I'm faced with this serious problem that I can't study both of those platforms and kind of need to make a decision (A decision that will affect my whole carrier). These days I've been going through a lot of articles and forums to find an answer, lot of them pointed out that both the platforms offer the same set of tools & technologies to the enterprise developer (in slightly different ways). But about two thirds of the articles hinted that .NET has many advantages over J2EE. And they pointed that JAVA's old "platform independent" story will also be challenged very shortly (ex: mono) by .NET. Okay, the question is, IS THERE A SIGNIFICANT ADVANTAGE OF LEARNING ONE OF THOSE PLATFORMS AND NOT THE OTHER?

I need proof.

Thanks a lot.

You don't must to stady something else from  .NET, because .NET >>>>>>>>>>>>> J2EE. SUN SAID WE FOLLOW .NET PLATFORM. Now you can to make coise from diferent platform. MONO WILL BE SAME WHILE .NET AFTER 4 YEARS.

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Go Bulgaria!

Personally, and in terms of "future investment" for myself and my career, I find .NET programming more promising. Here are links containing reads that might help you http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/compare/ and http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/shared/asp/view.asp?url=/Seminar/en/20011009devt1-30/manifest.xml

My post will not be any differant than all other posts so i wont say anything special...

I can say that both have advantages and disadvantages but i would personally advice of studying both because you will find that each one of them gives a tool that is better than the other languages' tool that serves the same purpose.

Also regarding this MONO project...What i know about it is that it reades the Microsoft Intermediate language and executes it on platforms other than Windows. But originally Microsoft did not want that to happen in my point of view, why? because they only made the .NET framework for Microsoft Operating systems like XP, CE ...etc. while on the other hand Sum Microsystems designed java to have its portability in its virtual machine or Java runtime.

In fact i am planning right now to start getting both MSAD,MCAD and Java certification Associate, Programmer and Developer :).


Regards,
Rakan

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Rakan

I think I agree with you. It's better to be in touch with both the technologies. One of my seniors told me "If you know the concepts, platform is not a barrier". My personnal interest is J2EE though. I don't know why, I just like it (may be because I havn't been around .NET). But ofcourse, now I'm determined to learn both.

Thanks.

I use .NET because it's easy and you can create powerfull aplications on Windows. On J2EE you can create powerfull aplications too on any plataform. The best thing that you can do is to learn both. I love Microsoft .NET.

My english sucks... Good luck everyone...

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Good luck everyone... :-)

If you wanna make softwares at small costs with copyrigths, you'd better study J2EE. However, since .NET technology has been developed very fast, it may give more professional and fast results.