FOCAL POINT:The decision to select .Net or Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) is easy - both should be supported unless the IT organization (ITO) can standardize on Microsoft (MSFT). Because only the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sinclair Schuller is the co-founder and CEO of Apprenda. When was the last time you thought of David Hasselhoff? Hard to remember, right? It’s odd to think that “The Hoff” was the once chisel-jawed, ...

The .NET ecosystem is affected by a similar flaw that has wreaked havoc among Java apps and developers in 2016. The flaw is in how .NET coding libraries handle deserialization operations, leading to ...

With highly expressive syntax that is easy to read, write, and maintain, dynamic programming languages like Python and Ruby are extremely conducive to rapid development. Microsoft and Sun Microsystems ...

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 ...

Microsoft’s open-sourcing of server-side .Net technologies is a big step for the longtime king of proprietary desktop software. But the move itself is of limited impact, and .Net has a long way to go ...