The disputes between Microsoft and Sun Microsystems are famous. These led to the dismissal of Java from the Microsoft platform (but you can still install it as an add-on) and Microsoft dumping its ...

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 ...

You can develop .Net software in Java with IKVM tools by creating jar files with the ikvmstub program, providing Java programming interface calls into .Net libraries, compiling your Java program ...

When I first heard about Mainsoft’s Visual MainWin for J2EE, I thought the concept was a harebrained idea. Just skimming some of the product’s help topics sent me reeling: “Developing ASP .Net ...

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 ...

When it comes to integrating .NET and Java code infrastructures, developers working with .NET Framework 3.0 can turn to Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) ...

Two paths are available for migrating Java applications to .Net: upgrade them to Visual J# .Net or convert them to Visual C# .Net. Upgrading Java applications to J# is the quickest and easiest way to ...

Web sites featuring resources for developers on the Java and .Net platforms are being unveiled Tuesday in separate announcements. On the Java side, Sun will announce a consolidation of the multitude ...

After describing Java as a stable technology with no great surprises likely to come, Java experts during a conference panel session fielded questions about the competitive power of Microsoft’s rival ...