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I fail to see why I would ever use it?

Both Java & .NET are available on the Windows platform - why would I use a runtime that is very likely to be incomplete? Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Matzon) Comments RE: Whats the point http://www.osnews.com/thread?340762 http://www.osnews.com/thread?340762 IL interop is top knotch, so if you want to use a java library in your .net code, this would be a great way to do it. Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (google_ninja) Comments IKVM http://www.osnews.com/thread?340763 http://www.osnews.com/thread?340763 This sounds similar to IKVM, which has been around for years...

http://www.ikvm.net/ Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Delgarde) Comments Shouldn't It Be The Other Way Around? http://www.osnews.com/thread?340764 http://www.osnews.com/thread?340764 I'd rather .NET running under Java - while Java is available everywhere, .NET isn't, at least, not really.

It would be great to have the opposite wrapper allowing one to easily run .NET apps anywhere Java will run. Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Dolphin) Comments RE: Shouldn't It Be The Other Way Around? http://www.osnews.com/thread?340766 http://www.osnews.com/thread?340766
I'd rather .NET running under Java - while Java is available everywhere, .NET isn't, at least, not really.


It's not free, but a company called Mainsoft make a product that might be what you're looking for.

http://mainsoft.com/products/vmw_j2ee.aspx Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Delgarde) Comments Layer over Layer http://www.osnews.com/thread?340767 http://www.osnews.com/thread?340767 It reminds me all stuffs like ADO over DAO, DAO over ADO, OLE DB over DAO, ... Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (middleware) Comments RE: IKVM http://www.osnews.com/thread?340770 http://www.osnews.com/thread?340770 IKVM is a Java virtual machine on top of .NET (I mean, implemented using C# instead of C++, for example).

AFAIK, Ja.NET is a java compiler that generates IL instead of bytecodes.Edited 2008-12-19 02:12 UTC Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ebasconp) Comments Marketshare http://www.osnews.com/thread?340771 http://www.osnews.com/thread?340771 Why not implementing a C# compiler that generates bytecodes instead of IL or a CLR implemented in Java instead of the inverse?

Though the idea seems to be amazing and very interesting, I think it shows where the balance is getting biased... Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ebasconp) Comments RE[2]: IKVM http://www.osnews.com/thread?340773 http://www.osnews.com/thread?340773 Ah, yes - I missed that part. I wonder... Java has the ability to invoke the compiler from code... I wonder if that generates JVM or IL bytecode.. Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Delgarde) Comments RE: Marketshare http://www.osnews.com/thread?340781 http://www.osnews.com/thread?340781 The "reverse" already exists - Jacil (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jacil).

Also these days .NET is part of Windows, while the JRE is an addon - someone distributing Java applications might want to distribute native looking .EXEs to Windows users instead of requiring an additional download.

Recent versions of Java only support Windows >= 2000. .NET supports some older versions of Windows so it could a useful way to port Java software to unsupported versions of Windows. Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (draethus) Comments RE: Whats the point http://www.osnews.com/thread?340968 http://www.osnews.com/thread?340968
Cool, but whats the point? I fail to see why I would ever use it?


Because a big part of why .NET is used in the first place is that it can run code written just about every language.

Of all the languages I know, the only one that doesn't have a .NET port yet is Ada, and they're working on it. (Erm... wait. Actually, there is an Ada .NET port, A#, which I found when I googled it up, so scratch that...) Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Almafeta) Comments