Before I contacted Eclipse, I had IBM's WebSphere and used a trial version of the programmer's book, but because did not put the main energy in Java's development, it couldn't go. There is no in-depth study.
Later, I have exposed to Eclipse, this open source development tool, a great software because of flexibility, I have discarded all other Java development tools after using it for a while, because Eclipse is so good. But there has always been a problem that I feel very strange, that is, IBM's Copyright on the flash screen of Eclipse, and later learned that IBM provides Hundreds of US dollars for developers with Eclipse. Since he already has its own WebSphere as a Java development tool, he supports Eclipse, isn't it in suicide?
Later, I got such a message. It turned out that WebSphere was the basic Eclipse core plus more than 200 plugins. At this time, I started to understand. It turns out that IBM is using Eclipse's excellent developers to work for them. !
Until a few days ago, I participated in a new product introduction of IBM, which introduced a integrated development environment that became RSA, including analysis from the initial demand analysis to the summary design to the encoding so that the final test, A series of tools such as deployment can be said to be a huge thing. However, its advantage is that once a company purchased this product, you can get the fully-developed development environment of a user interface, which not only makes the transition of the developer role becomes very easy, but will not choose again after choosing it. Other company products. It can be said that this product is a tool for the Java developer.
What happened more, this huge environment of this huge environment is Eclipse that IBM has been spending on it. It is using Eclipse's flexible plug-in mechanism. IBM has a very good development environment. !
For this integrated environment, we will always pay attention and believe that there will be a big market. People who are easier to use this product in the future must be the original Eclipse developers.
From this point of view, IBM invests in Eclipse, so that it can survive and develop well. It is IBM into Eclipse; and now, IBM has made a large-handed product with Eclipse, and it is Eclipse. IBM.
IBM is really admiring as a famous big company in the world. When Sun's support for Java, Sun is amazed, this time IBM's strategy makes me a feeling.
