Sun ready to join Eclipse, part 1
By any measure, Eclipse and Sun's NetBeans have both been wildly successful. But from the beginning, Sun and Eclipse have had a strange and interesting relationship; sometimes friendly but sometimes not. Now the opportunity is greater than ever for the two to join forces to fight the powers arrayed against Java in the software industry. Recently I talked with Tim Cramer, director for Java Tools at Sun Microsystems, about this possibility.