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OOPSLA
Workshop
J2EE
vs .NET
November 4-8, 2002, Seattle, Washington, USA
Theme and
Goals:
The theme of this workshop is comparing and contrasting J2EE™ (Sun
Microsystems) and .NET™ (Microsoft) platforms. The goal is to identify
architectural differences, performance, productivity, maintenance issues
between the two platforms, as well as providing a means to determine which
platform is more suitable for what kind of applications. This would be very
valuable for project managers, technical leaders, architects and even
CEOs/CIOs, to be able to choose the right platform for their projects or their
companies. Please refer to activities for a
description of Pre-Workshop Activities, Workshop Format, and Post-Workshop
Activities. For more information, comments or paper submission, please submit
your comments or papers to one of the following committee member’s e-mail
address.
This workshop is being organized by several
practitioners, including the following:
Chair: Saeid Tehrani,
Consultant-Architect
Electronic Data Systems
EDS Digital Enablement,
Troy, Michigan
Co-chair: Ali Arsanjani
Senior I/T Architect,
IBM
Stephen Jacobs,
Consultant-Specialist
Electronic Data Systems
EDS Digital Enablement,
Troy, Michigan
Stuart McAlpin,
Consultant-Specialist
Electronic Data Systems
EDS Digital Enablement,
Troy, Michigan
Overview:
In the IT industry,
innovation happens everyday. This causes challenges for architects, developers,
project managers, CIOs and CEOs to constantly learn and evaluate solutions for
their projects and their companies.
On one hand, Java has been
one of the most successful, innovative and evolving languages/frameworks for
the past few years. Many large mainframe applications have been ported to Java.
Java started with the slogan of “write once and deploy it many (platforms),”
with platforms as small as smartcards, thin and thick clients to large
mainframe installations. Nonetheless, Java (J2EE) has become one of the most
successful frameworks for the web/application servers.
On the other hand, a new
framework called .net has emerged from Microsoft, which has many features of
J2EE and will be one of the larges competitors of J2EE. Although both
frameworks stand on a foundation of programming languages, object models and
virtual machines, they are strikingly different when considering the design
goals of their runtime environment. The choice of the two dominating platforms
will be a hot topic of discussion for the next few years to come.