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Thursday Jan 28, 2010
Sun + Oracle, NetBeans, Glassfish, JavaOne and the Death of Kenai
JavaOne will take place in San Francisco from September 19-23, 2010 - so I was semi right :-). Most of the questions are answered here. kenai.com will be killed. What is a pity - it is/was a great platform with mercurial support. Glassfish, however, will be also commercially supported by Sun/Oracle.
Posted at 12:34PM Jan 28, 2010 by Adam Bien in General | Kommentare[5]
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Really bad news. I just discovered kenai.com while following your blog for a while and the integration of kenai.com into NetBeans. What platform will replae kenai.com in the future?
Gesendet von Andre Fuechsel am January 28, 2010 at 02:09 PM CET #
Doesn't sound very good for NetBeans.
http://washingtontechnology.com/Articles/2010/01/28/Oracle-Sun-intergration-plan.aspx?s=wtdaily_290110&Page=1
# NetBeans: Kurian referred to Sun's well-loved integrated development environment as a "lightweight" Java IDE. He said Oracle plans to focus NetBeans on dynamic scripting languages, such as PHP and Python, while supporting its JDeveloper IDE as its strategic development environment. "There really is no need to do scripting in a Java IDE," said Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. "This might just be a way of sunsetting NetBeans."
# Glassfish: Sun's Web app server will continue to get support from Oracle, but it will be offered primarily as a departmental solution, Kurian said, while Oracle's own WebLogic Server will continue to be marketed as the enterprise solution.
Gesendet von BryanY am January 29, 2010 at 04:58 PM CET #
Hi Adam, do you have better news then the ones posted above? If the article cited by BryanY is correct, it turns out at the end that the deal will have bigger effort on the Java community than initially thought. I mean, NetBeans is nearly as popular as Eclipse and Glassfish is a widespread and well-respected AppServer - is Oracle really planing to shut down both? Can't believe it.
Gesendet von Andre Fuechsel am February 01, 2010 at 03:56 PM CET #
Oracle announced that they will keep Glassfish as the official reference implementation for Java EE.
But the future of NetBeans is very uncertain.
Gesendet von BryanY am February 01, 2010 at 05:04 PM CET #
Yes, but Glassfish is more than just a reference implementation. It is production ready, stable and proven. I understand that Oracle doesn't want to promote two JEE AppServer as they already have the BEA server. Still I would like to see that the GF server gets the same support like the BEA server. May the better succeed.
Gesendet von Andre Fuechsel am February 02, 2010 at 10:43 AM CET #