J2EE Web Services Versus .NET

Microsoft's answer to J2EE Web Services is its .NET Web Services. Table 22.1 compares the technologies used in J2EE and .NET.

Table 22.1. Comparison of Technologies Used in the J2EE and .NET Web Services Framework

	J2EE	.NET
Runtime environment	Java Virtual machine	Common Language runtime
Web Services	ebXML/UDDI/SOAP	SOAP
Standards (finalized by organization)	OMG	ECMA
Method of intercommunication	IIOP, RMI, XML, SOAP	SOAP, XML
Method of data persistence	JDBC, XML	ADO+, XML
Components on server side	EJB, JSP	ASP+, COM+
Core programming languages	Java	VB.NET, C#, J#, COBOL

You should consider the following factors when selecting a framework:

• The freedom of standards offered by the framework to the existing network in the organization

• The number of platforms that the framework can successfully deploy in your organization's network

• The number of languages that can run on a single platform

• Required speed of development of your application

• Extent of reusability

• Performance

• Reliability of the code developed

• The scalability of the code

• What fits with your organization's existing technology