Mainsoft Grasshopper 2.5 (Aug 25, 2008)
Mainsoft Grasshopper 2.5 (Aug 25, 2008)
Grasshooper 2.5 is a Visual Studio 2008 environment Plugin developed by Mainsoft, freely downloadable at dev.mainsoft.com, which transforms .NET applications into any Java platform including Linux. Difference between other visual studio plugins and Grasshopper 2.5 is that it runs on top of Tomcat. The technologies that Grasshopper 2.5 supports include ASP.NET 2.0 and the AJAX extensions, the AJAX Control Toolkit, new language features for C# 3.0 and Visual Basic 9 etc.
Mainsoft Developer Edition of Visual Studio Plugin has two specifications for enterprise developers that delivers .NET-Java interoperability -
Enterprise Edition: It provides support for large enterprise groups such as WebSphere Application Server and Tomcat working in an IDE environment with Java EE platform like JBoss, Weblogic etc.
Portal Edition: It includes a Visual Studio SDK that helps .NET developers to create Java Portets based on JSR 168 that run on WebSphere Portal Server.
Grasshopper 2.5 includes features of both the above mentioned editions and is specifically developed for small user groups to help them deploy their applcations on Apache Tomcat Server comprising a single-CPU.
Some of the key features of Grasshopper 2.5 are -
MSIL-Java Compilation: It provides a cross-compiler based on ECMA (334, 335) and JVM specifications that transforms the Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) codes to Java byte codes.
Visual Studio Intregration: The visual studio integration in IDE environment makes development on the Linux platform easier and faster.
Support for Access to External Java Environment: It provides the facility to access the external java component codes that might be basically developed in a different java environment. It also provides the facility to access and use the JAR (Java Archive) files from C# or Visual Basic codes.
This product is based on open source technology with the .NET framework as the foundation on top of Apache Tomcat.
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