A while back, we had an idea to build a semi-automated Java->C# translation tool to assist with the porting process. The idea was that an automated process would probably never fully be able to translate something as intricate as Lucene, and even if it could, it probably wouldn't be very idiomatic... but it could be used to do some of the heavy lifting, making it easier to keep up with Java Lucene.
At the time there weren't very good tools for this, and the idea sort of fizzled. We have a lot of find/replace macros that we all use for this work, but not a proper tool. I just heard about JUniversal, which attempts to do exactly this: http://juniversal.org/ It's meant for Android developers who want to target Windows Mobile phones, and keep a single codebase... but I think it might work for our use case as well. Anyone want to explore this tool and see what it can do for us? Thanks, Troy
