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Sun May Join Eclipse Project

Posted by timothy on from the obvious-pun dept.

ebresie writes "It seems with the possible movement by the Eclipse project towards a more independent entity, Sun may join the Eclipse Effort."

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  1. Sun Needs an IDE by fm6 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Sun has always needed an IDE to go with Java. First they tried to develop one in-house, which was a disaster. Then it seemed like they would surely buy either Symantec or Borland just for the sake of the IDE. But the Symantec IDE turned out to be a bomb. And I suspect that the thought of trying to digest Borland gave the Sun people nightmares. They finally ended up buying Forte, but that doesn't seem to have worked out.

    Meanwhile, IBM has quietly pushed Eclipse. I keep getting the impression that IBM understands both the two relevent cultures (Java developers and open-source people) a lot better than Sun.

  2. SWT in JFC by cloudless.net · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Will Sun eventually include SWT into the Java class library? Just about everyone knows Swing is bloated and slow.

  3. Re:Political reason not to ... by KDan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you can't beat'em, join'em...

    Daniel

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    Carpe Diem