The AWT/Swing approach creates identical presentations, regardless of the operating system. For example, an application that presents order status from a customer care application would look the same to a Windows XP, Macintosh or Linux computer
I don't think I'd go that far. It would look and behave SIMILARLY, but there are plenty of quirks and differences.
Truth be told, there needs to be one major and defining IDE that the community can rally against. Currently that's Eclipse, but that's IBM run, so the other companies are a little cautious to give IBM any credit.
All this infighting was inevitible and it sounds like Java might turn into CORBA, a dead-locked technology that never got anywhere because none of the companies could agree on anything.
Not suprisingly, CORBA was supposed to be a Microsoft COM killer. It looks like Oracle, BEA, IBM, Sun, et al are scrambling to turn Java and this new IDE into a .NET and VS.NET killer. I predict they will fail with similar fates.
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