5. Assessment and outlook

5.1 Measures

Language and platform evaluation is a complex business. The aim of this short paragraph is not to evaluate every feature, but to give a few points of reference.

A study published on the PetStore application, which served as an example of the J2EE platform, headlined: ".NET on average 2 to 3 times faster than J2EE" [11]. Not having the capacity to reproduce this study on another significant application, we first compared Java and .NET with regard to method calls. Figure 14 gives some comparative values between Java and .NET on the one hand, and between Java RMI and .NET Remoting on the other, by varying the size of the call packet. For the moment, the various discontinuities...