NET For Java Developers Migrating To C#

About the Authors

Jawahar Puvvala has been developing enterprise applications in Sun and Microsoft technologies for variety of high-tech companies for the past five years. Jawahar is a consultant at Nucor Corporation in Charlotte, North Carolina. It was structural engineering that made Jawahar a programming expert; his educational background is in writing matrix analysis software for mechanical and structural engineering systems in C++. Today, he specializes in client-server and distributed application development in various technologies and languages, including COM+, MFC, ATL, ASP, MSMQ, XML, XSLT, DCOM, SOAP, C++, C#, Java, and Visual Basic. He has published a couple of journal and conference articles on structural engineering.

Jawahar wrote his first enterprise-level application in Java for the textile industry. Although he is not an obsessively 100 percent pure Java programmer, he thinks that it was the interface programming concepts in Java that laid the foundation for his success in COM/DCOM in Microsoft technology.

When he is not working, he spends his time taking care of his house and home network. He can be reached at jawahar@carolina.rr.com.

Alok Pota is a Java addict currently working as a J2EE application developer at Digital Motorworks (DMi) in Austin, Texas. Alok has been developing server-side enterprise applications using J2EE technologies for the past five years and is always seeking out the latest and greatest in Java technology. Before working with Java, his expertise was in writing scientific numerical analysis and visualization software in Visual C++, Visual Basic, and FORTRAN. Alok's published work includes numerous scientific articles on mathematical modeling and expert systems.

Alok began his career in programming by writing numerical modeling software in C++. Coupled with his modeling skills and his interest in the field of artificial intelligence, this experience helped him to write a decision support system based on the expert system shell CLIPS (C Language Integrated Production Systems). When he was introduced to Java, he switched gears from writing scientific software to writing business-related software.

When not reading up on Java or tinkering with the latest APIs, Alok likes to play with his son, Rajiv. You can reach Alok at apota@austin.rr.com.