Datatype support

EAServer 6.1 supports marshalling for the following datatypes in .NET clients. Marshalling is supported for data passed either by reference or by value.

Datatype
boolean
byte
int
string
Array (one, two, or three dimensional)
Exception
Object Reference
Structure
Union

Table 1 describes the datatype mappings between IDL, Java, and C#.

**Table 1: Datatype mappings**
IDL datatype	Java datatype	C# datatype
boolean	boolean	System.Boolean
char	char	System.Char
octet	byte	System.Byte
short	short	System.Int16
long	int	System.Int32
long long	long	System.Int64
float	float	System.Single
double	double	System.Double
string	String	System.String
BCD::Binary	byte	System.Byte[]
BCD::Decimal	java.math.BigDecimal	System.Decimal
BCD::Money	java.math.BigDecimal	System.Decimal
MJD::Date	java.util.Calendar	System.DateTime
MJD::Time	java.util.Calendar	System.DateTime
MJD::Timestamp	java.util.Calendar	System.DateTime
TabularResults::ResultSet	java.sql.ResultSet	System.Data.DataTable
TabularResults::ResultSets	java.sql.ResultSet[]	System.Data.DataTable[]
MyModule::MyException	MyModule.ejb.MyException	MyModule.ejb.MyException
MyModule::MyComp	MyModule.ejb.MyComp	MyModule.ejb.MyComp
MyModule::MyStruct	MyModule.ejb.MyStruct	MyModule.ejb.MyStruct
MyModule::MyUnion	MyModule.ejb.UnionName	MyModule.ejb.UnionName
MyModule::MySequence	MyModule.ejb.MyElement[]	MyModule.ejb.MyElement[]