[Mono-list] CLR transmogrifier...

[A Rafael D Teixeira]

>From: svikram@analytica-india.com

>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.

Personnaly, I think that the main problem is the huge class libraries, that 
are very different.

Also some things like Delegates and Attributes may be very hard or suffer 
from performance issues in a JVM.

Even on the bytecode front, there are things like boxing/unboxing that may 
prove harder to achieve appropriate performance with Java Bytecodes.

Rafael Teixeira
Brazilian Developer



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