Programming legends debate .NET, J2EE
eWeek | at | by Mike
In a meeting of programming heavyweights dubbed a shootout of competing platforms, participants exhibited criticism and sarcasm, but also a grudging respect for their opposing peers. At a session entitled "The Great J2EE vs. Microsoft .Net Shootout" at the OOPSLA conference here this week, software development superstars debated the relative strengths and weaknesses of Microsoft's .Net and Sun's Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition.
Regarding the object-relational mapping issue, Hejlsberg said, "This is one of my pet peeves - the enormous impedance mismatch between databases and enterprise programming languages. I'm amazed at how much progress we can make by integrating the two worlds and O/R [object-relational] mappings are the first stop along that path. I'm spending a large portion of my time trying to figure out how to solve these problems."
Microsoft is at work on an object-relational mapping technology effort known as ObjectSpaces that was slated to be delivered with the upcoming Longhorn operating system.