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Eclipse yanked back in.

An IBM-backed Java tools initiative could be yanked back into Sun Microsystems Inc's sphere of influence, to heal a potential community rift, through efforts lead by Oracle Corp, writes Gavin Clarke [The Register].
Despite the ridiculous sounding introduction, the article in fairly interesting. As I have mentioned before, Oracle is pushing for a standard IDE plugin-API so that Eclipse does not become the universal standard tools platform. However, this doesn't line up with that effort:
"[Members] want to drag Eclipse back in-line with Sun... SWT versus Swing has put some tension in the organization." [Ted Farrel, Oracle]
He can't be suggesting that IBM rewrite Eclipse using Swing, that would be crazy, so he must be suggesting that SWT becomes part of Java.
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... so he must be suggesting that SWT becomes part of Java. Geeze I hope so. After using SWT recently I wouldn't want to go back to swing.

Posted by Kevin on December 18, 2002 at 03:46 PM EST #

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