Use VS. NET to develop applications running on Linux Apache Tomcat

Mainsoft released Grasshopper 2.0 Preview. According to official introduction, you can use. net 2.0 technology to develop web applications and run them on the tomcat server.

Grasshopper 2.0:

• Extends Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 IDE to create Tomcat applications that can be run on Linux, Windows, and any other Java-capable operating system.
• Supports ASP. NET 2.0 with pure Java membership, roles, and profile providers, with all the ASP. NET 2.0 new features such as master pages, themes and skins, wizard control, login controls, and data-bound controls such as GridView and TreeView.
• Supports Anthem. NET to create robust, interactive Web applications based on AJAX and Grasshopper.
• Brings the C # and VB versions to the Java platform by compiling Microsoft IL code into Java bytecode.
• Implements the. NET Framework 2.0 functionalities in the Java EE environment, including Web Services 2.0, ADO. NET 2.0, XML, System and Core library 2.0 functionalities.
• Extends Visual Studio. NET's debugging to Java EE, so you can attach your Web application to Tomcat and control its execution.
• Maintains a single source code for both platforms.

With the Grasshopper 2.0 Technology Preview, you can easily create new ASP. NET 2.0 applications for Tomcat and port existing ASP. NET 2.0 applications from. NET to Tomcat, using C # and. NET Framework, and without worrying about forking sets of source code. and you can port your ASP. NET 2.0 application without learning to use a new development tool, or having to write a line of Java M Java code!

If it is really feasible, it is estimated that most java programmers in the world should switch to. net.