Mainsoft announced the release Wednesday of Mainsoft for Java EE, version 2.0, which features a suite of products enabling developers to produce .Net Web and server applications that run on Linux and other Java-enabled platforms. Formerly called Visual MainWin for J2EE, the upgrade includes support for the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 IDE, .Net Framework 2.0, ASP.Net 2.0 controls, role-based security and C# gene Mainsoft announced the release Wednesday of Mainsoft for Java EE, version 2.0, which features a suite of products enabling developers to produce .Net Web and server applications that run on Linux and other Java-enabled platforms.Formerly called Visual MainWin for J2EE, the upgrade includes support for the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 IDE, .Net Framework 2.0, ASP.Net 2.0 controls, role-based security and C# generics. The product name was changed to avoid confusion between the product and company name, said Yaacov Cohen, Mainsoft president and CEO.Mainsoft uses cross-compilation to enable C# 2.0 and Visual Basic to be supported by the Java Virtual Machine. MainSoft for Java EE resulted from the company’s four-year collaboration with the Mono project, an open source development initiative providing a multi-platform version of .Net technologies. “We’re expanding the Java EE platform to support multiple languages,” Cohen said. Mainsoft for Java EE is available in three editions. A free Developer Edition, also known as Grasshopper 2.0, is offered for individual developers and small group deployments on the Apache Tomcat Java servlet container.The Enterprise Edition is for enterprise developers and multi-CPU deployments. It supports IBM WebSphere Application Server and Tomcat as well as JBoss and BEA WebLogic Java servers. A Portal Edition enables enterprises to populate Java EE portals. The company announced the product release at the Microsoft TechEd 2007 conference in Orlando, Fla. Technology Industry