- Migration from Microsoft Visual J++ 6.0
- Released in 1998
- Due to legal problems with Sun, Microsoft withdrew the product from the market
- Allows Microsoft's J++ customers to migrate to .NET easily
- Simplify things for Java developers
- Because they are already familiar with the syntax and set of class libraries, Java developers are "instantly" productive on Visual J# .Net
- Another option:
- Java applications can be converted to C# using the Microsoft Java Language Conversion Assistant (JLCA).
- Academic Area
- Microsoft is avowedly hoping to entice students who learned Java coding skills in college.
- Microsoft hopes that because J# enables them to leverage their skills on .NET, it will present easy entry to the platform.
- Prepare for WinFX (LongHorn)
- As the successor of the non object oriented Win32 API, WinFX will provide full access to all Microsoft capabilities in Windows in an object oriented fashion
- To be included in next version of Windows that can execute .NET applications "out of the box" :
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