COMMENTARY--Even as the battle between Microsoft and Sun Microsystems for developer mindshare goes into full swing, the line between competing development platforms is already starting to blur. That's ...

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 ...

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 ...

COMMENTARY--I used to collect comic books (or, read a heck of a lot of them and refused to throw them away, depending on how you look at it). That's impossible, you're saying. Programmers are serious ...

Hackers love new platforms and programming languages. Some developers will always argue that the world is full of enough languages already. Nonetheless, from Ruby to Groovy to Scala, to less mature ...

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 ...

Java is the underlying code for the Android OS. But one company has changed all that, ripping out most of the Java and replacing it with C#. That means .NET developers can code in a familiar language ...

Microsoft has released a new programming tool aimed at attracting Java developers to its .Net software strategy. At its Tech Ed 2002 Europe developer conference Monday, Microsoft released the final ...

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) ...