Question

is it possible to say what are the Microsoft equivalents technologies compared to Sun?

For example:

Microsoft                          |  Oracle/Sun
---------------------------------------------------------------
Visual Studio                      |  JDeveloper,NetBeans //thanks justin,danswain
IIS                                |  Apache,Tomcat,Oracle WebCenter,JBossWeb,Glassfish,Weblogic,Jetty //thanks Yishai,danswain
ASP.NET                            |  JSF //thanks justin
SQL Server                         |  Oracle DB, JavaDB(*) ?
ADO.NET Entity Data Model          |  Java Persistence API?
ASP.NET MVC                        |  Spring Framework //thanks danswain
Windows Presentation Foundation    |  Java FX //thanks justin
Windows Communication Foundation   |  EJB (JAX-WS, JRMI, JMS)(**) //thanks danswain,justin,Yishai
ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit               |  ADF Faces,JQuery //thanks danswain,Yishai
Reporting Services/RDLC            |  Oracle Reports Services //thanks Yishai
LINQ to SQL Classes                |  Hibernate project?
Windows Forms                      |  Java Swing //thanks justin
XAML                               |  Java FX script //thanks danswain
CLR                                |  Java VM //thanks Brian

(*) http://developers.sun.com/javadb/ (the ancient Apache Derby?)

( **) as said by the guys there wouldn’t be an exact correspondent

Answer 1

Here are a few:

Visual Studio               |        NetBeans
IIS                         |        Glassfish
.NET                        |        Java (platform)
ASP.NET                     |        JSP
ASP.NET MVC                 |        JSF / ADF
ADO.NET Entity Data Model   |        Java Persistence API (JPA) / TopLink
SQL Server                  |        Oracle DB / PostgreSQL / MySQL
Reporting Services          |        Oracle Reports* / Oracle BI Publisher
WCF                         |        JAX-WS*, JRMI*, and JMS*
WPF                         |        JavaFX*
Windows Forms               |        Java Swing
Windows                     |        Solaris

References:

• JavaFX
• Oracle Reports
• WCF equivalents – There is no direct equivalent, rather there are disparate technologies that can accomplish the same tasks. See comment below for a detailed explanation.