Updated: July 10, 2020 (June 6, 2001)
Sidebar.NET Framework vs. Sun's J2EE
As competing application platforms, Microsoft’s .NET Framework and Sun’s Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) framework are strikingly similar in their intentions and architecture, but completely different in their underlying implementations. At this time, it appears that neither .NET nor J2EE will easily dominate, which means nearly anybody developing software will at some point have to choose between the two alternatives.
Similar Missions
The .NET Framework and J2EE were created with similar goals in mind:
Enhancing developer productivity by providing developers with preexisting components that eliminate the need to write low-level routines, along with a programming model that makes it easy to reuse code components created by others.
Increasing reliability by eliminating some of the more error-prone constructs of development languages like C (such as indirect pointers) and by using programming models that force all points of interaction between code components to be clearly defined, which isolates the impact of mistakes and makes errors easier to track.
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