On Jan 27, 9:46 pm, "Vince O'Sullivan" <[email protected]> wrote: > What, exactly, does justify the allocation of > resources? How, for instance, is the allocation of NetBeans resources > to Java justified? What are the criteria that failed to be met by > Ruby?
Oracle has three IDEs: JDeveloper is their "enterprise IDE" with the ADF, a JSF-based framework that I think Oracle uses internally to re-built all its enterprise software on top of its app server. I think it's heavily used by Oracle-Java shops. At least ADF is strategic, so you hold on to it. Then they have the Oracle Enterprise Pack, a bunch of Eclipse plug- ins, from an earlier acquisition. They need this since many (most?) developers use Eclipse, and Oracle wants its app server and databases well-integrated there. But they don't call the shots, and Eclipse is at odds with "pure Java" (SWT, OSGI etc.). And then there's Netbeans as the "pure Java IDE" where Oracle calls the shots. This is the way they can push tool support for new Java versions out, and it's more widely used than JDeveloper in the non- Oracle Java crowd. I can't see how Oracle can solve that problem in the short-term - Oracle obviously neither, so they keep all three though it's one too many. But at the very least they can stop supporting "non-standard frameworks" that directly compete with JEE / ADF and are outside of Oracle's control (Ruby on Rails, for instance). Wouldn't be surprised if Grails supports gets dropped, too - that's from the Spring guys which JEE's main competitor. -- 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.
