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 ...

Hackers love new platforms and programming languages. Some developers will always argue that the world is full of enough languages already. Nonetheless, from Ruby to Groovy to Scala, to less mature ...

Microsoft has released a new programming tool aimed at attracting Java developers to its .Net software strategy. At its Tech Ed 2002 Europe developer conference Monday, Microsoft released the final ...

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 ...

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 ...

Java/.NET interoperability solutions provider JNBridge has released version 10 of its flagship JNBridgePro tool, the first version to support Java interoperability with both the .NET Framework and the ...

With Microsoft throwing its formidable weight behind .NET services, there is little doubt that people will begin using it. But this will not make Java go away. Like the hardy mainframe, which not only ...