Sun is offering its high-end Java IDEs, Sun Java Studio Creator and Java Studio Enterprise, at no cost. Java Studio Enterprise 8 is the commercial IDE, which is based on open-source Netbeans 4.1. Java Studio Enterprise is capable to generate UML diagrams from your source code and vice versa. It has also a built-in collaboration tool that allows better team-work. Java Studio Creator is the Sun’s Visual Basic Studio. It allows you to develop J2EE-App using Java Server Faces as front end.
Sun seems to be doing all the right things lately…. how could the not be the most exciting company outhere right now?
I assume the download servers are overloaded, as a “fatal exception” is shown on the page when you click to download either product. Not suprising, but I’m sure it will resolve soon. Or maybe it is just me, how about others?
Looks like you’re not the only one. A wee bit unimpressive, if you ask me, but I’m going to keep trying!
WOW! I guess with the upcoming release of Netbeans 5 in December, Sun is deciding to let the older versions become free possibly?
Sun just announced the release of Java Studio Enterprise 8 at JavaOne Tokyo. That is the product developers can get for free.
The most recent development tool products are free.
John Clingan
Sun Microsystems
That seems to be related to Microsoft’s release of new tools for free for their .NET platform. This is quite an answer to people telling that .NET is getting ground.
Anyway, this is surely an exciting moment for all developers. These giants need to attract developers to sell their platforms to other corporates. Hence, they need people developing stuff to gain market share.
Sure the Internet turned development from something reserved to elite people with lots of money into something you can start for cheap.
Figures, no Mac version of enterprise, oh well downloading the creator version
Microsoft advertise that their Express version will be availble for free for 1 year. The question is, for how long Sun will let you download it for free. Perhaps this version will remain free while the next will not.
Sun is afraid of Eclipse. 🙂
Actually, I had never though about this before… could the name Eclipse have been chosen because of Sun?
They claim it was Microsoft they wanted to eclipse, “But the name seems so perfect a knock against Sun. How could it not be?” – http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1818233,00.asp
Sweet
Didn’t thought of that.
What have they done to poor NetBeans, they have mutilated it! :O
I just decided to get my java certification.
And I was dumb enough to use my pop e-mail to register on SDN. Humpf! they got my e-mail and I got nothing. I got only fatal exception errors ALL the time.
Fatal exception! Makes sense, free. Humpf! And SDN login interface sucks.
@ least I should have used a crap e-mail like hotmail.