Re: An interesting move on IBM's part

["David Morris" <David.Morris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jon,

Thanks for clearing that up. I have searched high and low in all of the
Eclipse whitepapers, articles, and the newsgroup for a mention of
Code/400 and what you are saying is great news. That makes Eclipse
something to look forward to. At this point I need to replace VAJ due to
the lack of support for the 1.3 JDK and have been filling in with NetBeans
when necessary. The VCE not being there is OK and I understand that
one is being built as an add on. However, I will dearly miss the debugger.
I already miss Code/400's editor in VAJ so that is not a problem, and real
support for CVS will certainly fit our environment much better than VAJ's
Team Repository.

David Morris

>>> Jon.Paris@Partner400.com 11/05/01 04:35PM >>>
 >> I may be missing something, but it seems quite a step backward from
Code/400, VisualAge Java, and WebSphere Studio, which I believe it replaces.

What you are missing David is the correct tense in your statement.  It
should be "which I believe it _will_ replace."

Code/400 (a new version) and all the other tools will be integrated into the
new Eclipse based IDE over the next 12 months or so.  Undoubtedly some
features (notably in VAJ which I believe will not have the visual
composition piece initially) will step backwards a bit for a short period
before they are fully integrated.

Jon Paris
Partner400