Java API and Microsoft's .NET API: a Comparison

Nerval's Lobster writes "Previously, developer Jeff Cogswell focused on the respective performances of C# and Java. Now he's looking at yet another aspect of the languages: the runtime libraries—what exactly the libraries are, how they are called, and what features the languages provide for calling into them. Examining the official Java API (now owned by Oracle) and the official .NET API owned by Microsoft, he finds both pretty complete and pretty much a 'tie' with regard to ease-of-use and functionality, especially since Java version 7 release 6 allows for automatic resource management. Read on and see if you agree."

Comments

Oracle vs Microsoft

[ArcadeMan]

Whoever wins, we lose.

Re: Critical Bugs

[Rockoon]

There are ciritical fixes released for the .net API every so often via windows update. Neither are flawless in that regard.

It seems to me that Microsoft tries hard to make sure that updates to the framework dont break existing programs, whereas it doesnt seem like Oracle even makes an attempt.