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Hello,

Thank you for responding to this topic and repporting an interest in .NET.  The current state is as follows:

- We can provide 4 week evaluations of a .NET version of our Core 5.1 release. Rather than put a download link on our website we''d prefer to have a dialog with the testers, so initially it will only be available on request (by email or forms on website). You can either use the 4 week activation keys available on our website or we can build an Enterprise license evaluation.

- The DeltaXML Core 5.3 release is immenant (this month) and we will build a .NET Enterprise release in addition to the usual Java releases. 

- We will provide .NET DeltaXML Core releases under the same terms and prices as our Java releases, and only for Enterprise licenses initially.  We may provide .NET releases under the named-user and professional-server license terms in future, but we initially need users with support contracts, hence Enterprise licenses only.

Note that these initial .NET releases use the JAXP API and we include some sample code showing how it can be used from C#.  If you need an alternative API we would welcome a description of what you need (please see the initial posting at start of this forum topic).

Thanks,

Nigel

I need this tool to get the diff of two Configuration-Files (XML) for our automatic Build. But I need it in .Net. Since your last entry, are about one and a half year over. Would you please tell me what''s the current State of your development in .Net.

Thanks

We have something of a chicken-n-egg problem here,  we only mention Java on our website, some people do contact us asking if we have a .NET product, but how many move onto the next hit in their google list?  This forum message attempts to, at least partly, solve this problem.

The good news is that we have done a number of prototypes using IKVM.net to translate Java byte-code into the CLR equivalent.  It works quite well!  We''ve also put some effort into resolving some API differences between the JDK APIs (Sun, Apple, IBM) and GNU-Classpath.

At the moment the command-line tools work and you can call the translated DeltaXML and JAXP classes from languages such as C#.  This works well if you have a knowledge of both plaforms.

We would like some user-feedback:

  * please tell us if you need .NET - we need to prioritize our development efforts

  * How do you store your XML data on .NET?  We need to look at some API wrapping/interfacing between the .NET classes and our existing Java classes.  Please tell us which parts of System.Xml you currently use.

  * We currently write fast/memory-efficient filters using the SAX XMLFilterImpl class.  Do you want an equivalent for .NET?  Perhap ''wrapped'' XmlReaders?

Please do leave us some feedback, either here, or by email.

Cheers,

Nigel