This appendix is a reference to Java, including the JDK1.5 and C# languages. In previous chapters, we discussed integration-ready and knowledge-connected environments that allow for writing application scenarios. In spite of the fact that most examples that support this method are made in Java, similar environments can be created with other languages. Life outside of Java is not as much fun, but it is still possible.

This appendix provides examples in which the same function is implemented not in Java but in its easiest replacement—the C# language.

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Java and C# are similar in their language structure, functionality, and ideology. Learning from each other and growing stronger in the healthy competition the siblings perfectly serve the software world.

JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINE AND COMMON LANGUAGE RUN-TIME

Java compilation produces a binary code according to the Java language specification. This binary code is performed on any platform in which a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is implemented. The JVM interprets this binary code at run-time, translating the code into specific platform instructions.

C# compilation (through Visual Studio.NET) can produce the binary code in Common Intermediate Language (CIL) and save it in a portable execution (PE) file that can then be managed and executed by the Common Language Runtime (CLR).