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Sun Drops Bid To Join Eclipse

Posted by simoniker on from the puns-aplenty dept.

ilovestuff writes "According to ZDNet, Sun Microsystems has decided not to join the Eclipse open-source tools effort backed by rival IBM. In addition to dropping the plan to join Eclipse, Sun said Wednesday that it will no longer try to merge the Sun-sponsored NetBeans.org open-source Java tools project with Eclipse. The Eclipse open-source project, founded by IBM in 2001, is an IBM-owned consortium which has gained the membership of several development tools companies over the past year."

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  1. Re:No loss by Lao-Tzu · · Score: 4, Informative

    The difference is significant, actually. For example, the Aqua look and feel has been considered one of the most complete Swing L&F engines. However, the file chooser dialog looks the same in a Swing application running in Panther as it did running in Jaguar. And in fact, it does not resemble neither Jaguar nor Panther's file open dialog.

    The new implementation of tabs (NSTabView/JTabbedPane) in Panther is a row of buttons instead of tabs. The buttons do appear in a Swing application using JTabbedPane, _but_, the inside of the tabbed pane is only partially shaded when it's supposed to be entirely. This looks terrible since it's partially native but not-quite-there.

    Eclipse's SWT has neither of these problems, nor does it have dozens of other problems that Swing has in Aqua.