.Net has always seemed to me to be more or less Microsoft’s answer to Java, and always just a little bit behind. And now it seems that .Net has finally hit its EJB controversy, with the Entity Framework. This is all the sadder because .Net developers have (a) had the long and tortured history of Java’s object-relational efforts to use as a cautionary example and (b) ports of ubiquitous Java ORM tools like Hibernate already exist for .Net. Still, we learn by doing, you know? Software Development