.NET vs Java on the enterprise
[I know the title sucks, but it's a little hard to synthesize this into a better title :-)]
On this post, sam states at a certain point:
" Gosh, we were doing this in Windows DNA with COM+. So why isn't it being done in .NET systems today? Sure, it's going on but you would never know it from any .NET books, blogs, conferences (virtually nothing on ES) out there. In sharp contrast, the Java community gets it. They tend to think enterprise. The Java developers tend to know how to build distributed applications that scale. "
it seems to me that mainsoft thinks this too and sees it as an opportunity. It is launching a tool, that allows you to run .Net applications inside a J2EE server. They have a flash demo, from what i've seen their pitch seems to be, design your backend on J2EE, and your front end on .NET.
Apparently they have a compiler that transforms MSIL into Java Byte code, and have some neat integration running inside visual studio (debugging included).
Didn't really understood if IIS is totally bypassed or it is still used for ASPX serving.
Oh well, not planning on trying it, just passing the information, someone might find it interesting.