Mainsoft Releases .NET 2.0-Java Interoperability Product Suite, Enabling Visual Studio Developers to Code in .NET 2.0, Build for Java & Run Linux

    ORLANDO, Fla., June 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Tech Ed 2007 -- Mainsoft(R)
 Corporation, a leading .NET-Java EE interoperability company, today
 announced the release of Mainsoft for Java(TM) EE, version 2.0, (formerly
 called Visual MainWin(R) for J2EE), a suite of products that enables .NET
 developers to produce .NET Web and server applications that run on Linux
 and other Java-enabled platforms, without having to rewrite their code or
 learn new development skills. Version 2.0 introduces support for
 Microsoft's(R) Visual Studio(R) 2005 IDE, the .NET Framework 2.0, ASP.NET
 2.0 controls, role-based security, and C# generics.
     "Mainsoft's cross-compilation software establishes C# 2.0 and Visual
 Basic(R) as fully supported languages by the Java Virtual Machine," said
 Yaacov Cohen, president and CEO of Mainsoft. "We've invested $12 million in
 technology that transforms Java EE into a multi-lingual platform. Our
 enterprise customers and software vendors de-couple development decisions
 from their production decisions, using the highly productive Visual Studio
 IDE for rapid application development and Java EE servers or portal servers
 for highly secure, scalable deployments."
     Mainsoft for Java EE is the result of the company's four-year
 collaboration with Mono. Sponsored by Novell, the open source development
 initiative is developing an open source, multi-platform version of the
 Microsoft .NET (.NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0) technologies.
     Cross-Platform .NET 2.0 in Practice
     Since September 2006, when Mainsoft released its 2.0 Technology
 Preview, thousands of .NET developers have piloted Mainsoft's 2.0
 technologies, integrating advanced .NET 2.0 and Java technologies into
 unified open source deployments:
     -- During the "Race to Linux 2.0," Hector Armando Rodriguez Esparza, a
        software developer from Mexico, used Mainsoft's Grasshopper 2.0
        Technology Preview and the Visual Studio 2005 IDE to port Microsoft's
        Small Business Site Starter Kit to run on Linux in less than four
        hours.  More than 600 developers joined the international developer
        competition to take open source .NET applications to run on Linux.
 
     -- Urix, Inc., an industry leading predictive modeling software company
        and Mainsoft customer since 2005, is using the Visual Studio 2005 IDE
        and Mainsoft software v 2.0 to extend its proprietary logic and
        analytics calculation engine to open systems, without having to rewrite
        more than 150,000 lines of C# code in Java.  According to Atul Mistry,
        vice president of technology, Urix, Inc., "Mainsoft enables our
        in-house .NET development team to focus on core product innovations,
        without having to worry about the added costs and complexities
        associated with maintaining separate code bases."  A Mainsoft customer
        since 2005, Urix' software is currently running on Java EE servers and
        UNIX at many of the largest US healthcare insurance companies.
 
     -- Janison, an Australian e-Learning technology company, recently
        purchased Mainsoft for Java EE v. 2.0 to customize and localize its
        e-Learning software, written end-to-end in .NET, for the Department of
        Vocational Education in Vietnam.  The department contracted Janison to
        deliver .NET and UNIX deployments by the end of 2007.  According to
        Wayne Houlden, Managing Director, "In the past, our decision to build
        our software in .NET limited our ability to compete for some e-Learning
        contracts with educational institutions where they required their
        application to be able to run on Windows or UNIX platforms.  Using
        Mainsoft for Java EE and Visual Studio 2005, we are free to extend our
        existing .NET systems and skill sets to multiple platforms and support
        customers that use open systems."
 
     -- Opal Future Technologies, a $20 billion pension fund management company
        based in Israel, chose Mainsoft for Java EE, Portal Edition, to
        consolidate eight pension funds and dozens of .NET and Java support
        services into a unified system that runs on IBM WebSphere Portal.
        Opal's .NET development team used Visual Studio to integrate several
        .NET services in a matter of weeks, rewriting less than one percent of
        the code.  According to Alex Libis, information and data security
        manager of Opal, "Rewriting the .NET applications in Java would have
        taken at least 18 months, and introduced unacceptable risk. Using
        Mainsoft's software, our existing .NET team quickly achieved native
        integration with other Java EE portlets, without sacrificing
        performance."
 
 
     What's New in Mainsoft For Java EE
     Mainsoft for Java EE, v. 2.0 is available in three editions:
 
     -- The Developer Edition (a.k.a. Grasshopper 2.0) is freely available and
        designed for individual developers and small group deployments on
        Apache Tomcat.  It includes development and runtime licenses
        free-of-charge and enables developers to create Web projects using
        advanced .NET 2.0 functionalities such as out-of-the box ASP.NET 2.0
        authentication; authorization with a pure Java datastore for
        membership, roles and profiles; and ASP.NET 2.0 controls, including
        master pages, login control, wizard, themes, and data controls such as
        GridView.  To support multi-platform deployments, Grasshopper 2.0 comes
        bundled with the Apache Derby database, a highly portable database with
        a pure Java runtime.  To speed the debugging process, developers can
        use the Visual Studio 2005 debugger to attach the Web application to
        Java and control its execution.
 
     -- The Enterprise Edition is designed for enterprise developers and
        multi-CPU deployments.  It includes an integrated development support
        for IBM WebSphere(R) Application Server and Tomcat; the ability to
        deploy to standard Java EE servers such as JBoss and BEA WebLogic(R);
        multi-CPU capabilities; and the ability to programmatically interact
        with native Java class libraries and directly invoke their class
        methods.
 
     -- The Portal Edition enables enterprises to populate Java EE portals such
        as IBM WebSphere Portal with ASP.NET 2.0 applications and services,
        such as SQL 2005 Reporting Services, in a tightly integrated Front-End
        Service Oriented Architecture.  Using Mainsoft for Java EE, Portal
        Edition, .NET developers produce standards-compliant Java portlets that
        run locally on the Java EE portal, delivering a rich and
        well-integrated end-user environment, with role-based, personalized
        interfaces, single sign-on, unified navigation, inter-portlet
        communications, and other portal services.
     Mono and Open Source .NET
     "Over the last four years, Mainsoft has been a significant contributor
 to the Mono project," said Miguel de Icaza, vice president of developer
 platforms, Novell and the leader of the Mono project. "The team's expertise
 in the .NET 1.1 and 2.0 development platforms and their expertise in open
 systems have expedited our shared goal of making it easier to run Windows
 applications seamlessly on Linux."
     About Mainsoft Corporation
     Founded in 1993, Mainsoft Corporation is a leading provider of
 .NET/Java EE interoperability solutions. The company's product suite and
 services enable businesses to deliver a complete front-end Service Oriented
 Architecture (SOA), with secure, role-based access to .NET and Java
 services. Currently, Mainsoft is helping more than 150 businesses deploy
 Windows applications natively on open systems, including WebSphere Portal
 and WebSphere Application Server as well as on the UNIX and Linux operating
 systems. For more information about Mainsoft, visit
 http://www.mainsoft.com.
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 belong to their respective companies.
     Press Contact:
     Danielle Matthews
     Mainsoft PR
     Ph:  (415) 595-7377
     dmatthews@mainsoft.com
 
 

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