Running .Net code on a JVM?
June 8, 2008
I just stumbled on this article Sunday morning. This snippet sums up the product:
There is a way of marrying the advantages of .NET development with Java deployment. Using Mainsoft for Enterprise Edition (EE), Visual Studio developers can write code in .NET and cross-compile it to Java. Not only code, but pieces of the Framework; Mainsoft has worked with Miguel de Icaza and Novell to port pieces of the Mono project to Java. Your limits in calling Framework classes, especially for Web apps, are almost nonexistent.
Sounds very intriguing. But, is it just a solution in search of a problem? Would many .Net shops embrace a Java app server for deployment? Is this too niche of a product to take off beyond a few edge cases? Or is this sort of thing the future?
What would, I think, be more useful for many shops is to take Java code and compile it in to something that targetted the .Net CLR. Are there any projects that do this/
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