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"Project Rave" Beta Released

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the look-of-things-to-come dept.

Glenn Holmer writes "The long-awaited beta of Sun Java Studio Creator (the IDE formerly known as Project Rave) has been released. This is the product that is supposed to make Java development easy (especially for web apps) by using drag and drop technology. It is based on NetBeans and uses JavaServer Faces technology."

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  1. As usual... by Pahroza · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As usual, there is no Mac OS X installer available for the Sun Java[tm] Studio Creator. There do appear to be sources for SteadyState and JGraph. I'm downloading them now, we'll see what I can make of it.

  2. Re:OS X by jilles · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It is pure Java. However, platform specific installers are nice for properly integrating with the native platform (icons, menu items, file associations, paths, shortcuts).

    I can imagine there is little market demand for Mac OS X support and so little incentive for sun to invest time in it. In addition, Apple is a big competitor in the workstation market so SUN will likely prefer that developers use something else. Preferably something where SUN delivers the JVM (linux, solaris & win32) so they can hook into the compiler and sun specific JVM optimizations.

    Probably, it is rather easy to get the thing going on a mac if you know what you are doing so I don't really see the problem.

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    Jilles
  3. Re:Limited functionality, high price? by __aavhli5779 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    WebObjects is not free software.

    GNUstepWeb, however, is.

    And yes, it's a complete clone of WebObjects and Enterprise Object Framework.