A First Look At Red Hat Developer Studio
juanignaciosl writes "The first beta of Red Hat Developer Studio was published yesterday. RHDS seems promising. This IDE is a bunch of Eclipse plugins that comes from the fusion of JBoss IDE and Exadel Studio. The main advantages it offers are: JSF development improved, in particular integrating RichFaces and Ajax4JSF libraries; Seam (next J2EE middleware standard?) integration; and plugins for JBoss, Hibernate... Here are my first impressions."
I think the most frustrating thing with Java is how many things they did wrong in early versions that we have to deal with today. It's an extremely confusing language to learn from scratch because for everything that doesn't make sense, someone has to give you a history on why it's done that way. I agree that half of Java has been marketing (but hell, half of .net is marketing too!). It really is an amazing language with a very rich set of API's provided by Sun, don't get me wrong. I just think Java has such a bad history it may never recover from all the preconceived notions it is currently entangled in.
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