Einar,
I agree with you about the question about the runtimes. In fact I knew this would become an issue inmediately, and although I think that there are differences in the runtimes (.NET and Java) as to be considered third parties or not, it is not really relevant, and this not even mentioning availability. I think you got the intention of my post though <g>
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