Re: [opensuse] Mono 1.2 Supports WinForms

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Kai Ponte wrote:
In light of the recent agreement with MS and Novell, this is interesting to
note on this list. I don't know how many of you use Mono, but it is worth
noting.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061109-8190.html

http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2/

"An important milestone leading up to Novell's goal of .NET 2.0 support, the
inclusion of the WinForms API in Mono 1.2 significantly simplifies the
process of porting .NET applications from Windows to Linux and other
supported platforms. Developers can now use WinForms to produce
cross-platform compatible user interfaces for .NET applications."

Umm... Well, nice, but AFAIK WinForms is not anywhere near being part of
the ECMA "standard" (as isn't ASP.NET).
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa569283.aspx
http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread48750.html

...
The cool thing about this, is that I can compile it in either Linux or
Wintendo and it will run in both. I've copied the resulting .exe file to my
pen drive and ran it directly on Win2K and WinXP systems.

...but then Java does the same thing, right?

Indeed, and with Java it's actually part of a standard.
Not only Swing, but also Servlet/JSP/JSF (web presentation layer), EJBs
(remoting components), JMS (pub-sub and point-to-point messaging), JPA
(ORM persistence), ...... and tons of JSRs as part of the Java Community
Process: http://jcp.org/
That's definitely a huge difference between Java and .NET ;)

I mean, Sun has TCKs to validate that standard implementations (e.g.
Tomcat's or Jetty's Servlet impl, or JBoss' JPA impl) do comply.

As WinForms and ASP.NET are no standards but proprietary (and belonging
to MS), there are at least two issues:
- - who/what is going to validate Mono's implementation as compliant with
WinForms ? well, the developers, by testing... um..
- - who/what will guarantee there won't be a lawsuit against Mono because
they're implementing a proprietary API that belongs to MS ? a deal... ?
possibly ;)

cheers
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