from http://netbeans.org/features/uml/index.html
"(NetBeans UML Plugin The NetBeans UML plugin is available from the Plugin Manager (Tools > Plugins).)" really? On 11 Dic, 22:30, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > Jesus, Tim. I just finished yelling at some other paranoid nutcase for > blaming this on sun/oracle. Sit down, and listen. > > Oracle hasn't bought sun YET. The SEC would get rather extremely > concerned if oracle has already been telling sun to deep-six a bunch > of FOSS competition, and has apparently done so a while ago, because > stuff like this doesn't happen overnight. Also, considering that > oracle can't get their hands on sun until the EU clears it, and if > there's any hint of official communication by oracle to sun to kill > off FOSS-based competition to oracle projects, well, think about it. > > THEY WOULD BE SUNK. > > The EU would sit there, smugly say: Ha! Told you so, veto to the deal, > and make clear no amount of political pressure is going to change this > answer. This, or even an investigation if that happened, would cost > oracle hundreds of millions of dollars. Most assuredly more than > whatever sales oracle would lose in the few months that it'll take for > the oracle/sun deal to go through now, at which point they can axe > whatever projects they want. > > So, no, oracle did not sabotage SOA, UML, and the visual web plugins. > Duh. > > Secondly, these plugins did exist, and they are open source. If there > is truly such financial benefit in these products, then why, exactly, > aren't the businesses that rely on them putting in some funds and a > programmer or two to maintain these plugins? All they'd have to do is > maintain existing code. It's not as bad as having to start from > scratch. A post on the netbeans forum (check other thread for link) > clearly shows that if anybody else puts in the effort of maintaining > these plugins, odds are they'll find a place in the master > distributions, or at the very least, they'd get whatever help they > needed from Team Netbeans. Team Netbeans has also been adding J2EE6 > support to netbeans, which i'm sure competes with oracle stuff as > well. The fact that you cannot see that this ISNT some sort of > powerplay is mind boggling to me. > > On Dec 11, 2:59 pm, Tim Davenport <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Unfortunatly SOA, UML and Visual Web plugins are unfunded and will not > > be released going forward, > > The conspiracy theorist in me knows that the free SUN, SOA especially, > > solution were as good or better than the Oracle offerings which cost > > 100's of thousands of dollars to license in production. > > The take over of SUN by Oracle has reduced the competition in the > > market, not a good situation and I ask the question > > Why would Oracle fund open source projects that compete with their pay > > for products?? > > > RIP Sun!! > > RIP Netbeans! > > > On Dec 3, 6:31 pm, Jan Goyvaerts <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > figures... not very active apparently. :-( A pity really because it's a > > > great product. > > > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 09:33, Jan Goyvaerts <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > (please disregard my previous message... pressed by accident on the tab > > > > key > > > > again...) > > > > > Hello Java people, > > > > > Does anybody in here knows what the plans are for the uml plugin of > > > > netbeans ? I'm trying to install it on netbeans 6.8 but that's not > > > > working. > > > > And I've got the impression it's not exactly active these days... > > > > > I really hope it's going to be released for as long as Netbeans'll > > > > around. > > > > > Jan -- 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.
