posted on Sunday, June 06, 2004 3:27 PM by demiliani

Visual MainWin® for the J2EETM platform

My eyes has just see this news: Mainsoft has created Visual MainWin® for the J2EETM platform, that integrates with (and requires) Microsoft Visual Studio.Net, and allows developers using Visual Basic .NET or C#, as well as ASP.NET and ADO.NET class libraries, to create, deploy, and debug applications on J2EE application servers, including IBM WebSphere 5.1, BEA WebLogic 8.1 and Tomcat 5.0. Java classes and components, such as Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) can be imported into Visual Studio and used in applications written in Visual Basic .Net or C#.

Visual MainWin is a complete development solution for J2EE that includes

  • A development environment integrated into Visual Studio .NET that can be used to develop, deploy and debugJ2EE applications
  • A set of Java runtime libraries that enable applications developed in Visual Basic .NET and C# to run on a J2EE application server

Visual MainWin introduces a patent-pending compiler that compiles Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) into standard Java Bytecode. Developers can write programs in either Visual Basic .NET or C# and compile their source code directly into standard Java Bytecode.



A wonderful idea... a useful tool for a lot of software developers and organizations. Why MS don't start thinking on something like that for the next release of Visual Studio?

Visual MainWin for J2EE Enterprise Features:
Productivity features
    

Support Visual Basic .NET and ECMA-compliant C#

    Drag-and-drop programming
    Integrated dynamic help
Runtime libraries
    

ASP.NET - Web applications

    ASP.NET - Web services
    ADO.NET - Connected and disconnected mode
Import Java Components
    Add references to Enterprise JavaBeans and third party Java classes
    Direct access to all the JDK 1.4 classes from C# and Visual Basic.NET
Web Services
    Add references to Web services
    Deploy Web services as Enterprise JavaBeans
Deployment on J2EE Application Servers
    Produce standard J2EE WAR files
    Deploy projects on J2EE application servers automatically
    Support BEA WebLogic® 8.1, IBM WebSphere® 5.1, Tomcat® 5
Integrated Debugger
    Preserve Visual Studio debugging experience
    Debug across multiple languages: Visual Basic .NET, C# and Java
    Sophisticated multi-lingual expression evaluator
Compliancy with Java Standards
    Generated Java bytecode is fully compatible with Java 1.3 and 1.4 specifications.

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