May be I missed something, but looks like Travis Bright is converting Apache Xerces XML parser to .NET. I wonder what for? Aha, he's PM for the Java Language Conversion Assistant (JLCA). That explains....

Xerces.NET hardly, but I do try to convert interesting and useful projects (in my spare time). If you have read through the previous posts about the JLCA not supporting 3rd party libraries then you imagine how many of our customers are effected by this. The .NET Framework has wonderful XML support, but the JLCA only maps Sun’s Java XML so I thought our customers that developed products that depended on the Jakarta libraries (which were the de-facto standard for so long) would be interested in this. Plus this is a decently large and complex project that has few dependencies on other external libraries allowing me to convert this without converting anything else. I thought a walk through of a conversion like this would be interesting to you guys. I am not posting the C# code for a number of reasons; including download size and the non-production quality of my conversion. (I did minimal testing after the conversion to verify that I was “done”, but since this was intended as a walk through and not a production migration I would worry that someone would assume full functional equivalency no matter what warnings I put at the top of the files.)

I think it's great for JCLA users to have a Jakarta reference project which would help converting other 3rd part libraries (like log4j which is used in almost _every_ java project). I signed up for the betatest program for JCLA 3, but I never got any feedback (been a week now). It would be great to try converting some of my clients projects written in Java. Some of them are quite complex using JDBC, JavaComm, JDOM (XML), Quartz, internal databases (HSQLDB), Velocity and JMS (SonicMQ). The application is a multi-threaded program to handle 50+ modems concurrently, queueing data through JMS, in a total of 6 applications). Some of the applications would be need to be replaced, like JMS (SonicMQ) to MSMQ, internal database to either Access or SQL Server, JDOM to MSXML etc..

By the way, will JCLA 3 handle awt package MouseScroll events?

However, no reply from beta.microsoft.com. :/

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