Product overview
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Use Grasshopper 1.x and Visual Studio 2003 to run ASP.NET applications on J2EE under
Linux.
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First
Looks: Turn Your .NET App Into Java
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"...Visual MainWin did an admirable job of making the templates compatible. I really
did feel as if the templates didn't ask me to do anything the Microsoft templates
didn't already expect..." |
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Product Review: ... Best of Both Worlds?
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"...The visual designer for ASP.NET pages works in its usual, highly productive,
way, and IntelliSense and the Object Browser work with objects in Java namespaces..." |
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Rapid application development
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Write your first Linux application with the Visual Studio .NET IDE in 10 minutes.
In this article, you use the Visual Studio .NET development environment to write
an ASP.NET stock quote Web application that runs on Linux.
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Use Visual Studio .NET to build an n-tier Web application, in this case a Web mail
portal, and then migrate it to a Linux-based server in just 10 minutes!
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Porting
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If you want to run the Race to Linux or if you simply want to migrate your
existing ASP.NET applications to run on J2EE or Linux, and you weren't sure where
to get started – then this article is for you!
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Using Grasshopper, take this reference application from Microsoft and run it on
Tomcat for J2EE under Linux in just a few minutes.
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With this step-by-step guide, learn what it takes to portalize the ASP.NET Issue
Tracker Starter Kit using Visual MainWin for J2EE, Portal Edition.
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Interoperability
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Get your ASP.NET application to interact with your J2EE application server and invoke
EJBs. It’s as easy as invoking XML Web services. Achieve interoperability with your
core J2EE assets without expensive wrappers!
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Knowledge base
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The Grasshopper .NET Framework is a set of JAR files, which implement the .NET Framework
APIs on top of the J2EE platform. You may want to update Grasshopper .NET Framework
either with a newer version of an already existing JAR file, or with a new JAR that
should be added to the framework.
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Localizing a portal application is basically no different than localizing a .NET
application, using the .NET resource manager and satellite assemblies. However,
there are a couple of differences and issues that you should take into account when
you wish to localize a portal application. Read this article to learn how to localize
a portal application with Grasshopper.
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When you launch Java console applications from the Visual Studio .NET IDE, you cannot
see what the command line to invoke the application is. Should you want to deploy
an application and create a shortcut to it, it would be handy to know how the IDE
launches it. Learn how to do that here.
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In order to debug your Web application or Web service with Grasshopper, your application
server must be configured to run in debug mode. This article will show you how to
do this.
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Problems starting WebLogic?
Sometimes, after you’ve installed Grasshopper you can get ‘Path too Long’ errors
when trying to start BEA WebLogic. The fix is easy. This article will take you through
the steps to get you up and running in no time at all.
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So you're interested in learning more about Linux, but don't have a spare machine
on hand. No problem -- with this terrific tool you can run a fully featured Linux
system as a Virtual Machine inside Windows. It comes complete with Tomcat and PostgreSQL,
so you can build and test your ASP.NET applications on Linux easily.
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Samples and codeblocks
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The StocksPortfolio application is a sample that demonstrates integration with J2EE
application servers. It demonstrates Enterprise Java Beans connectivity and integration
with the J2EE application server security mechanism.
Download project files.
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The Mainsoft PetStore application demonstrates how Visual Studio developers can
use Visual MainWin for J2EE Enterprise Edition to develop the front-end of the J2EE
PetStore application using Visual Studio and re-use the J2EE back-end of Sun's PetStore.
Download project files.
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The Issue Tracker ASP.NET 1.1 Starter Kit (available at the
ASP.NET Web site) enables you to track issues (bugs) associated with software
applications. With Mainsoft, Portal Edition, we rehosted this ASP.NET application
natively on IBM WebSphere Portal.
Download project files.
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