Flower Mound is pleased to recognize its recent showing in the annual Evans Data “User’s Choice IDEs” survey. MyEclipse was recognized as one of the world’s top eight IDEs, along with CodeGear’s Delphi, Sun’s NetBeans, Sun Studio, Oracle’s JDeveloper, Microsoft’s Visual Studio, Adobe’s Creative Suite and IBM Rational Tools. Of note, the top IDEs list included only four Java IDEs.

I have been a NetBeans and JDeveloper user for many years. I have used Eclipse on and off but can’t say that I have ever adopted Eclipse as such. Recently downloaded the new NetBeans 6.1 beta and was impressed. I already had the latest JDeveloper and Eclipse on my machine.

Ajax has been in the limelight for over an year. While interest in the technology is high, there’s still large scale ignorance as regards Ajax solutions that can be implemented in Java applications.
In this interview we speak to Jonas Jacobi, who is an expert in Ajax and JSF. Jonas has some great suggestions on Ajax adoption and also points out common pitfalls that we might ignore in our excitement to adopt Ajax asap.

Oracle’s recent announcement that JDeveloper 10g will now be available free of cost, has sparked a lot of fresh interest in the IDE. In this interview we speak to someone who is in a great position to tell us more about JDeveloper and Oracle’s other products for the Java community.

In this interview, Roel Stalman states that JDeveloper won’t be moving to Eclipse or any other IDE platform. He also tells us what’s planned for JDeveloper and Oracle Application Development Framework, and shares his thoughts on topics like EJB 3.0, AJAX, BPEL and JSF.

In this interview, Debu Panda, the principal product manager for Oracle’s J2EE server talks about the various Oracle products for J2EE.

He discusses the challenges before J2EE and also shares his views on the ongoing JDO and EJB 3.0 persistence controversy.