Review: Write C# and Run on J2EE? Believe It with Visual MainWin
If you're a mixed-platform shop and you've ever wished you could leverage the ease of development in Visual Studio to create J2EE apps, it might be your lucky day. With this product, you can compile C# or VB.NET from VS.NET into java bytecode and run it on J2EE.
by Laurence Moroney
March 10, 2004
hen it comes to app server platforms, people can—and do—debate endlessly about which is the best for running enterprise-class applications. Is it the Microsoft .NET platform? Or one of many application servers that implement the J2EE specification, such as BEA WebLogic 8.1? Each camp has unique advantages, but, as run-time platforms, features and performance are only part of the picture. To make a wise, strategic decision, a software team needs to consider other factors as well.
Chief among these is ease of development and deployment. Microsoft has always dominated this category; Visual Studio and Visual Studio.NET are widely used tools—and with good reason. They provide a very low learning curve and brilliantly abstract away the complexities of deployment and debugging. With Visual Studio even junior developers can start building enterprise-class applications without fretting over infrastructure issues.
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Laurence Moroney is a senior architect in a major financial services house in New York city. He has written software in many fields, from casino management to enterprise chat systems. He is the co-author of a forthcoming book on Web Services security.
hen it comes to app server platforms, people can—and do—debate endlessly about which is the best for running enterprise-class applications. Is it the Microsoft .NET platform? Or one of many application servers that implement the J2EE specification, such as BEA WebLogic 8.1? Each camp has unique advantages, but, as run-time platforms, features and performance are only part of the picture. To make a wise, strategic decision, a software team needs to consider other factors as well.
Laurence Moroney is a senior architect in a major financial services house in New York city. He has written software in many fields, from casino management to enterprise chat systems. He is the co-author of a forthcoming book on Web Services security.
