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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, <a href= "http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/28615.html">writes Gavin Clarke [The Register].

Despite the ridiculous sounding introduction, the article in fairly interesting. As I have mentioned <a href= "http://www.rollerweblogger.org/page/roller/20021113#i_really_missed_the_point">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.