Far from my predictions, close to my hopes
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.
Nice,
but lets wait and see…
Press announcements are anouncements only
I saw a lot companies making big announces and time passed
I dont think this is the case but..
Comment by anton
— 28. January 2010 @ 11:09
I agree, words allone don’t mean much… Fortunately, Oracle is perceived as a company that does what it says.
Comment by Toni
— 28. January 2010 @ 15:07
I know, some parts of NetBeans due to their common heritage might even suit JDeveloper well.
Especially Swing (Mattisse) or JavaFX support. If JDeveloper wishes to remain the “strategic” product in their portfolio, it’s got a lot more to learn from NetBeans than it did from JBuilder (1, partly 2) in the last 12+ years.
Unless NetBeans remains the “RIA” tool for those purposes, and JBuilder a more Eclipse-like Enterprise platform (no real Swing support there either, there are plugins for JavaFX, etc.) some of those “gems” may be seen in JDeveloper in some form.
Not to forget, Oracle has got a few IDEs they interited from BEA and other mergers. BEA had a Swing based Workshop 8 and 9/10 based on Eclipse. While the latter was donated to Eclipse in many areas, the older version must have gradually influenced JDeveloper up to the latest version.
Comment by Werner Keil
— 29. January 2010 @ 17:34