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 ...

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 ...

Security exploits and vulnerabilities are often causes of huge financial loss and disruption of business services. The Computer Security Institute has reported a worldwide financial loss of circa 30 ...

Microsoft is boasting that it has surpassed Java usage with .Net and is preparing to make its application development platform more conducive to Web services. In a speech at the VSLive conference in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Who's ahead: Microsoft Corp.'s .NET or Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE)? Five years in and counting, the battle still rages with no clear victor. However, according ...

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 ...

Java does have the additional wrinkle that is how a java process gets the relevant runtime to start with. This is left to the 'runner' of the app, in effect the end user, most of the time rather than ...

A little apparent snafu at MS has revealed a beta for some comers of the next generation of Visual J++.<P>From a post to the dotnet mailing list:<P><BLOCKQUOTE><font ...