Introducing the .NET Platform
Paul Gibbons · Apress eBooks · 2002
If C# is the equivalent of the Java language, then the .NET platform is the equivalent of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and the class libraries—not just the standard edition libraries, but the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) libraries. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.