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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Java developers need an accepted communication ... The new environment comprises the Smart Device Extensions (SDE) for Visual Studio .Net (VS.Net) and the .Net Compact Framework (CFW).

"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 ...

"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 ...