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Microsoft pulls stealth release of Java for .NET

Steven Parker CEO - Neowin.net Neowin @aSteveParker · Oct 8, 2001 19:36 EDT with -1 comments

Now you see it, now you dont!

The Register reports that Microsoft has pulled a download that added Java language support to .NET. Microsoft silently made it available on Sunday, less than 48 hours after we reported the news of the project.

A release note, curiously dated October 11 - this coming Thursday - describes it as a beta of "Visual JSharp .NET Version 7.0." From reports The Register received last week, it had the erstwhile codename "Java.NET".

The 7MB file wasn't listed on any of Microsoft's download pages.

But reviewers fast enough to hit the URL have delivered their first impressions. O'Reilly's Brian Jepson has a write-up with screenshots, and Chris Maunder of The Code Project has an overview. Maunder notes that J# support doesn't compile .class bytecode, or support Sun's RMI or JNI.