Microsoft® .NET and J2EE Interoperability Toolkit

Introduction

During the past two years, I have presented on the subject of interoperability between Microsoft .NET and Sun’s J2EE at a number of conferences, customer meetings, and internal seminars. The majority of the presentations I’ve given have concentrated on the key takeaways and elements presented in this book. I decided to write this book because I wanted to share this information with a wider audience. My rationale and support for interoperability has evolved over time based on my experience, my work on development projects, and most importantly, customer feedback.

When the Microsoft .NET Framework was first released, I spent a lot of time looking at migration strategies and how customers could move existing applications based on the ...