can i design java applications in MS development Environment 2003

rookie1010 · 10-28-2006, 05:30 PM

Hello

Can i design java applications in MS development Environment 2003?

jaeusm · 10-28-2006, 10:25 PM

You can develop J# applications in Visual Studio. As long as you don't reference .Net libraries, you can probably use the JDK to compile the same source code, and thus have a real Java program.

rookie1010 · 10-29-2006, 06:21 AM

thanks for the reply

so i can access the JDK from within the MS Dev 2003?

hillbillybob · 10-29-2006, 09:56 PM

Due to liscensing issues....no. You cannot access the JDK from "inside" VS 2003. You still have to use the command line.

rookie1010 · 10-30-2006, 06:14 AM

thanks for the reply

thsi is sun keeping microsoft out of the java business, correct?

hillbillybob · 10-30-2006, 12:14 PM

Way back when, and I can't remember when, but it was between VS 6.0 and VS .NET....Sun and Microsoft had a Row over the availability of Java in VS. That's why you can only use J#, not Java. I don't know the details of it, but I wouldn't go so far as to say that Sun doesn't want MS in the java business, as to say that MS can no longer market anything under or with the "Java" name. I would imagine this is in part because IBM has their JVM, and MS was wanting their JVM. IBM was adhering to and communicating with/contributing to the Java community. MS wanted to create their own verison of the JVM, with out Sun in on it.

rookie1010 · 11-01-2006, 04:33 PM

thanks for the reply

i came across IBM JVM
, i thought that since Sun came up with Java, the only JVM would be from Sun?

what is the difference between IBM and Sun JVM?

hillbillybob · 11-01-2006, 05:17 PM

Ya know, I couldn't tell you. On a class-by-class basis, I don't know. I imagine IBM came out with their JVM in part because the were/are the biggest corporate backer in the Eclipse project. It is an ECMA standard, to my recollection.

Kinda like Novell and Mono...with C# being an ECMA standard, Novell and a community took some initiative and ported .NET and C# to the *nix platforms (Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, and even Windows) So now with something like 98% compatibility .NET programmers can compile their code to run on Mono too.

rookie1010 · 11-04-2006, 04:18 PM

thanks for the reply

what is an ECMA standard?

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