ECOOP / Tutorial 05

Comparing J2EE and .NET

Abstract

Microsoft .NET and J2EE both offer complete platforms to build sophisticated enterprise applications without being strongly tied to the underlying operating system or hardware. They provide a complete range of APIs to build different kinds of applications such as Web-based applications, GUIs, or distributed software systems. While J2EE mainly addresses platform neutrality, the main focus of .NET currently is programming language neutrality. As competition drives the market, many experts anticipate J2EE and .NET to become  competitors each of them gaining a significant share of the software development market. Needless to say that it is important for the programmer to understand the commonalities and differences of these platforms. For this purpose, the tutorial will assume that attendees are familiar with Java. It will introduce .NET technologies and contrast them with their Java counterparts. Attendees will understand where the platforms are similar and where they differ. Attendees will aso learn about the strengths and weaknesses of both technologies.    

Presenter Profile

Michael Stal

Michael Stal is with Siemens Corporate Technology since 1991 where he is Senior Principal Engineer and leads a team on Middleware and Application Integration. Michael is co-author of the book series "Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture", editor-in-chief of the magazine JavaSPEKTRUM, and member of the OMG. In addition, he gave many talks in international conferences such as ECOOP, Middleware, OOPSLA, TOOLS and wrote many articles for magazines such as JOOP, iX, CACM, C++ Report, Object Magazine, Objektspektrum. 

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