Obwohl dieser Artikel nur so von mir verhaßten und äußerst unwahren Klischees strotzt, halte ich ihn für nicht unwichtig.
The Java geeks are geeks. They want to build technologically cool stuff...
hell no. Java developers gibt es of all shape and colors. Warum wird diese Krise nicht benutzt, damit in dieser Industrie mit einigen liebgewonnenen Traditionen aufgeräumt wird, die in den meisten Fällen IMHO alle schädigen.
... Eggheads ... difficult to comunicate with... ... throw some requirements over the wall ... and they will throw a product back after 3 month...
Da könnte ich zum Bakunisten drüber werden. Aber das ist ja genau, was die wollen hehe. Einfach nicht provozieren lassen.
Ok. zum eigentlichen Inhalt. Dies ist genau die von mir prognostizierte Entwicklung der einfacher werdender und produktivitätsboostender IDEs. Und die openSource-Welt spielt da auch mit. Das könnte für einige eine Möglichkeit sein. Aber lest ein paar gute, einfache Bücher zur Begleitung. Nein, kein Data Becker, sondern gute Bücher, die von kompetenten Autoren einfach geschrieben sind. Am besten die von Kathy Sierra und Bert Bates.
Ähnliche Meldungen zu besseren IDEs gibt es auch auf der BEA-Weblogic Seite. Und selbst auf die Gefahr hin, daß dies wieder auf einem Server unter der Spüle von irgendeinem Mitmenschen läuft, der eben nicht immer läuft aber da war noch Platz, der Link zum blog mit dem Link (more fun).
http://crowbar.dnsalias.com:443/crowbar/000237.htmlWir Eclipse-plug-in User haben sowieso in den letzten 2 Wochen aufgegeben, selbst die cool aussehenden neuen Eclipse plugin zu installieren. Ich lade sie mir noch runter, aber wenn ich die auch noch installieren müßte, käme ich nicht mehr zum Arbeiten.
von Internetworld oder so...
Latest WebSphere Studio Puts Java In Reach For SMBs
By Antone Gonsalves
IBM's latest version of WebSphere Studio has apparently taken a big step toward helping small and midsize businesses build web applications in Java without hiring a lot of high-priced developers.
WebSphere Studio V5.1, released last week, contains several rapid application development (RAD) features that include a visual editor for Java and Enterprise JavaBeans and a wizard for generating web services. The enhancements reflect a "major shift" toward meeting the needs of the small and midsize market, said Bob Cancilla, an IBM customer and vice president of IT for a Los Angeles-based insurance company.
"When the tools first came out, they were built by Java experts, for Java experts," Cancilla said. "With 5.1, we're really beginning to see excellent tooling that is simple and easy to use. I think we're going to see an accelerated development schedule where IBM really makes good on its promise to deliver a useful product to small and medium-sized businesses."
Such high praise is expected from one of IBM's customer references. But the problems he faces are similar to other midsize business trying to reap the efficiencies of modern systems on a modest budget.
Cancilla works for a 600-employee company that specializes in workers compensation insurance. Because of company rules, Cancilla agreed to discuss WebSphere Studio on the condition that the name of his organization is not used.
Cancilla's 47-person IT staff includes only two Java experts, and with salaries often reaching as high as $100,000 a year, it's unlikely the company is going to hire more, Cancilla said. Even if the money was in the budget, the insurance company would find it very difficult to hire more people because of the shortage of Java experts and their unwillingness to work on web-based business software for processing insurance policies, payroll reporting and other mundane tasks.
"We're competing with some very major companies," Cancilla said. "And on the other side of the coin, (Java developers) don't want to work for an insurance company. They'd rather work for IBM or some cool software vendor. The Java geeks are geeks. They want to build technologically cool stuff."
WebSphere Studio enables IT shops like Cancilla's to start working with cutting-edge technology such as web services. The tool, for example contains a new wizard that enabled Cancilla to connect a web page to an application that delivered regular updates on a company's stock quote.
To accomplish this, Cancilla pointed the wizard to the application, which was registered as a web service on IBM's UDDI registry, and let the tool generate the necessary code.
UDDI, or universal description, discovery and integration, is a technology that enables software to automatically discover and integrate with services on the web. Besides IBM, Microsoft and other vendors also have published UDDI registries for customers. UDDI, however, is not widely used, although companies are experimenting with the technology within corporate intranets.
WebSphere Studio tools are accessed through Eclipse, a common development environment created by IBM that lets developers plug in their favorite tools from any vendor supporting the open-source platform. IBM has done a better job than other software infrastructure vendors in making its tools work better with other integrated development environments.
"You're not locked in with IBM," said Rikki Kirzner, analyst for market researcher IDC. "IBM lets you use best-of-breed tools within the IBM framework."
Kirzner sees the latest version of WebSphere Studio as providing better tools for large companies, as well as small and midsize businesses. "There are revisions at all levels of the Studio features," Kirzner said. "There's a ton of new features that show IBM is doing its homework and selling some of the best-of-breed tools out there today."
So-called RAD, or rapid application development, features in tools are notorious for locking code to a particular platform -- whether Microsoft Windows or a particular Java application server such as WebSphere or BEA Systems' WebLogic.
But IBM, Cancilla argued, has done a better job than competitors in providing more flexible RAD features. "Maybe the generated code is not as technically elegant as a Java expert might write, but it's still good solid code using best practices in the industry," he said.
WebSphere Studio is available in three versions. WebSphere Studio Site Developer and WebSphere Studio Application Developer ship Aug. 29 at a per-developer starting price of $1,000 and $3,500, respectively. A WebSphere Studio Application Monitor for zOS and distributed systems is scheduled to ship in October.
