Month: February 2006

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End of the road for Borland’s JBuilder IDE?

Borland has annouced that it is going to pull out of the Java IDE business, to concentrate on it’s suite of design tools instead.

JBuilder has long been one of the dominant IDEs but maybe it has reached the end of the road with strong competition from Open Source (and free) alternatives like Eclipse and Netbeans. Both of these have developed a huge user base in the last few years. Coupled with a few plug-ins you can have a very full featured IDE for free, which surely puts the pressure on IDE vendors such as Borland.

So, the future for JBBuilder looks bleak, unless someone buys up the code and rights to the product from Borland?

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Prefactoring – Ken Pugh

Ken Pugh has a booked titled Prefactoring, which following in the same style as the classic Refactoring book by Martin Fowler. Instead of identifying ‘code smells’ after the code has been written and modifying the design and implementation to remove poorly designed/implemented or unmaintainable code, Pugh’s book gives a set of guidelines for mistakes to avoid before you start coding.

Pugh has an overview of the book on the Artima website.

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More Java podcasts

OnJava.com have a second part to their ‘The Java Podcasters’ article, interviewing other people who are currently producing Java technology based podcasts. I haven’t listened to any of these yet, but here’s the ones covered in part 2 of this article:

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