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?
Oracle joined the Eclipse foundation reluctantly and they have, as far as I know, not released an IDE based on Eclipse.
JDeveloper is more targeted for RAD development or development for software to run on Oracle software (such as JHeadstart) - although JDeveloper is certainly not limited to Oracle software. By the way, JDeveloper is based on a old version of JBuilder (I think it was JBuilder 2)
I, as many programmers, like Netbeans more then Eclipse, so changes are big Netbeans will get (more) support of Ora
I, as many programmers, like Netbeans more then Eclipse, so changes are big Netbeans will get (more) support of Oracle.
I hope so. I've been using Netbeans exclusively since 5.0 or 5.5. I find it to be better/cheaper than using eclipse. Everything I need comes with it and I don't need to buy any commercial plugins.
Agreed, Netbeans is much better than Eclipse these days.
I still have my old install f iles for NB but unfortunately only back to 5. I've used 4 but it seems to be one of the few things I didn't back up. I'd like to archive the all the previous versions but it's near impossible to find them online sadly.
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?
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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.
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Oracle joined the Eclipse foundation reluctantly and they have, as far as I know, not released an IDE based on Eclipse.
JDeveloper is more targeted for RAD development or development for software to run on Oracle software (such as JHeadstart) - although JDeveloper is certainly not limited to Oracle software. By the way, JDeveloper is based on a old version of JBuilder (I think it was JBuilder 2)
I, as many programmers, like Netbeans more then Eclipse, so changes are big Netbeans will get (more) support of Ora
Re: (Score:3, Interesting)
I, as many programmers, like Netbeans more then Eclipse, so changes are big Netbeans will get (more) support of Oracle.
I hope so. I've been using Netbeans exclusively since 5.0 or 5.5. I find it to be better/cheaper than using eclipse. Everything I need comes with it and I don't need to buy any commercial plugins.
Re:What about MySQL? (Score:2)
I still have my old install f iles for NB but unfortunately only back to 5. I've used 4 but it seems to be one of the few things I didn't back up. I'd like to archive the all the previous versions but it's near impossible to find them online sadly.