Mainsoft upgrade brings .NET and Java closer
By Robert Mullins
April 8, 2008 —
Mainsoft, which has built its business on helping .NET and Java EE programs work well together, today introduced an upgrade that includes a new algorithm to convert binary code to text more quickly.
According to the company, Mainsoft for Java EE, version 2.2, adds support for Microsoft’s ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX extensions for creating Web applications and the AJAX Control Toolkit for adding features to a site, such as a drop-down menu or a submit button. With the upgrade, developers using Microsoft’s Visual C# and Visual Basic languages can use ASP.NET 2.0 components to create applications that can run on a Java application server, Mainsoft explained.
Version 2.2 is an upgrade from version 2.0, which Mainsoft released in June 2007.
“Today we are adding the AJAX controls on top of ASP.NET so these next-generation Web applications can be developed once and deployed anywhere,” said Yaacov Cohen, president and CEO of Mainsoft. “From an enterprise standpoint, what this means is a decoupling between the development decision and the production decision.”
The new software also introduces a new algorithm for converting between binary code and text code more quickly, said Eyal Alaluf, vice president of technology at Mainsoft.
“One of the things that happens when you rely on text-based protocols is that you have, on the server side, a lot of numbers, and you have to convert the binary representation to text-based representation,” said Alaluf, who noted that the conversion exacts a performance penalty of 5% to 10%.
The new algorithm increases the speed of conversion and improves overall application performance by 4% to 5%, he said.
The overhauled algorithm also improves scalability, Cohen claimed, allowing more people to use a Web application at the same time.
Mainsoft is donating the code for the conversion algorithm to the Mono open-source community, which was established by Novell to create tools to develop .NET applications to run on the Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, Unix and Windows operating systems.
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