Re: Java vs. .NET Face/Off

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Thorbjørn

There is a .Net provider for iSeries - it does install from Selective Setup of iSeries Access. I'd thought it could once upon a time be installed by itself - not sure now. You do need the MS .Net runtime, just as you need the JVM for Java.

HTH
Vern

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen <thunderaxiom@xxxxxxxxx> 

> Richard Schoen skrev den 11-08-2008 17:59: 
> > The simple fact is that this is a facoff of two popular "i" 
> > modernization technologies: Java and .Net. 
> I am currently doing some "client that must run on every users computer" 
> stuff in Java, where it has been very easy to include the OpenSource 
> version of the java toolbox instead of having to rely on an installation 
> of Client Access on each and every computer. 
>
> Is there a similar feature for .NET or must each user have installed 
> something before a client can connect to our i? 
>
> -- 
> Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen "... plus... Tubular Bells!" 
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