From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROM_WORDY, INVALID_MSGID,PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT,XPRIO autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,50a49dfe306e5bff,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Ken Garlington" Subject: Microsoft bids bye-bye to Java Date: 2000/07/13 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 645713793 X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 X-Complaints-To: abuse@flash.net X-Trace: news.flash.net 963450190 216.215.86.220 (Wed, 12 Jul 2000 20:03:10 CDT) Organization: FlashNet Communications, http://www.flash.net X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 20:03:10 CDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-07-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Microsoft bids bye-bye to Java By Mary Jo Foley ZDNN http://www.msnbc.com/news/431715.asp ORLANDO, Fla., July 11 � When Microsoft delivers an alpha version of its Visual Studio.Net tool suite to attendees of its Professional Developers Conference here Wednesday, one language will be sorely missing: Java. THE OMISSION OF J++ was expected by many, as Microsoft continues to battle Java creator Sun Microsystems Inc. in court over Microsoft�s right to extend Microsoft�s J++ implementation of Java for Windows. Sun sued Microsoft in 1997 over Microsoft�s Java license, and specifically, over the necessity for Microsoft to remain in lockstep compatibility with Sun�s Java. Prior to this week, whenever Microsoft officials were asked whether or not Microsoft�s legal problems would cause it to shy away from Java, they remained mum. Microsoft officials claimed repeatedly on Tuesday that the sole reason they are not including J++ in Visual Studio .Net is uncertainty regarding the implication of the Java suit. Until Tuesday, Microsoft management declined to confirm or deny whether Microsoft would feature an updated version of J++ alongside its other Visual Studio tools � Visual Basic, Visual C++, JScript and Microsoft�s recently introduced C# (pronounced �C Sharp�) languages � when it shipped Visual Studio 7, or as it is now known, Visual Studio .Net. (Visual Studio .Net is slated to go to beta by the end of this summer and ship commercially next year.) But in detailing Microsoft�s .Net Framework during a general session here at the PDC Tuesday, Microsoft distinguished engineer Anders Hejlsberg mentioned every language but Java. �The .Net platform is truly language-neutral,� Hejlsberg told the audience. �All .Net languages are first-class players." Hejlsberg went on to list the wide variety of third-party languages, ranging from APL and Cobol to Pascal, Eiffel and SmallTalk, that various vendors are porting to support the Microsoft .Net Framework. The Framework is a common set of classes and libraries that provide the basis for the .Net building blocks that Microsoft is building to deliver on its software as a service .Net platform. But Hejlsberg, who played a key role in developing Microsoft J++ after joining Microsoft from Inprise (the former Borland International) didn�t mention Java at all. Rational Software was rumored, at one point, to have taken over Microsoft�s J++ product, with Microsoft�s blessing. But Rational never confirmed that speculation, and Microsoft outright denied it.