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Sun Microsystems has earned the displeasure of the Eclipse Foundation over its proposed modular Java specification alternative to the OSGi, for the next version of Java. Ian Skerrett, director of marketing at the Eclipse Foundation, has accused Sun of a lack of openness and using "backroom tactics" to push for a compromise …

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  1. Phil Harrow
    Dead Vulture

    Eclipse = Dead platform, move on.

    Eclipse is a bloated bureaucracy, creating a platform no one wants. I'm not surprised they're upset with Sun, they're lashing out at everyone, and they appear aimless in the market. There's a reason they're losing developers at such a rapid clip, they stand around and complain, while others innovate.

  2. BillPhollins
    Black Helicopters

    Pffft

    Good job IBM and Oracle don't indulge in backroom politics. Eclipse is looking old these days anyway. I'm switching to Netbeans soon.

  3. Aaron
    Thumb Down

    Sad to see it die ....

    Eclipse was a great community efort to start with ... but proved that when no one can agree, or even just let things lie and reach a rational concensus, the whole process falls apart.

    The quality off the eclipse code base is piss-poor now, and for a platform with a pretty good refactoring toolkit, they obviuosly never use it on their own code.

    Writing plugins is nigh-on impossible, with awful, outdated documentation and examples, and the knowledge that your plugin will only work until the next bloated release which breaks it. Plugins for maven, groovy et al are nowhere near the standard for intelliJ plugins, along with alot of people wasting time writing more and more plugin frameworks with no consistency, that are increasingly complicated to use and have faith in.

    Nowadays, when something goes wrong in eclipse, its just best to restart. If that doesnt fix it, either reinstall or rollback to your base version in SVN. Adding stuff breaks ther stuff, error messages never go away, and often cannot be fixed.

    Without focusing on a platform that as its core rquirement is to compile and run some code, i cant see it survivng long now. Actually getting eclipse to do basic things is becoming a nightmare.

  4. Ian Skerrett

    Not an official statement

    Phil,

    I hate to disappoint but the content on my blog represent my personal opinion, not the official position of the Eclipse Foundation.

    Ian Skerrett

    Director of Marketing

    Eclipse Foundation

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  6. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
    Alert

    Hmm.....

    Eclipse looking old? Rumors, I say. But you got me interested and I shall give NetBeans a spin.

    On the other hand, what about JSR 277? I could imagine Sun coming out with a proposal to do something that somebody else already does far better, as happened during the introduction of Java Logging API.

  7. Anonymous Coward
    Stop

    IBM

    funny thing is reading this when not long ago the community had asked Eclipse to be detached from IBM's paws.... I think that attacking Sun for something like this will not help anyone... even less with MS and .net around the corner

  8. Ilgaz Öcal
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    Eclipse? Dead?

    Uh, planet's number 1 cross platform Bittorrent client, Azureus and million dollar making Vuze platform must be using another thing?

  9. goosey

    OSGi == Java Embedded Server

    The funny thing is that the origins/base of OSGI is a Sun project, Java Embedded Server, which was donated by Sun to OSGi around 1999. Unfortunately the OSGi spec is still pretty much based on this decade old architecture...and suffers greatly from those decade old design decisions

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  11. Teh Tom

    Re: Sad to see it die

    > Eclipse was a great community efort to start with ...

    Errr...no, it was a great IBM effort to start with. Anyway, Eclipse is mostly a consortium anyway.

    > The quality off the eclipse code base is piss-poor now, and for a platform with a

    > pretty good refactoring toolkit, they obviuosly never use it on their own code

    Eclipse does suffer from the fact that they promise to keep the API stable. Anything that was API once will remain so. Anyway, publish your code so I can mock it. What part of Eclipse are you talking about? The SVN plugin?

    >Writing plugins is nigh-on impossible, with awful, outdated documentation and

    >examples, and the knowledge that your plugin will only work until the next bloated

    >release which breaks it.

    That statement is just bullshit. Plugins will continue to work unless you use non-API. The documentation of the base platform is very good.

    Sadly, IBM seems to have pulled many of the original core developers off to build Jazz.

  12. Law
    Paris Hilton

    let the flame war's begin

    Pah - Java's dead, long live .NET!!! lol

    Paris - because she's not been used yet! :)

  13. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    OSGi was made for home gateways

    ...and you can't have two OSGi frameworks in the same VM.

    No wonder Sun is trying to do it better and not be hobbled with something that might work ok in Eclipse, but not for the JDK.

  14. Snert Lee
    Jobs Halo

    "Wednesday is dead, I'm switching to Asparagus soon"

    Because it needed to be said. Again.

  15. Kevin Schmidt

    Have you looked at what Sun is doing?

    GlassFish v3 is working to support OSGi (http://wiki.glassfish.java.net/Wiki.jsp?page=PlanForGlassFishV3) as is Project Fuji (https://fuji.dev.java.net/).

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