A colleague recently asked me if I knew anything about consuming OData from a Java deployment in Windows Azure. My answer at the time was “no”, but with a quick pointer to http://code.google.com/p/odata4j/ I know the answer would soon change to “yes”. In this short post, I’ll show you how I used this tutorial, Deploying a Java Application to Windows Azure with Command-line Ant , to quickly comsume OData from Java running in Windows Azure. Note : This post is not an investigation of the odata4j API. It is simply a look at how to deploy odata4j to Windows Azure. However, I will note that I didn’t see any functionality in the odata4j API for generating classes from an OData feed (unlike the OData SDK for PHP Read More...

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