Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced the availability of the first beta version of a new tool that will migrate Java code into C#, Microsoft's proprietary Java-like programming language.

C#, F#, and Visual Basic are the most prominent languages used with .NET: C#: Announced with much fanfare upon .NET’s launch in 2002, C# is the most famous and widely used .NET programming language.

JLCA 2.0, which automatically migrates most existing Java source code to Visual C# .NET, is available for download on the Microsoft Developer site. Move from Sun.

The layout of a typical .NET C# MVC application is similar to a Java Spring MVC application. Based on the Model View Controller design pattern, the first thing we want to do is add a model class.

Whatever choice developers make there is a transition, he said: whether they move from Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic .Net; learn C#, or lean Java. "The Java skills are already there, ...