Microsoft J# Greeted with Jeers

Microsoft recently released a test version of a new development tool to attract Java developers towards its .Net Web services environment. But headlines like “J# falls flat” and “J# is uninteresting” greeted it.Visual J# .Net is designed to work in conjunction with Microsoft’s forthcoming Visual Studio .Net and allow Java developers to migrate older Java applications to the .Net framework. 

          However, developers cannot create standalone Java software with Visual J# .Net, so the applications will only function on Microsoft platform.Microsoft lost its license to use Java earlier in the year 2000 after a long battle that resulted from a Sun action in 1997 against alteration of the language by the Redmond giant. But Microsoft was permitted to use a limited version of Java in its products for the next seven years. Visual J# is also thus born with limited capabilities, but could help Microsoft to slowly but surely move away from Java without suffering due to such a move. Eventually Microsoft wants to see its C# take the place of Java.

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