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20040217 Tuesday February 17, 2004

Write your Java apps in Visual Studio.NET? Apparently Visual MainWin allows you to write your webapps in C# and .NET and then deploy them to a J2EE server.

Visual MainWin for J2EE enables these organizations to deploy .NET and J2EE applications on a single J2EE infrastructure, eliminating the need to maintain two separate application servers or implement complex interoperability solutions between the .NET and J2EE platforms.

This product certainly won't do anything for me. I've heard that Visual Studio is a great IDE, but if I can't write Java in it - what's the point?

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Then again, I'm biased. I have a friend who is a long-time Java developer. Lately, he's been developing in C# because that was the only gig he could get (in Nevada). He says that C# is a piece of sh*t compared to Java.

Update: My friend contacted me to set the record straight. To quote him, "C# is OK, its the .NET framework that sucks ass. The C# syntax is a total ripoff of Java anyways." Posted in Java at Feb 17 2004, 12:20:00 PM MST 21 Comments

Good Ant Tip Nick has an Ant tip that I can put to good use.

This A little-known Ant feature is the hyphenated target name. If you have a target name that starts with a "-", such as "-test-setup", you will not be able to call that target from the command line. Developers creating utility targets in their build.xml files can use this to avoid confusing other developers with irrelevant support targets.

There are a fair amount of internal targets in AppFuse that don't need to be visible and can't be really be called from the command line. Last time I checked, IDEA and Eclipse both allowed hiding of internal targets - so I rarely see these, but it might be a good idea to make them more explicit. I'll put it on my what-I-can-do-when-I-get-bored list. Posted in Java at Feb 17 2004, 09:23:10 AM MST 1 Comment