if you were one of the 14,000 developers walking the aisles of the javaone worldwide developers conference in san francisco in june, you likely picked up the buzz that surrounded the issues and opportunities presented by the recent agreement between microsoft and sun, and the settling of their outstanding litigation while pledging to work together to provide better support and platform interfaces for each others technologies.
customers likely had their say in the matter. it all boils down to the fact that java is here to stay at the enterprise - "rip up and replace" hasnt gone over very well since the tech sector meltdown. yet .net is making steady inroads into the very same organizations that develop, deploy, and run java applications - client and server apps alike.
there are a whole host of good reasons for mixing and matching platforms. a simple example is the development of a front-end gui using visual studio/.net to create an app with the familiar look and feel of microsoft windows/office that links to a java enterprise app in the back office, and which can be developed quickly with minimal technical effort. as microsofts server-based ... 下一页