24 NOVEMBER, 2004
.NET for J2EE

Mainsoft sells Visual MainWin, which uses the Mono libraries to allow .NET developers to develop J2EE applications for the Enterprise (and allows J2EE developers to use C#, if they so wish). Whatever one says about the Microsoft development process as a whole, no-one denies that Microsoft produces productive coding environments that developers like. At least, the sort of developer who still believes in code (and there are many of them), as opposed to UML and the more advanced forms of MDA, likes Microsoft development environments such as .NET.

Now Mainsoft has released a significant upgrade and is highlighting case studies, featuring (of course) happy customers.

Visual MainWin now includes support for single-sourcecode development for the .NET and J2EE platforms and has added Infragistics' NetAdvantage ASP.NET elements.

The customers include Woolworths S.A., which has used Visual MainWin to develop and deploy a business-critical data monitoring and alerting system for a Sybase J2EE portal. Mainsoft claims that the alternative, outsourcing to J2EE developers, would have cost Woolworths five to six times as much.

Then, Infogate Online, a leader in software solutions for IPTV; on-demand video and gaming; and educational software, used Visual MainWin to port its OnDema software platform, containing 500,000 lines of C# code, to Linux in just 90 days. Infogate Online estimates that rewriting the application from scratch would have taken at least eighteen months. Mainsoft is at http://www.mainsoft.com

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