Free Your C# Apps from .NET Platforms

ainsoft's Visual MainWin is a revolutionary product that allows you to develop applications in C# and deploy and run them on J2EE application servers (for a detailed review, click here). Using this flexiblity, in conjunction with the simplicity of Web services development provided by Visual Studio.NET, you can finally create applications and Web services that run on platforms other than IIS and .NET.

Getting Started
If you don't have a copy of the application, you can register for a 30-day evaluation copy from Mainsoft. To understand and follow the rest of this article, you will need a copy of Visual Studio.NET 2003 and a copy of Visual MainWin installed and running. Note that when you are installing Visual MainWin, please select the 'Bundled Tomcat 5.0' application server. If you are more comfortable working in BEA Weblogic 8.1 or IBM Websphere 5, you can also use these with MainWin—simply select them when you install. Some of the URL references in the article will be different if you are using one of these products (for example: Weblogic runs on port 7001, so references in this article to port 8080 should be changed to 7001).