Today at Microsoft® Tech•Ed 2002 Europe, Microsoft Corp. launched Microsoft Visual J#™ .NET, a development tool for Java-language developers building applications and services on the Microsoft .NET Framework. The launch of Visual J# .NET signals the completion and availability of all the Microsoft programming languages within Visual Studio® .NET, including Visual C++® .NET, Visual C#™ .NET and Visual Basic® .NET. Visual J# .NET provides an easy transition for Java-language developers into the world of XML Web services and dramatically improves the interoperability of Java-language programs with existing software written in a variety of other programming languages. Visual J# .NET enables Microsoft Visual J++® customers and other Java-language programmers to take advantage of existing skills and code to fully exploit the .NET Platform.

"Today, Java-language developers can increase their productivity while building and deploying agile, interoperable XML Web services," said Tom Button, vice president of the Developer and Platform Evangelism Division at Microsoft. "With Visual J# .NET, we're helping our customers solve the complex problem of integration."

Key Features of Visual J# .NET:

Microsoft Visual J# .NET is available for existing Visual Studio .NET customers from either the Microsoft Web site at http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/vjsharp/ or from the MSDN® download area for MSDN subscription customers. Visual J# .NET has been independently developed by Microsoft and is the property of Microsoft Corp. It is not endorsed or approved in any way by Sun Microsystems Inc.