There’s an interesting thread on TheServerSide.com right now collecting a list of Who’s Who in the Java world… most of the obvious are there (James Gosling etc) but theres also a lot of other names of people of other lesser known technologies that obviously have gained respect in the community.
Sun to start early-release program for Studio Creator
Studio Creator, formally known as Project Rave, will be available in an early-release version for download next month (April 2004).
Studio Creator is being pitched as Sun’s attempt to bring additional developers to the Java platform, in particular Visual Basic developers, by offering a visual tool to aid development.
IBM to rewrite all Rational tools to integrate better with Elipse
IBM use the Eclipse open source software platform as the basis for it’s Websphere Studio tool set.
Macromedia release new Server-based development tool aimed at Java and .NET developers
Macromedia have released a J2EE based server-side development environment that allows Java and .NET developers produce Flash content for the browser client.
The tool translates server-side Java (or .NET) code into XML which is sent to the Flash plugin in the browser to produce rich media Flash content.