[Mono-list] CLR transmogrifier...

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On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:14:04 +0530
svikram@analytica-india.com wrote:

> Hi,
> I've been taking a good, long look at the IL (Internediate Language) from 
> Microsoft, and been doing a lot of comparison with Sun's Bytecode. I am 
> seriously considering that it is possible to write something that will be 
> able to translate from CLR IL to the JVM Bytecode. The advantages of this 
> would be enormous - leveraging all standard .NET development tools to be able 
> to write Java framework based applications. Don't know how it would work for 
> UI stuff, though. If any of you've considered/done any work on this at all, 
> please let me know if this is a dead end..
> regards,
> Vikram.
> 

A large problem may be the fact that the IL does contain support for unmanaged code, you should be able to translate managed IL code to JVM bytecode relatively easily, what you might try first is going the other way, from JVM bytecode to IL this should be again relatively straightforward.