Um, ok ....I stand corrected. On Dec 11, 10:08 pm, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > "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.
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