Java IDE Technical Preview

A not-so-Anonymous Coward writes: "During a Sun developer 'chalk talk' Thursday, Joe Keller, Sun vice president of Java Web services, said the company will release a preview of the tool, known as Project Rave, that the Santa Clara, Calif., company introduced at its JavaOne conference in June. Sun has touted Project Rave as a rapid application development tool akin to Microsoft Corp.'s Visual Basic. In fact, Sun had its developers study Visual Basic to a great extent while building the tool, Sun sources said. Sounds like .NET is going to get a run for it's money."

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Re:java is dead

[Anonymous Coward]

LongHorn my ass. If you know anything about enterprise applications and building systems that have to support a significant number of concurrent users, you would have first hand experience seeing SQL Server slow to a crawl. What's worse is for transactional stuff, if it is not processed asynchronously one by one, it pretty much dies. I'm not trolling and this isn't stuff based on what some one else told me. It's from first hand experience benchmarking .NET applications I am actively developing. In fact the scalability factor sucks big time. It's great for small and medium sized companies with less than 200 employees. I know for a fact companies like Fidelity are investing further in J2EE and so are many of the top 20 financial companies on Wall Street. Even chris brumme, who works on .NET CLR admits to the weaknesses of .NET. Java isn't perfect by a long shot, but it is far more mature and scales 10x better than .NET. If you don't believe me, go ask why companies like Merril, Fidelity, Schwab and BOA why they use J2EE on their heavy transaction systems. Also, ask them why they kicked out latent zero, Charles river and other windows Order management systems. Simply put, it blows chunks and scales like crap. These are verifiable facts, not some rumor.