The bridge is known as the Restlet Extension for ADO.Net Services and is featured as part of Noelios's Restlet 2.0 M5 open source framework. The bridge  leverages Microsoft's ADO.Net Data Services, for building and consuming data services from the Web.

"It's really a simple way to connect a Java application to a .Net application," using REST technologies, said Jean-Christophe Cimetiere, senior technical evangelist at Microsoft, in an interview.

"For those who are relatively new to ADO.NET Data Services, it is a set of recently added .Net Framework features that provides a simple way to expose a wide range of data sources such as relational databases, XML files, and so on through a RESTful service interface," Cimitiere explained in a . Microsoft Service Pack 1 and the planned Visual Studio 2010 software development platform support ADO.Net Data Services.

"So far, beside client toolkits for Microsoft technologies such as .Net and Silverlight, only the PHP language had an to interact with those services. Today, with the , we are proud to announce a similar offer for Java developers, cleanly leveraging the Restlet Framework," said Jerome Louvel, of Noelios, . The technology is accessible at