Here’s a video interview I did with Oved Yavine, Director of customer services at Mainsoft. He talks about Mainsoft for Java EE, Portal Edition, and how you can use Visual Studio 2005 to develop ASP.NET apps that run natively on WebSphere Portal as JSR-168 Compliant portlets:
Here’s another vide that we’ve shot featuring Noam Lampert (Head of R&D) and Roei Erez (Core Team Lead). I’m Using Viddler to show this video so let me know if you have any problems watching it in the comments.
(If it says “loading” for a long time, clicking on the “Progressive” word on the bottom of the movie to change it to streaming mode)
Topics in this video:
What’s the idea behind Grasshopper
How does Grasshopper work?
What types of challenges do you encounter when trying cross-compile (translate) .NET IL code to Java Bytecode?
What does the future hold for Grasshopper?
(for example .NET Generics Vs. Java Generics)
(or 3rd party dependencies you need to convert)
what kinds of tests do you have?
Stuff I should worry about as a .NET developer that is compiling using Grasshopper
What are you working on right now?
I’ve also added a Grasshopper TV Logo animation to start out the video (I used Sony Vegas to edit it and add the various TV related effects, although the actual logo was done by our graphics artist)
“This 10 minutes demo starts with an introduction to the Mainsoft for Java EE Portal edition benefits and a high-level description of the of solution architecture. It continues with a practical product tour that demonstrates how you can use Mainsoft for Java EE Portal Edition to develop, debug and deploy ASP.NET applications from Visual Studio 2005 into WebSphere Portal as JSR 168 portlets”
Note that this video is completely new and is more up to date than the older WebSphere related video we have up.
Here’s a video demoing using the Mainsoft technology to cross compile an ASP.NET site for use with the WebSphere Portal. The video is actually using Visual Studio 2003, but the same holds for VS 2005 and .NET 2.0.
This one is a bit “out there” but it’s worth showing just how crazy passionate some of the folks here are.
Rafael Mizrahi, QA Manager at Mainsoft , who’s also a known GarageGeeks member , plays true to his nickname, and hacked together a Wiimote powered Visual Studio Debugger. So the same remote that allows you to play Virtual Tennis in Nintendo Wii can now be used to debug and step into your .NET code, and of course, your Java code from .NET using Grasshopper, the developer’s edition of Mainsoft for Java EE.
