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 ...

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 ...

For many corporations, today’s heterogeneous software environments require interoperability between platforms that extends beyond the loose coupling provided by Web services. As an alternative, CORBA ...

You’d have to be living in a vacuum not to be aware of the debate that rages between proponents of the two dominant development platform contenders: Java 2 Enterprise Edition and .Net. Many articles ...

To Create Mobile Handset And PDA Applications, Developers Need To Know The Pros And Cons Of J2ME, BREW, And .Net Software designers have to make tough decisions when they select development ...

Security exploits and vulnerabilities are often causes of huge financial loss and disruption of business services. The Computer Security Institute has reported a worldwide financial loss of circa 30 ...

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There's very little (it seems to me) available in the Java framework that doesn't have at least a close match in the .Net camp. But .Net uses enums, delegates, field accessors, indexers, and other ...

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 ...

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