Alexander R. Krapf
Krapf has over 15 years experience in software engineering, product development, and project management in the United States and Europe. In addition to founding and managing CodeMesh, Krapf has worked for IBM, Thomson Financial Services, Hitachi, Veeder-Root, and Document Directions, Inc. He has been extensively involved in a variety of complex product development efforts using his in-depth understanding of .NET, C++ and Java. Krapf has been published in technology journals and been a speaker at a variety of industry conferences. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, and can be reached at alex@codemesh.com.

By Alexander R. Krapf
Anyone who regularly works with more than one development language and a third-party library has faced the situation described by: 'Great library, if only I could have it in my programming language.' Some vendors make a living from publishing different language versions of their produc...
Jan. 5, 2005 12:00 AM  Reads: 15,632
By Alexander R. Krapf
If you have never had to integrate Java with code written in other languages, you are a very lucky person. Java is a wonderful language when you are looking for platform portability, but unless you are a big CORBA fan, code written in Java is hard to use from all other programming lang...
Feb. 13, 2004 12:00 AM  Reads: 12,578