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Borland Releases JBuilder to Eclipse

Posted by Zonk on from the now-available-for-poking dept.

ricochet81 writes "The Register is reporting that Borland has released the base version of JBuilder as open source on Eclipse! Is this just the next company to use open source as part of a marketing tool, akin to Sun, IBM and Oracle's opensource IDE push? Is the future of enterprise IDE open?"

2 of 243 comments (clear)

  1. Incorrect News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Theregister is inccorect.

    Posted by Borland Developer Relation at borland.public.delphi.non-technical newsgroup
    or
    http://newsgroups.borland.com/cgi-bin/dnewsweb?cmd =article&group=borland.public.delphi.non-technical &item=490600&utag=.

    Taking that information and stating that "JBuilder is now open source" is extremely irresponsible, in addition to being plain wrong.

  2. Re:What the hell is eclipse? by pringlis · · Score: 5, Informative

    Eclipse is, at the very base, a platform. All but the most basic functionality (including the Java Development Environment which most people associate with Eclipse) is supplied by plug-ins. Users can create plug-ins to associate with the Eclipse work bench or any other Eclipse plug-in.

    Basically to realease something "onto" Eclipse means that it is released as a plug-in for Eclipse. JBuilder provides functionality into the Eclipse platform which users can utilise.