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Sun Plans VB-Like Tools For Java

Posted by timothy on from the click-move-done dept.

CokoBWare writes "Sun apparently is trying to create a more VB-like experience for developer. This article from E-Week explains Sun's strategy in providing more VBesque tools for the Java developer. Can anyone say "Good luck Sun, and all the best"?"

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  1. Re:Umm... why? by Gaetano · · Score: 4, Informative

    I work at a Java shop. At a government agency actually. There are a few people to whom anything that looks like C++ is too difficult for them. There are many developers who like java but there are those who would prefer something like VB.

    Those developers who are proficient with java could make the objects that those that aren't as proficient could use to piece together for their customers in semi-programmer business-analyst fashion.

    The business-analysts could stop writing crummy procedural based java code and use the simplified objects that other programmers make for them.

    This is already possible to some extent with java as it is, but for some people that we have here (who should perhaps be let go of, but I'm not in charge) they find java to be too complicated. Anything to make it easier for these people will make java programming more accessible to people with less programming skills which could be better for everybody.

    The

  2. Sun still following BEA by potsi · · Score: 4, Informative

    BEA is already pursuing this.

    The last two versions of BEA's WebLogic Platform included WebLogic Workshop, which is a 'VB Like' tool to make developing web applications and web services much easier.

    They even bought/hired a couple of ex-Microsoft guys to head the development effort.

    Maybe that is why it looks so much like Visual Studio...

    WebLogic Workshop