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Monday, June 19, 2006 12:05 PM

JLCA 3.0 – A Perspective: Cheat Sheet unleashed

As I promised, I have posted the JLCA 3.0 cheat sheet for the users on my Blogs. The aim of this exercise has been for the JLCA users to understand the conversion process using the Java Language Conversion Assistant 3.0 and the issues they might face
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Monday, June 19, 2006 11:49 AM

JLCA 3.0 - Usability Features

JLCA 3.0 includes a new set of features to improve the tool’s usability. Special source code analysis has enabled this version to produce better converted code and could produce customized converted code. These new features are the following: Visual Studio
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Friday, June 16, 2006 6:53 PM

JLCA 3.0 - Threads

In Java, there are two ways to create a new thread of execution. One is to declare a class inheriting java.lang.Thread and overriding the method run(). The other way is to create a class implementing java.lang.Runnable and passing it to a new instance
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Thursday, June 15, 2006 6:10 PM

JLCA 3.0 - Java Event Model (AWT and Swing)

Java Event Model mechanism is primarily featured by listeners and adapters used to deal with the different types of events fired by AWT, Swing of the user himself. Most of Swing components use new event types and listeners. Java Event Model is mainly
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Thursday, June 15, 2006 2:53 PM

JLCA 3.0 - Java Accessibility (JAAPI)

Java Accessibility allows extending programs by interfacing application components with assistive technologies -such as speech recognition and audio output- for users having special needs and/or permissions. Accessibility could be featured as a two-sided
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006 12:47 PM

JLCA 3.0 - Serialization

Serialization corresponds with the core and native technology that Java provides to save/recover the state of objects. It is used by other Java technologies inherent in J2SE 1.3. Java provides two kinds of Serialization: Basic Serialization (Java managed)
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Tuesday, June 13, 2006 2:25 PM

JLCA 3.0 - Java Messaging Service (JMS)

Messaging is a system of asynchronous request conducted as event-driven communication layer that allows applications to exchange information in the form of messages. The Messages are transmitted using a Message Oriented Middleware (MOM), an intermediary
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Friday, June 09, 2006 4:19 PM

JLCA 3.0 - Remote Method Invocation (RMI and RMI-IIOP)

RMI provides an easy access to objects on remote machines. The server application registers objects on RMIregistry or a naming service and the client application gets the object’s references on a remote machine. RMI-IIOP architecture is a hybrid between
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Friday, June 09, 2006 4:05 PM

JLCA 3.0 - CORBA - Dealing with Other Languages

Since JLCA only converts Java applications and Java CORBA support is targeted through .NET Remoting, server and/or client applications written in other languages are not be converted entirely. Usually, a converted application could require extensive user-intervention
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Wednesday, June 07, 2006 6:28 PM

JLCA 3.0 - Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)

CORBA is a core part of the Object Management Architecture (OMA), a complete infrastructure for distributed computing. It was developed to merge remote procedure calls and object orientation to achieve support for distributed objects. The standard can
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Tuesday, June 06, 2006 1:06 PM

JLCA 3.0 - Enterprise Java Beans

Enterprise Java Beans define a server side distributed component model architecture that intends to provide solutions for business applications in a transactional, secure, scalable and platform independent way. It provides features like automatic data
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Monday, June 05, 2006 2:39 PM

JLCA3.0 - Java Beans

Java Beans are components that can be controlled dynamically and assembled to applications via visual components. However, they not only have visual uses but they could be used to implement non-visual components as well. They are mainly converted to .NET
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Monday, June 05, 2006 2:36 PM

JLCA 3.0 – Java API’s and Java Technologies

JLCA 3.0 incorporates support to convert J2SE APIs. The APIs are converted to equivalent .NET Framework APIs or Compatibility Classes (Support Classes). Some APIs are either not converted or are converted with a different behavior. Table 5 enumerates
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Friday, June 02, 2006 2:16 PM

JLCA 3.0 - Introduction

Java Language Conversion Assistant (JLCA henceforth) is a tool that provides support for the conversion of software written in VJ++ and Java to Microsoft’s Visual C# .NET and .NET Framework. JLCA 3.0 is the latest version of the tool. It supports conversion
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Friday, June 02, 2006 1:23 PM

JLCA 3.0 Cheat Sheet – A perspective

A lot many times I feel that exhaustive documentation is not available on the Java Language Conversion Tool (JLCA). We have recently been working on the same and in the next few blogs, I would aim to present parts of a cheat sheet for JLCA in the way
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