FOCAL POINT:The decision to select .Net or Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) is easy - both should be supported unless the IT organization (ITO) can standardize on Microsoft (MSFT). Because only the ...

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 ...

COMMENTARY--I used to collect comic books (or, read a heck of a lot of them and refused to throw them away, depending on how you look at it). That's impossible, you're saying. Programmers are serious ...

When Forrester Research Inc. surveyed platform software decision makers in large North American and European enterprises recently, the IT industry analyst firm found that 59 percent of those surveyed ...

Microsoft's .Net vision has given the company a direction in which to focus its efforts at driving the future of software development and deployment. .Net, along with XML, has made the confrontation ...

.NET (pronounced “dot net” and sometimes written as .Net) is an open source development platform consisting of a software development framework and an accompanying ecosystem of tools, languages, and ...

There's very little (it seems to me) available in the Java framework that doesn't have at least a close match in the .Net camp. But .Net uses enums, delegates, field accessors, indexers, and other ...

Microsoft announced the 2.0 release of the Java Language Conversion Assistant (JLCA), a tool designed to provide Java developers with a smooth transition to Web services and Web- and Windows-based ...

Java/.NET interoperability solutions provider JNBridge is jumping deep into the cloud with a major update of its flagship toolset. The Boulder, Colo.-based maker of tools that connect Java and .NET ...

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