Not yet!!! But according to their webcast they want to make NetBeans the best Java IDE. This is a statement not to be taken lightly. Oracle are now investing in three IDEs which are all established in different ways. JDeveloper is Oracle's IDE of choice, I am currently using it in my current project as I am developing for Oracle WebCenter. Oracle is also a strategic developer and board member of the Eclipse foundation. I do not understand what exactly is a strategic developer but I know that JDeveloper is their strategic IDE. Now, introducing NetBeans, Oracle has inherited NetBeans as part of Sun acquisitions (and a ton of products and services). Until now, Oracle has never made any plug-ins for the NetBeans platform but now they promise to make it the best IDE for Java, how will they make that happen?I am a NetBeans evangelist and as the rest of the community, it was good news to actually know where it stands in the "Oracle" vision. So Oracle will never drop JDeveloper therefore the real fight is between Eclipse and NetBeans (as it always has been). In the first step of making NetBeans the best IDE, Oracle shold immediately start porting all their Eclipse plug-ins to NetBeans. Eclipse has strength in its alliance which also includes IBM (fierce rival to Oracle). Something has to give and Eclipse will not never close shop because Oracle has left them which is not as worse as lack of investment in the NetBeans community. It would also be a foolish decision to give NetBeans to the Apache Foundation (no disrespect here but it seems that public funds do not grow on trees).
There is something funny about Oracle "choice" statement. Did anybody tried to develop for WebCenter using NetBeans or Eclipse? That's a nightmare!!! There is no choice given, they literally forced us to use JDeveloper (Do you require any Oracle support?) in our company which is the largest in its field in Europe (I am avoiding to mention the company name but you should get it from my twitter stream).
Eclipse and NetBeans are direct competitors with Eclipse being the de facto IDE for Java, dropping Eclipse support would close doors to millions of developers and dropping NetBeans will disaster for many paying customers (Sun's partners). I am not sure what is going to happen in the NetBeans/ Eclipse and JDeveloper saga but something has to give.
Let me know what you think.
Given oracle's record on jdeveloper, things might even get worse on the netbeans frontier.
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I am a big fan of eclipse. having not used netbeans for a loong time, I think having a good competitor on that is up to the task is always a good, that means although I am not using netbeans, netbeans help keep eclipse on a healty evolution phase to keep up with the competition.
What I would wish, is oracle leave netbeans alone and step back like IBM in eclipse case.
As for the jdeveloper, I had to use it only once and I (errr!) hated it. it fells like in 1990's while using jdeveloper.
Regards,
Hasan Ceylan
I 'm still using JDeveloper because of work but today it was quite useful in generating DB diagrams (is there any surprises there?) but I do not find it user friendly. There is disturbing claim by Oracle (pre-Sun) that they had the largest developer community. I am not sure where they got that from but I am sure that now this claim is more than true due to acquiring Sun. I really do not think NetBeans will be alive in the next 3 years if it is third after jdeveloper -> eclipse -> netbeans.
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