Article:		A Vision for java.net
Subject:		Does this vision include SWT, JBoss and Eclipse?
Date:		2004-06-10 05:06:00
From:		jwenting
Response to: Does this vision include SWT, JBoss and Eclipse?
1) SWT is IBM and not natively platform independent (iow, relies on platform specifc APIs for rendering). The first is reason enough, the second is sacrilege. 2) JBoss is overly complex, not nice people, etc. etc. plus they're a competitor. 3) Eclipse is in competition with Netbeans and more importantly Enterprise Studio. It's also endorsed by IBM and refuses to have itself merged into the fold of Netbeans which is sacrilege. I agree that the statement "Eclipse is crap" is extremely hostile (quite besides being untrue). Personally I prefer Eclipse to Netbeans any day because it's easier to use, performs better and doesn't have feature bloat in areas I don't need.