ABOUT THE SPEAKER Alex Onik is a Microsoft development and platform advisor for Independent Software Vendors. He has over 12 years of experience as a software engineer developing solutions across Microsoft, Unix, and Mainframe platforms. His focus is on distributed architectures and .NET to J2EE interoperability. SESSION DESCRIPTION NET and J2EE are two technical visions for the enterprise. While J2EE is a specification, .NET is a product. What are the approaches for integrating these two fundamentally different frameworks? This session will cover different options including Web Services, RMI and/or .NET remoting, and some third-party solutions. The session will also briefly cover some design and architecture patterns that may help us with integration.