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Linux Watch: Can Java become an important Linux language?

By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

” On one side, we had Sun representatives making faces at the
IBM-sponsored Eclipse and saying things like, IBM wants to corrupt
Java by forking it. To give their claims bite, they’d point at
things like Eclipse needing its non-Java SWT (Standard Widget
Toolkit) library to run.

“On the other side, IBM made catty comments about how Eclipse
does more, and works far, far faster than NetBeans.

“What was really going on, though, was an old-fashioned business
standards fight. IBM and friends were impatient with what they saw
as Sun’s slow pace and tight control of NetBeans. “

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