07 July 2002

J# Final is out.  I'm relieved to find that it supports the collections framework (even though it is oficially only JDK 1.1.3).  This should make porting business logic classes a lot easier.  I wander how long before people start bring out newer Java packages for it? Visual J#.NET Homepage 11:43:18 AM     It looks like someone has got Rotor (Microsoft's shared source .NET implementation for FreeBSD and Windows) running on Linux. See Rotor Comes to Linux at O'Reilly's .NET DevCenter 11:35:20 AM     Jeroen Frijters is working on a project that loads Java byte-code and converts it into .NET IL on the fly. To quote the author. "Whenever a Java class is loaded a .NET type is created using Reflection.Emit. Due to the excellent architecture of Reflection.Emit in combination with the AppDomain.TypeResolve event, this works very well." He has an weblog charting progress of the project. The development of a Java VM for .NET. JITs Jave byte-code into .NET 11:24:34 AM

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