Java going towards an Eclipse?
Posted: (EET/GMT+2)
Earlier this week, Borland announced the future roadmap for its Java development environment, JBuilder.
JBuilder has been selling briskly during the .COM years, but not much so lately. The IBM-homed Eclipse project is probably one key component to this, as the Eclipse platform has been gaining a lot of momentum.
Now, Borland announced the forthcoming codename "Peloton", which is basically JBuilder for Eclipse.
What does this mean? To me it seems that all Java development will be soon made with open-source tools, and also the platform will becode more or less open-sourced itself.
So the development world could be more and more bi-polar: open-source Java and Eclipse on the other side, and .NET and Visual Studio .NET on the other.
Who will eventually win, I'm not sure. Personally, I wouldn't mind if the world would say bye-bye to Java. I never learned to like it.