Java -> C# translator

Haircut · 13 Mar 2008 at 09:12

http://blogs.ilog.com/brms/2008/03/03/ilog-opens-java-to-c-translator/

Looks like it could be interesting.
While I prefer C# as a language to Java, at present Java has a lot more enterprise frameworks and libraries than .NET does.
A lot of these are open source too, so a conversion tool could provide a way to be able to more swiftly convert some of these into the .NET world.

Visage · 13 Mar 2008 at 10:14

But why would you want to?

Hades · 13 Mar 2008 at 10:21

I'd never trust the converted tool for enterprise work. A bug in the the translator could be catastrophic in a financial company for example.

Inquisitor · 13 Mar 2008 at 10:28

Hades said:
I'd never trust the converted tool for enterprise work. A bug in the the translator could be catastrophic in a financial company for example.

Well of course the converted application wouldn't just go straight into production; it'd be rigourously tested first. But yeah, I wouldn't be that trusting of it either.

stuart38 · 14 Mar 2008 at 08:44

I used one of these on a conversion project from java to c# about 3 years ago and in the end we gave up. The converter was the best on the market at the time but after 3 weeks of trying to compile, fixing stupid conversion issues and errors.. trying to compile, finding more issues.... eventually we gave up and started again from scratch.

I would seriously do some tests to see how effective its going to be on your code before investing a lot of time and effort.