Speaking during a session Saturday at TheServerSide Java Symposium here, panelists acknowledged the vitality of Microsoft .Net development technology but defended their prized Java platform.

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.

best-of-breed integrated development environment --convergence work done using VS.Net clearly favors Microsoft. * Java developers will be immediately productive in the .Net environment.

Speaking at the OMG Integrate.2000 conference, Microsoft’s Dave Wright, .Net Solutions architect in San Francisco and a former Java programmer, said Java is a “wonderful language” but has ...

"Java is largely an open source-driven world ... Foundation under the Open Specification Promise; and the release of the .NET Framework source code to Visual Studio (VS) customers. Another result of ...

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 ...

As the Sun vs. Microsoft battle over Java drags ... you could do more with it." Visual Studio .Net testers did note that, unlike Java, C# is not cross-platform, and currently supports the ...

As a .NET developer, it can be hard to figure out the Java dependencies when selecting classes. With a basic knowledge of the standalone utility, the VS 2008 plug-in made more sense. Installing the ...

Fans of Apple's Swift language can now use their newly developed skills to write software for systems supporting both .NET and Java, including Android. The Silver compiler, currently in beta ...

"Java is largely an open source-driven world ... Foundation under the Open Specification Promise; and the release of the .NET Framework source code to Visual Studio (VS) customers. Another result of ...