Re: Java vs. .NET Face/Off -- WEB400

Thanks. Incidentially saw your name mentioned in the JavaServerFaces

(bible? definitve reference? The one with Ed Burns name on it) as the one
who thought of FaceListeners (afair) so you have been around :)

Yeah, we had correspondence a couple years ago and he asked for permission
to use that bit of code. Of course I was thrilled that he would even email
me so I gave him permission without a second thought! :-)

I will have to go out and buy that book now. I had forgotten about that. I
was hoping he would ship me a free copy ;-)

but I am also pragmatic and like to eat :D

I am trying perfect the process of starving only portions of my body (i.e.
my spare tire). I figure a discovery like this will be much more profitable
than all of my open source efforts combined! BTW, somebody did give me $20
a while back in thanks for RPGMail. The first time I have ever received a
donation :-)

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen <
thunderaxiom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Aaron Bartell skrev den 15-08-2008 14:51:

I am a newbie both with the program and the language so feel free to

suggest improvements.

This suggestion isn't necessarily an improvement but an alternative.
Whenever I am teaching people C#.NET I always point them to SharpDevelop
which is a free/open-source IDE that is very *similar* to Visual Studio.

I

am sure Visual Studio has more meat/features, but many may not need them,
and if you don't want *as much* vendor lock-in then Sharp Develop is a

nice

alternative.

http://sharpdevelop.net/OpenSource/SD/Default.aspx

I mostly use it for consuming RPG web services from .NET, but it also has
all the cool features of drag and drop GUI creation.

my $.02,
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

Thanks. Incidentially saw your name mentioned in the JavaServerFaces
(bible? definitve reference? The one with Ed Burns name on it) as the
one who thought of FaceListeners (afair) so you have been around :)

But our basic problem is that we cannot do much Windows integration - in
this particular example with Excel - without doing
COM/ADO/ActiveX/whatever and that is not easily done from within Java.
.NET might solve that, if the powers that be decide that this could be a
viable path. And yes, I have my cross-platform, vendor neutral
preferences, but I am also pragmatic and like to eat :D

--
Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen "... plus... Tubular Bells!"

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