question regarding VisualStudio.NET and J#

[carpeliam]

I currently use VisualStudio v6 for development. As far as I can tell, VisualStudio 6 is being phased out to make way for .NET. I've also read that J# will not compile java classes in such a way that they can be used with a JVM. Does MS have plans to sell a Java editor compatible with a Java Virtual Machine? What's the deal here? I'm confused Liam Morley
lmorley@gdc.wpi.edu
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[pipk]

do you mean j# or are you on about c# or j++?

As far as I am aware Microsoft (although I am a bit out of touch here) have ditched Java as an option and are instead fully pushing C# as their java equivalent. As a result they no longer have built in java support.

If you are talking about J++ then that is frozen with version 1 of java and because of the M$ and Sun law suit, it will never be made to work with any later versions of java (so unless you wish to continue building in JDK1.1 then you may as well uninstall it and throw away the disc).

if you do a search of this forum you should find some newspaper reports about the whole mess i posted around August last year.

 

[carpeliam]

well I can get around the jdk1.1 issue simply by importing C:\j2sdk1.4.0\jre\lib\rt.jar into my classpath.. this at least will get things to compile. but back to the issue.

basically, the question was "am I going to have to pick a new Java IDE", and the answer seems to be yes. I guess, though, what's the point in developing (or spending money on) J# if it's only going to be turned into C#, or something similar? Why develop Java that isn't portable? What's MS trying to sell here?

I'll go look through your old posts.. hopefully something will pop up. Liam Morley
lmorley@gdc.wpi.edu
"light the deep, and bring silence to the world.
light the world, and bring depth to the silence."