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 ...

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 ...

Both major platforms push Web services as a means of integrating applications across platforms. Check out another alternative that tightly integrates Microsoft code with Java apps. Given the potential ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Ruby programming language is impacted by a similar "deserialization issue" that has affected and wreaked havoc in the Java ecosystem in 2016; an issue that later also proved to be a problem for ...