Two paths are available for migrating Java applications to .Net: upgrade them to Visual J# .Net or convert them to Visual C# .Net. Upgrading Java applications to J# is the quickest and easiest way to ...

You’d have to be living in a vacuum not to be aware of the debate that rages between proponents of the two dominant development platform contenders: Java 2 Enterprise Edition and .Net. Many articles ...

For many corporations, today’s heterogeneous software environments require interoperability between platforms that extends beyond the loose coupling provided by Web services. As an alternative, CORBA ...

Java creator James Gosling this week called Microsoft’s decision to support C and C++ on the Common Language Runtime (CLR) in .NET one of the “biggest and most offensive mistakes that they could have ...

A new tool from Beelucid Software LLC is aimed at dev shops working with both Visual Basic.NET 2003 and Java. VBeeJava is a source language translator that developers can use to port VB.NET syntax and ...

Interoperability is one of the main promises of Web services. Web services are designed to be independent of the underlying operating system and programming language. In this article we will introduce ...

Note: This article is excerpted from Chapter 7, "Creating a Shared Database," of Microsoft .NET and J2EE Interoperability Toolkit [Microsoft Press, 2003, ISBN: 0735619220]. It has been edited for ...

Java creator James Gosling this week called Microsoft's decision to support C and C++ in the common language runtime in .NET one of the "biggest and most offensive mistakes that they could have made".