only time will tell, but the marketing sounds good to me. sun announced project rave yesterday, which seems to be their foray into providing an integrated development environment for the java language and j2ee platform.
i've managed development teams who used both j2ee and .NET, and the one thing that has always stood out about microsoft's approach is the integration of the toolset and the language. they owned and developed both, so there was never a lag between language features and the tools that supported them. on the j2ee side of things, there was always a choice of which environment to use, to the point where it was hard to find two developers using the same toolset. this is neither good nor bad, as long as developers were productive, and we didn't have to waste time or money discussing such things.
of course, there also aren't many (any?) third party IDEs for .NET, so it remains to be seen whether this will hurt vendors like Borland, whose JBuilder offering has been one of the best games in town for large development teams who do choose to standardize on an IDE.
if anyone gets early access to project rave, or have your own opinions, feel free to comment here!
Posted by Steve at September 18, 2003 02:47 PM | TrackBack