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Visual Studio® .NET-Integrated Development Environment A Cost-Effective
Solution to the J2EE Platform Productivity Crisis
DEMO EXECUTIVE CONFERENCE - Scottsdale, Ariz. - Feb. 16, 2004 - Mainsoft
Corporation (www.mainsoft.com),
the cross-platform development company, today unveiled Visual MainWin®
for the J2EETM platform, the first application development tool that enables
millions of Visual Studio® developers to create Java 2 Enterprise
Edition (J2EETM) enterprise Web applications and Web services within the
Visual Studio® .NET framework. Selected to debut at the prestigious
DEMO 2004 conference, Visual MainWin resolves the acute productivity and
resource challenges of developing enterprise applications for industry-leading
J2EE servers. Mainsoft opens the previously single-language JavaTM platform
to C# and Visual Basic® .NET, two of today's fastest growing programming
languages.
"Conflicting
software standards for developing and deploying the next generation of
enterprise applications and Web services - Microsoft's .NET and J2EE from
Sun, along with IBM and BEA standards - are inflating development costs
and driving productivity losses in medium- and large-scale enterprises,"
said Mark Driver, vice president and research director, The Gartner Group.
"What is needed are technology solutions that enables Visual Studio
developers to easily create applications for the Java platform. Until
now, software developers have had limited success bridging the .NET /J2EE
divide."
Visual MainWin
allows IT organizations to make deployment decisions based on their business
needs rather than resource constraints. Enterprise CIOs with Visual Studio
developers can tap into the scalability and flexibility of the J2EE application
servers without replacing or attempting to retrain these developers. Large-scale
IT organizations with both .NET and Java developers can accelerate the
development process significantly by co-developing enterprise-class applications
and Web services using Visual MainWin.
"Visual
MainWin is playing an integral role in the evolution of the Java platform
by broadening the J2EE platform into a multilingual platform for Web applications
and Web services," said Yaacov Cohen, president and CEO of Mainsoft
Corporation. "By opening the J2EE platform to three million C# and
Visual Basic .NET developers, we offer medium- and large-scale enterprise
IT departments a practical solution to the acute J2EE platform productivity
and resource crises."
The Technology
Solution
Visual MainWin introduces a patent pending technology that compiles the
Microsoft® Intermediate Language (MSIL) source code directly into
standard Java bytecode. For the first time, enterprises can use Visual
Basic .NET and C# developers to rapidly develop Web applications for the
J2EE platform. Visual MainWin preserves the complete Visual Studio developer
experience, allowing developers to develop, run, debug and deploy their
code directly within the Visual Studio system. Because the output is fully
compliant with the J2EE platform standards, Visual MainWin application
can be deployed and managed as any standard J2EE application.
IT organizations
with both .NET and Java developers can accelerate the development of enterprise-class
applications and Web services significantly by co-developing multi-tiered
applications. Visual Basic .NET and C# developers rapidly create the front-end
of the application in Visual Studio, while Java developers provide the
back-end business logic and J2EE components. Visual MainWin bridges the
technology gap, enabling Visual Studio, Visual Basic .NET or C# developers
to easily access Enterprise JavaBeansTM (EJBsTM).
"Mainsoft
has created an innovative solution for IT organizations struggling with
conflicting development standards," said Chris Shipley, DEMO executive
producer. "Visual MainWin enables organizations to accelerate application
development by using their resources more efficiently."
Bridging
the Technology Gap
For more than a decade, Mainsoft has extended the productivity of the
Visual Studio environment to multiple platforms, helping many of the world's
largest independent software vendors resolve their most pressing cross
platform development issues. Responding to growing customer concerns about
J2EE development, Mainsoft identified the opportunity to extend the productivity
of Visual Studio to the J2EE platform. Since 2001, the company has drawn
upon its years of experience working with Microsoft developers, its deep
expertise in bridging between the Windows® and UNIX® operating
systems, its memberships in the European Computer Manufacturing Association
(ECMA) and the MONO open-source project to create a unique development
solution that bridges the .NET and J2EE platforms.
The Business
Need
While CIOs tend to favor the J2EE platform to deploy large-scale enterprise
applications, the resource and workflow challenges of developing Java
applications are significant. According to The Gartner Group, the growing
demand for large-scale J2EE projects far outpaces the availability and
skills of J2EE developers and the gap will continue to grow for the next
three to four years. The fact that most enterprise IT departments employ
a large staff of Visual Basic developers who are not familiar with the
J2EE design patterns and programming model compounds resource issues.
These large IT organizations replace their Microsoft developers or outsource
portions of their development projects. However, both strategies carry
hidden costs and inevitably result in productivity losses. Others attempt
to transform their Microsoft-centric development staff into a highly skilled
J2EE development team. This, too, is an expensive and risky venture. It
requires changing the development team's methodology, workflow, and development
culture, and there is no guarantee the transformation will be successful.
"Leveraging
common skills and code between .NET and J2EE is a promising, cost-effective
approach to resolving the developer productivity challenges," said
Driver.
About DEMO
2004
The annual DEMO and DEMOmobile conferences focus on emerging technologies
and new products, which are hand-selected by executive producer Chris
Shipley from across the spectrum of the personal technology marketplace.
Top executives from the leading hardware and software technology companies,
venture capitalists, journalists from key industry publications and industry
analysts attend the DEMO and DEMOmobile conferences to preview the most
promising products and technologies for the coming year. DEMO is held
in February each year and features approximately 60 new companies, products
and technologies. DEMOmobile is held each fall and features approximately
35 new mobile technologies. For more information, visit http://www.demo.com/.
About Mainsoft
Corporation
Founded in 1993, Mainsoft Corporation, the cross-platform development
company, enables businesses to develop mission-critical applications with
Visual Studio software and deploy them natively on J2EE, UNIX® and
Linux® platforms dramatically reducing development costs and time-to-market.
The company is a first-mover in cross-platform development. Its world-class
research and development team has created patented cross-platform products
that solve critical problems facing independent software vendors (ISVs)
and IT organizations. Many of the world's largest independent software
vendors (ISVs), including Siebel, Computer Associates and IBM Rational,
use Mainsoft's products to extend the productivity of Microsoft® Visual
Studio, deploying more than $1 billion worth of software annually on multiple
operating systems. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., the company has
90 employees and offices in Chicago, London and Israel. For more information,
visit www.mainsoft.com.
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