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Java Forum / General / October 2005Is there a Visual J++ Enterprise edition
The Visual Studio 6 Enterprise edition I have contains Disc 1,2,3 and Visual J++ Professional Edition. Is this correct? > The Visual Studio 6 Enterprise edition I have contains Disc 1,2,3 and > Visual J++ Professional Edition. Is this correct? Maybe I'm misunderstanding the question, but how can anyone other than you know what you have? For what it's worth, I could not find a reference to Visual J++ Enterprise Edition on Microsoft's website (there were some references to it on other sites, but those other sites might not be reliable sources of information). I think Microsoft is also trying to push people away from J++ and J#, and more towards C#, so I wouldn't be too surprised to find out that the J++ family of products is "lacking" in some way or another. - Oliver Hi Oliver, sorry for the misunderstanding. I meant to ask people who also have Visual Studio 6 Enterprise Edition. > .....I meant to ask people who > also have Visual Studio 6 Enterprise Edition. He's not available right now. ..Perhaps I should point out that MS and Java "don't play" very well together. Any 'Java' offering from MS has had a number of difficult aspects to it. MS tools for Java are generally obsolete, and otherwise highly suspicious. >> .....I meant to ask people who >> also have Visual Studio 6 Enterprise Edition. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > MS tools for Java are generally obsolete, and otherwise > highly suspicious. First thing first; Visual J++ Professional shipped with VS6 Enterprise as I recollect it. But that was a long time ago ... Actually Visual J++ weren't half bad given the alternatives at the time, but it were twisted towards Microsoft and not any existing standards, using it's own windowing system etc. etc. The fact that it supports an actual programming language would make me use it over the more common VB 6, if I'd have to program in VS 6. But I don't have to :-) Today VJ++ is not suitable for anything else than maintaining legacy win32 code or targeting win32 sans .net platforms.  Signaturejon martin solaas .. > Today VJ++ is not suitable for anything else than maintaining legacy > win32 code or targeting win32 sans .net platforms. The only support that MS is supplying for the MSVM is .. - a link to the Sun plug-in. - a link to a tool to identify applications that make use of the MSVM, and therefore require conversion ( I guess the page would push 'convert to .NET' heavily ;). > Today VJ++ is not suitable for anything else than maintaining legacy win32 > code or targeting win32 sans .net platforms. If you have code that is Java 1.1 and you want to keep it at Java 1.1 and you are already using VJ++ it makes sense to keep using VJ++ - it is a fine development environment and it is very easy to avoid using the Microsoft extensions to Java. It doesn't make much sense to start using VJ++ now because it is a dead-end environment, having been abandoned by Microsoft. > The Visual Studio 6 Enterprise edition I have contains Disc 1,2,3 and > Visual J++ Professional Edition. Is this correct? If you want to learn Java, throw that stuff away. J++ is not Java. It is based on a very old Java version with incompatible extensions. Plus, Microsoft dropped development and support of J++ and Java some time ago, If you want to learn Java, go to Sun's web site, and download the Java SDK. Or, if you really want to wrestle with an IDE instead of learning Java, get one of the several free Java IDEs, like Eclipse, or Sun's Netbeans IDE. Start here http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/getStarted/cupojava/index.html But if you really want to do J++, please ask in a Microsoft group. /Thomas SignatureThe comp.lang.java.gui FAQ: ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/NEWS.ANSWERS/computer-lang/java/gui/faq http://www.uni-giessen.de/faq/archiv/computer-lang.java.gui.faq/ > The Visual Studio 6 Enterprise edition I have contains Disc 1,2,3 and > Visual J++ Professional Edition. Is this correct? Yes, there never was an enterprise edition of J++ since Microsoft abandoned Java at a point before enterprise Java was much more than the Servlet spec. Microsoft want you to use .Net instead, providing "J#" for the purpose of porting J++ apps to it. Free MagazinesGet these publications absolutely FREE for up to 12 months. There are no hidden fees and no obligation. Simply choose a title, complete the application form and submit it. Read more ...
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