Well well well. I can see this working well for Oracle - they use Java a great deal... and it should be good news for Sun's open source projects like Netbeans - which would, I think, be maintained under Oracle.
I guess it's a little sad to see Sun unable to continue by themselves, but the writing was on the wall and I think Oracle will keep all the Sun products working, but of course the big question is what does this mean for MySQL?
As of early 2007, when I last used it, JDeveloper still had JBuilder's problem where the menus can't keep up with the keystrokes. Type "-f, s" too fast, and you wind up with an "s" in your (unsaved) code.
What about MySQL? (Score:5, Interesting)
Well well well. I can see this working well for Oracle - they use Java a great deal... and it should be good news for Sun's open source projects like Netbeans - which would, I think, be maintained under Oracle.
I guess it's a little sad to see Sun unable to continue by themselves, but the writing was on the wall and I think Oracle will keep all the Sun products working, but of course the big question is what does this mean for MySQL?
Re: (Score:5, Insightful)
There was a time when Oracle was considering Netbeans [zdnet.com], but Oracle joined the Eclipse Foundation.
I don't think JDeveloper is based on Eclipse though.
Might be interesting to see what happens. I think Netbeans will live on. Too many of sun's products rely on it.
What I'm more concerned with is the amount of contributions to PostgreSQL.
I still feel had they put more money/time into postgresql instead of buying MySQL, they wouldn't need to be bought.
Re: (Score:4, Informative)
JDeveloper was originally based on JBuilder, 5 I believe, but was completely re-written and diverged to be infinitely better...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JDeveloper [wikipedia.org]
Re:What about MySQL? (Score:2)
As of early 2007, when I last used it, JDeveloper still had JBuilder's problem where the menus can't keep up with the keystrokes. Type "-f, s" too fast, and you wind up with an "s" in your (unsaved) code.