VS.NET vs. Java
FTPOnline: You've been looking at Microsoft tools as well as Java. Do you think there's relative parity between the environments, or is one clearly superior?
Lillie: There's a parity between the two. Of course, there are a lot of polemics in the marketplace about which environment is best to develop in, but for the organization that's creating the app, it resolves to familiarity. The good news is that when support for Web services was announced at JavaOne in 2001, there was a lot of talk about the monolithic Microsoft approach to providing these services. This year, we saw a lot more talk about coexistence. Quite a number of demonstrations showed interoperability between Web services on a Microsoft site and those in a Java world. Web services are based on a common set of standards. Both groups were smart enough to realize they needed to interoperate if Web services were going to be viable.
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