Mainsoft Supports End-to-End .NET/J2EE Interoperability

Developer Program Links Visual Studio Developers to Linux

Jun. 29, 2005 06:00 PM

Laurence Moroney of Mainsoft Corporation, the cross-platform development company, spoke with SYS-CON.TV at the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco about Visual MainWin for J2EE Developer Edition, a.k.a. Grasshopper, a freely available Visual Studio .NET plug-in, which enables Visual Studio developers to quickly develop Web applications for Linux . Technical articles and community forums are available at no charge to developers who register at http://dev.mainsoft.com .

Mainsoft also announced today it has extended its collaboration with Mono , an open-source development community that is developing an open source version of the Microsoft .NET development platform. With Grasshopper, Visual Studio .NET developers can contribute enhancements, class libraries and fixes to Grasshopper's and Mono's shared open source runtime.

According to a recent study by Evans Data Corporation, one in five developers using Visual Studio .NET as their primary IDE have written an application for Linux. The study also indicates that more than half of the Visual Studio .NET developers surveyed have used open source components in their application development.

"Already, cross-platform development is a powerful reality among our ISV customers, who use the high productivity of Visual Studio software to develop enterprise applications once and deploy them on multiple platforms," said Yaacov Cohen, Mainsoft's president and CEO. "Grasshopper encourages wide-spread adoption of Linux development among Visual Studio developers, who can easily move, or 'hop' across Windows, Linux and other Java-enabled platforms."

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