Comparison of the Java and .Net Platforms

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The two platforms, their programming libraries, their binary formats, and their runtime environments have largely been governed by very different means. The .NET platform as a whole has not been standardized. International standards organizations Ecma International and ISO/IEC define the standard for the .NET executable environment, and .NET executable format, but excluding most of the foundation classes. This formal committee-based standardization process is in keeping with the way very popular languages like COBOL, Fortran and C have been standardized in the past. The standards do not include many new libraries that Microsoft has implemented on top of the standard framework, such as those for accessing databases, or building GUI and Web applications, such as Windows Forms, ASP.NET and ADO.NET.