>>>Simon,
>>>Java is actually miles ahead of .Net as far as data integration is concerned. Look at a product called Hibernate which allows you to seamless treat data as objects.
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>>Is that anything like NHibernate for .NET? <g>
>
>nHibernate is the .NET port of Hibernate...
>

Yeah, I know. I was trying to poke fun at the idea that Java's data handling was much better than .NET's since Hibernate is available for both platforms.