internetnews.com: Sun Launches Java Tool Community

“Sun Microsystems put its Java Tools Community (JTC) in motion
Tuesday as an answer to its rejection of the Eclipse Project, the
company announced Tuesday.

“But instead of the Java-buster many within the open-source
community feared would happen as a result, core members of the new
organization say they are going to work closely with the
IBM-founded organization.

“Eight companies–BEA Systems, Compuware, Oracle, SAP , Quest
Software, SAS, JetBrains and Iopsis Software–joined Sun in
announcing the JTC as a sister organization to the Java Community
Process (JCP), the standards body for the Java programming
language.

“JTC officials stressed they would be working from within the
JCP to create application program interfaces (API) that better
serve the Java developer community, not split the Java development
community in two. The two organizations, Eclipse and JTC, are not
mutually exclusive, they said…”

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