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C# From a Java Developer's Perspective

Posted by timothy on from the curve-before-a-meeting-of-lines dept.

Microsoft's C# has raised eyebrows, interest and debate since its official announcement last year. The prolific Carnage4Life (Dare Obasanjo) has completed a detailed comparison of C# and Java, outlining the things that are identical, similar, nearly the same, or completely different between the two languages. If you're considering learning or applying either one, you might benefit by reading this paper first. There are some other excellent comparisons to be found linked from the Open Directory Project as well. Update: 11/20 03:35 GMT by T : Note: here's a mirror; interested readers who mirror the mirror get good seats in heaven.

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  1. Java != Sun by RichiP · · Score: 5, Informative

    Although Sun engineers are handling the boards, the direction of Java is mostly influenced by the general public through the Java Community Process (See http://www.jcp.org/). Sun simply acts as an arbiter and caretaker.

    If there are any good ideas in C#, there's really no reason it couldn't be adopted by Java. Someone just has to submit a request

  2. w00t? no dynamic class loading? by mnf999 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I did not know that (and couldn't read the full description as the site is totally /.ed :(

    I design JBoss, the leading J2EE server and at THE HEART of it is the capicity to dynamically deploy new applications on our application server. I mean that is what application servers are ALL ABOUT.

    in fact (plug) in JBoss we go the extra mile and allow you to hot-deploy (dynamically add classes) the server classes themselves, which neither IBM nor BEA, nor Oracle do.

    So I was curious to know who would win the .net webservices race but it is extremelly clear in my mind, J2EE frameworks will deliver with webservices easier than any C# framework will

    Why? well imagine that ANY time you change your class in C# YOU NEED TO REBOOT THE APPLICATION SERVER, yes, boys and girls that is the simple thing that "dynamic class loading" affords you, without it, the VM is tied to whatever you have at startup.

    GEEEEZZZ!

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    The real mnf999 always posts as anonymous coward
  3. Alternate Site For Article... by Carnage4Life · · Score: 4, Informative

    Get it here

    PS: Mirrors encouraged, so if you manage to grab it and can host it at a site with beefier bandwidth, go ahead.