Java: Closer to .NET than You Think! The Java versus .NET discussion is heating up again. Microsoft releases Visual J# (read: "Visual Jay-Sharp") which takes your Java applications and compiles them right into .NET "intermediary language" representation. That's part of Microsoft's JUMP (Java User Migration Path) strategy. Once you have compiled your Java libraries using J#, they can be used right from C#, Visual Basic, etc. Anyway, here are some links to the noteworthy "Java vs. .NET" resources I ran into during the past weeks. http://www.devx.com/upload/free/Features/
Javapro/2002/01jan02/jt0102/jt0102-1.asp http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-11-2001/jw-1121-iw-jsharp.html
Unifying JMS and JSP. Applications based on Java Message Service (JMS), tend to be more scalable than those based on RMI or CORBA. In this article, Tarak Modi shows how to bring the power of JMS to JavaServer Pages developers who are excellent at content development but not interested in the intricacies of asynchronous JMS programming. http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2001/jw-0209-jms.html