Hyderabad : In a rare gesture, Microsoft has proposed to christen its latest tool, developed at its Hyderabad centre as "Banjara", a popular tribal community from Telangana area, and also the name of a posh locality in Hyderabad.The product jump.Net, a Java User Migration Path to Microsoft.Net is a revolutionary model, works on a multi-layer framework and was launched here on Thursday.
Jump.Net has a new set of tools to help Java programmers preserve and enhance their existing Java language projects on the Microsoft.Net platform.This platform will support multiple programming languages and provide integration among different languages since there is a need for an underlying platform for making forward frameworks, said Mr Srini Koppolu, managing director.
Jump.Net is an open platform for making Web programmable and consists of communicating and collaborating Web services and based on open Internet standards for developing easy Web services, he said.
This multi-language platform, which has various infrastructure services which are based on Net standards, will support new application requirements by building, deploying, operating and interacting many languages on Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL). This tool acts as a path for Visual J++ and other Java languages to a multi-language platform with the help of a MSIL converter, he said.Highlighting the product, he said in order to revolutionise the whole world moving from single machine to distributed environment and with huge efforts, this project was started two years ago with 30 engineers, out of which 90 per cent were hired from India.
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