"There's talk of opening netbeans"? Whatever are you on about? Netbeans is open already. Has been for quite some time. Have a look:
http://hg.netbeans.org/ No need to ask for anything. Just import the repository and start coding. The forum thread referenced by the OP *SPECIFICALLY* mentions that anybody is free to take up support of SOA, and hints that a sufficiently well engineered and supported continuation of the SOA plugins will be greeted with much help from team netbean and possibly inclusion into the main branch. Team Netbeans no longer has to time to maintain the SOA plugin as they've moved their efforts to supporting j2ee6, which they (probably correctly) deem as resulting in more eyeballs from the enterprise world. They don't all of a sudden decide that they hate you and just to be mean, deep-six the SOA plugin. If the SOA plugin was really such a big driver for big business, then surely it is not beyond their capabilities to contribute funds and a programmer or two to making this happen. On Dec 11, 8:09 am, Randinn <[email protected]> wrote: > > While I agree one should be considerate when posting to public forums, I > > can sympathize with the OP. It's tough when you build a reliance on a > > particular feature, and have that feature pulled on you without advance > > notice. An alternative approach could be for Sun to continue to offer > > the feature in a for-pay model, so users who depend on it can continue > > to use it - and finance it's development in the process. Although I > > suppose Sun would be "hanged" for using bait-and-switch tactics in that > > case... > > > Brian > > There's talk of opening Netbeans (at least by Sun), they can ask for > the code and re-integrate it and quite possibly give back to the > community. There's no reason that if you like a feature you can't work > on it yourself, quite honestly it can be worked on now via plugins but > I maybe a bit far-reaching in my comments. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
