Shay Shmeltzer, group manager in the JDeveloper/ADF product management team asks on his blog about the future of NetBeans & JDeveloper: “So how close were your predictions?”
I must admit that my predictions about the future of NetBeans were much more pessimistic. The plan for NB, as much as we know from these wecasts is very encouraging.
Much more detail and insights than in the webcast I watched:
I got the impression that Oracle really have thoroughly analyzed the new entries to their stack. Ted is talking about the places where they want to intensify their work (Java & NB Platform) and the places where community should step in (scripting, emerging languages). That’s a little bit different from the Thomas Kurian story, where we see NetBeans as an IDE for scripting languages, but I guess Ted is closer to the actual technology.
I also like the fact that he’s talking about sharing Plugins between JDeveloper and NetBeans. I do believe this is not only words, because Ted is one of the guys behind JSR-198, a Specification for IDE interoperability that looks conceptually very familiar to NB platform developers.
And the most important part: He’s talking about the platform and the community. So they will eventually support the ongoing focus on the platform. In my eyes every investment in the platform is an investment in the community. Every penny spent here will pay back in contributions. And if they manage to improve, stabilize and document the APIs for language support & refactoring there’ll probably be much more contributions in terms of language support & plugins.
I really for the first time believe, that the Oracle-Sun Deal might turn out to be good for NetBeans. It seems they know better what they’ve got than many people inside Sun…
This makes my day… no… year 
Here’s a slide from the (currently ongoing) webcast about the Oracle - Sun Merger:
Good News, whatever it means in detail. I like the mention of Java EE6. I don’t know though why Hudson is mentioned as a NB technology. Probably because the integration is so excellent that they thought it’s a part of the IDE ;-).
So finally it’s official:
Oracle Completes Acquisition of Sun.
I’ve registered for the webcast.
Looking forward to the software session with Thomas Kurian hoping to hear some good news :-).
For the first time the fotos are available before the course ended. And for the first time we had to do a Panorama shot to get all people on the picture
Thanks to Jacek for creating these great pictures!
One day after the initial announcements 42 participants have registered for our NetBeans Platform Certified Course in Poznan:
JUG Poznań » Bezpłatne szkolenie NetBeans Platform.
So if you want to come, better be quick. There’s only room for 45 people.
There’ll be a NetBeans Training organized by the JUG Poznań next week. You can register here if you like:
JUG Poznań » Bezpłatne szkolenie NetBeans Platform.
I was in Poznań last year for the NetBeans Day. I arrived together with Adam Bien just before our presentations started. It turned out to be a big mistake, because people kept telling us about the great party the night before :-). Looking forward to be there again!
What a nice surprise! I wanted to see my Devoxx talk on Parleys and entered my name in the search field to find out that the guys at the University of Würzburg have uploaded footage they took during our Training there almost two years ago. Here you can see me talking German:
