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Oracle joins Eclipse

Oracle announces strategy for promoting tools standards

By Paul Krill, InfoWorld, 11/15/02

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An analyst stressed Oracle's attempts to unite the Eclipse and NetBeans IDE camps. NetBeans is a Java-based open source IDE effort. "It's interesting to see Oracle [officials] putting themselves in this position of trying to bring the two proprietary communities that are relevant here, NetBeans and Eclipse, together and cause a standard to be created," said analyst Mike Gilpin, research fellow at Giga Information Group, based in Cambridge, Mass.

Uniting the two camps "could be challenging but not impossible," Gilpin said.

Oracle's Farrell said NetBeans and Eclipse have had the same problems in that both target one vendor: IBM with Eclipse and Sun with NetBeans. Oracle's JSR proposal is an attempt to provide a standards body-approved API that NetBeans did not, Farrell said.

Herring said the NetBeans interface would have to be changed to accommodate the Oracle-proposed JSR.

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Paul Krill is editor at large at InfoWorld.

For more enterprise computing news, visit InfoWorld. Story copyright InfoWorld Media Group, Inc.

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