm using hessian protocol for communication betwee server (java) and various client applications. Now I started to develop Windows Phone 7 client. I downloaded hessian C# implementation but it does not compile for windows phone 7/silverlight.

Does anyone managed to make it work on WP7/Silverlight? It's looks like there is many thing to be done/changed to make it work, which I'd like to avoid if it has been done by someone already.

Thanks.

Answer 1

So answer is you have to rewrite hessian C# implementation as Silverlight 4 doesn't have lot of stuff from .net mobile framework, mainly Proxy class.

Answer 2

What is it that does not compile? I'm guessing that the implementation is probably using sockets. Please keep in mind that Silverlight (and thus, wp7) limits the kinds of network connections you can open ... preferring asynchronous web requests (via the WebRequest class) or WCF services.

Chances are the code you downloaded is having problems with the compact framework version of the network classes available on the phone/silverlight. See this msdn article for more information about the socket support:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc296248%28VS.95%29.aspx

If you want to communicate directly between the phone and a server running the hessian protocol the easiest way will probably be to proxy communication via a wcf service running on an asp.net server.