Summary
What is the future of commercial Java IDEs?

Commercial Java IDEs have had good run in the beginning years of Java. But last few years have been tough for them because of quality open source alternatives such as Eclipse, NetBeans and others.

In November of last year Sun started offering its enterprise IDE for free and now there is a news that Borland wants to sell its IDE product lines, which includes JBuilder in addition to other tools. Now a days, it is very tough for a commercial vendor to survive in the IDE market where there are excellent open source IDEs available.

In my opinion, most of the commercial Java IDE vendors have following choices left

• Sell their business – Of course, somebody should be willing to buy that business.


• Open source their tools and try to make money through support, consulting and training.


• Go out of business.

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Rahul Chaudhary is an architect at a major financial company. Although he has experience in many different languages, he has been deeply into Java over the past few years, having extensive experience with Java, J2EE and its related technologies. Programming is his passion. His interests include Artificial Intelligence and open source. Rahul has a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master's degree in Computer Science.

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