A quick look back at the week

Week 39 brought plenty of interesting developments, enough for this
little roundup. A few examples are the JBoss and JFox J2EE application server releases, the IBM J2EE / .NET study, and a comparison of IDEs.

We’ve already talked about the release of Tomcat 5.5, but fans of this very popular servlet container might enjoy the interview
Dallying with Tomcat 5.5. And while we’re on Tomcat, I have to mention Monday’s release of the open-source JBoss 4.0 J2EE server.

That quick note on JBoss gives me a way into the broader J2EE news. Alongside the JBoss release, there’s the JFox J2EE server from the China Enterprise Open Source Community. A different and much larger community is up in arms in the comments on TMC Completes Massive IBM J2EE / .NET Study, published on TheServerSide.COM. As the saying goes, it was like striking a match over a can of gasoline.

And as if there weren’t enough showdowns, I came across the materials for a talk called Java Technology IDE Shootout. It set out to find the strengths and weaknesses of IntelliJ, Eclipse, NetBeans, Emacs and JBuilder.