Kev's Development Toolbox

IBM announced last week that they have moved the resposibility for it’s Websphere platform products to it’s Rational group, which it purchased about a year ago.

The move is said to clarify the company’s position on it’s products, and will likely lead to tighter integration between design tools such as Rational XDE and IBM Websphere Studio Application Developer.

IBM has says the Rational tools will still retain a 50/50 split between J2EE and .NET

Hibernate 2.1 final was released yesterday – downloads are here:

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Oracle are expected to release the latest version of their J2EE Application Server, Oracle Application Server 10g, today (Thursday 12/11/03).

New features are in line with the expected ‘Grid’ functionality of the new database server, 10g, which is expected at the end of this year.

Oracle’s new Grid functionality allows clustering of multiple servers to improve performance and reliability.

Sun announced this week further details on its goal to provide easier to use Java development tools

The new upcoming development tools will be based on a new version of NetBeans (4.0) which will include a ‘radical overhaul’ of its user interface.

Other support will include integrated support for Web Service and Web Application development.

The new tools will also include various code refactoring tools to help with the development of large projects.