Question

My team maintains/develops several custom .NET and Java applications. Most of these applications need to send occasional operational notifications (usually as email routed through our company’s Exchange server) but each application has its own implementation. It seems to make that it would make more sense to have a service dedicated to this functionality that is consumable by all of our custom apps (and any future ones we might build) so as to reduce the number of points of failure if nothing else. I’d love to hear suggestions on any off the shelf products that facilitate this need as well as any homegrown solutions you may have used.

Thanks in advance!

Patrick

Answer 1

Why would you need a commercial product?

1. Write a web service in your favorite language
2. Create Java and .NET clients by importing the WSDL

EDIT: I’d stick to primitive types for service parameters. All the service has to do is send mail.