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Re: IDE for Java?



It is an old thread...

But a surprising and unexpected development is going to happen in this
field, which changes everything dramatically...

According to rumors (Slashdot still doesn't know about it...) Sun is
going to Open-Source its IDE (NetBeans) this week. I still don't have
any detail about it, of course not about the license (although there
is a chance that this time it will not be Sun's Community license, but
the super-free Apache's/BSD's one!).

If it happens, forget anything about the recommended tools. If Sun
really opens it, expect the legions of Linux/OSS programmers to adopt
it quickly, and even contribute many features to it, so even if it is
not the best tool right now (it is not), it may become the best.

-- 
Eli Marmor

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