Re: Visual J# and database programming

From: Bjorn Abelli (DoNotSpam.bjorn_abelli_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/12/03 

Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 17:24:14 +0100

"Joona I Palaste" ...
> Andrew Thompson scribbled the following:
> > "sasquatch" wrote ...

> >> Is there a way to get Visual J# to use
> >> Sun's VM and not Microsofts?
>
> > Straight from the horses mouth..
> >
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vjsharp/using/techinfo/programming/default.aspx
> > "Microsoft Visual J# .NET is not a tool for developing
> > applications intended to run on a Java Virtual Machine."

> Search www.microsoft.com for "linux" and you get a link to a case study
> comparing two HTTP servers: Microsoft IIS and Apache. It says that IIS
> supports Java *better* than Apache... I wonder if people at Microsoft
> talk to each other?

Hey! You're talking past each other!

Java is one language. Mostly it's compiled into Java bytecode that can run
on a Java Virtual Machine or compatible.

J# is *another* language, but with Java-syntax to such extent that most
Java-code for version 1.1.4 and earlier can compile without any problem as
J#-code. The only J#-compiler I know of generates MSIL-code (Microsoft
Intermediate Language) for the Virtual Machine in the .NET-platform (CLR -
Common Language Runtime).

Since Microsoft decided not to further develop J++ (because of the
lawsuits...), they created this "new" language, J#, to facilitate an easier
transition into the .NET-world for those who came from J++ or Java.

The CLR and the JVM are two completely different Virtual Machines.

MSIL-code generated from J# cannot run on Sun's JVM.

So J# has nothing to do with whether IIS or Apache has "the best support for
Java". That's another cup of coffee... ;-)

// Bjorn A

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