# Wowza C# interop!

**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-c-interop/36431
**Category:** Wowza Developer Dojo
**Tags:** wowza-streaming-server-java-api
**Created:** [April 23, 2011, 3:06pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-c-interop/36431 "2011-04-23T15:06:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Janez\_Makovsek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ed655f/32.png) [@Janez\_Makovsek](https://community.wowza.com/u/Janez_Makovsek)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2011, 3:06pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-c-interop/36431/1 "2011-04-23T15:06:36Z")

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Hi!

I would like call certain Wowza functions from C#. I never used Java before and would appreciate some pointers on what path to choose to achieve this. I have seen that there is a generic ActiveX (COM) wrapper for Java, but in this case I need to access a running instance of the Wowza server to communicate information. I could write a TCP/IP based protocol I guess if everything else fails, but a working COM would be very nice.

Thanks!

Atmapuri

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### Author: ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2011, 2:15pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-c-interop/36431/2 "2011-04-23T14:15:39Z")

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Your options for interacting with Wowza from [asp.net](http://asp.net) server is HTTProvider or web service:

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/http-providers](https://www.wowza.com/docs/http-providers)

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-add-a-web-service-interface-to-wowza-media-server-and-integrate-with-net-dotnet](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-add-a-web-service-interface-to-wowza-media-server-and-integrate-with-net-dotnet))

Or wrapping JMX command line interface:

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-set-up-a-command-line-interface-to-wowza-api-to-start-stop-vhost-using-jmx](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-set-up-a-command-line-interface-to-wowza-api-to-start-stop-vhost-using-jmx)

Richard

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### Author: ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-c-interop/36431/3 "2011-04-23T16:19:30Z")

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Atmapuri,

That’s all I know of.

Richard

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### Author: ![Janez\_Makovsek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ed655f/32.png) [@Janez\_Makovsek](https://community.wowza.com/u/Janez_Makovsek)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-c-interop/36431/4 "2011-04-23T16:49:55Z")

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Dear Richard,

Thanks for links. I have a windows service application which does a lot stuff and would

also need to talk to Wowza. What you suggest:

a.) Using command line interface (JMX), requires ackward parsing of results.

(well, Ok, depends on what you print out).

b.) Using HTTP requires quite a lot of work to implement multiple commands

and responses.

both are less than stellar approaches. This is all there is available??

Thanks!

Atmapuri