Retirement of J# language and Java Language Conversion Assistant from future
versions of Visual Studio

Since customers have told us that the existing J# feature set largely meets
their needs and usage of J# is declining, Microsoft is retiring the Visual
J# product and Java Language Conversion Assistant tool to better allocate
resources for other customer requirements. The J# language and JLCA tool
will not be available in future versions of Visual Studio. To preserve
existing customer investments in J#, Microsoft will continue to support the
J# and JLCA technology that shipped with Visual Studio 2005 through to 2015
as per our product life-cycle strategy. For more information

prg123 wrote:
Is this an "official" announcement? If so, could you provide the link
"for more information?"

Thank you.

Yes, it is an official announcement and it was published in MS J# website.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vjsharp/default.aspx

"David" <geckREMOVETHISo (AT) superNOSPAMestrella (DOT) com> wrote

"prg123" <prg123 (AT) discussions (DOT) microsoft.com> wrote


They weren't exactly enthusiastic supporters of this language. It was
already clear they were deprecating it.

Homer J Simpson wrote:

1.1.4. It might have been more useful if current Java 1.5 programs could
have been easily ported and re-compiled in J#.