Not to mention that .NET support for other languages is in its early stages.
Further, "efforts underway" is just another word for vaporware.
Anyway, since JDK 1.3+ supports IIOP out of the box, you can use CORBA to
communicate from any non-Java app to Java and vice-versa. With the
burgeoning support for SOAP and Web Services in the Java world you can use
SOAP to communicate from Java to anything and vice-versa. And you've been
able to use JNI for a long time to do things like load and use native
libraries in Java, and vice-versa.
.NET is cool, but so is Java. So I think the question of MS vs. Java today
comes down to things like "What can I do today with this technology?" "What
are the existing skill sets I have or my team members have?" (check out some
of the .NET docs -- it is as much of an involved and technically challenging
platform as J2EE) "What platforms do I want to run on?" etc. For some
people and projects, VB or C# is probably perfect. For others, there's no
better choice than Java.
Scott Stirling
JRun QA
Macromedia
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Groeneveld [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 11:01 AM
> To: JRun-Talk
> Subject: Re: Newbie question/Debate
>
>
> Bear in mind that's it's not so 1-2-3 as you make it sound. It is my
> understanding from the developer of the cobol .net compiler
> for hitachi
> that you must code in a proper subset of the language. I
> think that if
> you want to use .net you are best coding in its native
> language c#. BenG.
>
> James Alexander wrote:
>
> > Umm....thats not quite correct. With .NET I can use any
> language I want,
> > as long as it has a MSIL compiler. If I want to use Java, I can use
> > Java. If I want to write an entire asp.net web app in C++ I
> can. Am I
> > locked in if I choose to use C++? I can use any language I
> want. On top
> > of that there are efforts underway for porting the .NET CLR (common
> > language runtime) to other platforms for true platform independence.
> > Pretty groovy huh? :)
> >
> > james
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