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MainWin 1.5 Ports .NET to J2EE


By Yvonne L. Lee
November 1, 2004 — 
Mainsoft Corp.’s flagship product, Visual MainWin, has gotten a boost from being a tool that helped C++ and C# developers participate in J2EE products to one that can port .NET applications to J2EE.

Visual MainWin released in late September takes C# code and translates it into Java byte code. Prior versions of Visual MainWin were focused on helping Java teams work together with programmers who were familiar with C#. Because teams working in this scenario were more likely to know the limitations of using specialized .NET features, it was not as necessary to build in support for those APIs, said Andy Milo, senior technical account manager.

“In looking at an existing application, you might have used specific .NET technology, and you’re not thinking about moving it to Java at the time. Whereas, if you start out in co-development mode, you’re not going to do that,” he said. “ Taking that code and converting it over to Java is more challenging because the breadth of technology you need to support is broader.”

Visual MainWin 1.5 costs US$5,000 per developer seat for two-year license.

New porting features include a porting wizard that guides steps through porting existing .NET code to the J2EE platform.

“The difference is before we were emphasizing cross-platform development. Now, you can take an existing application and port it,” explained director of marketing Jenna Dobkin.

“The language isn’t everything,” said Noam Fogel, vice president of research and development at the Israeli broadband services company Infogate Online Ltd. who said his company used a beta version of Visual MainWin 1.5 to port its OnDema application for a telecomm client in Taiwan. “It’s the language, the framework (.NET vs. J2EE), the hardware platform and the operating system.” The OnDema system previously ran only on x86 hardware running Windows, but can now run on Sparc servers running Linux, he said.

In addition to the porting capability, Visual MainWin 1.5 now rehosts ASP.NET elements from Infragistics’ NetAdvantage 2004 presentation layer development toolset on the J2EE platform. The Infragistics add-on, which costs $1,500 per developer, also for a two-year license, makes it possible for .NET developers to build J2EE Web applications and Web services using NetAdvantage’s designers and style presets.


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