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| <h1>NetBeans Poll: Six Predictions for NetBeans in 2007</h1> |
| What does 2007 hold for NetBeans and Java? |
| We have asked six NetBeans experts to look ahead |
| and make predictions for 2007. |
| Our subjects--two Evangelists, an Architect, an Editor, a Writer |
| and a Community Manager--have different ideas on what they think |
| is coming up on the horizon this year for NetBeans and the field of Java. |
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| Read the predictions and then vote on the forecast you most agree with! |
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| <img alt="Gregg Sporar" src="../../images_www/articles/prediction2007/gregg.jpg" |
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| <h4>Gregg Sporar, NetBeans Evangelist</h4> |
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| EJB3 and the Java Persistence API will gain even more momentum in 2007.<br> |
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| There are two things that will help drive this. First, more and more of |
| the application servers will release versions that are compatible with |
| Java EE 5. Second, the tools will continue to improve. To take just one |
| example: as tool support for the Seam framework continues to improve, |
| that will drive Seam adoption which in turn will help drive EJB3 |
| adoption. |
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| <img alt="Yarda Tulach" src="../../images_www/articles/prediction2007/yarda_sketch.jpg" |
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| <h4>Jaroslav "Yarda" Tulach, NetBeans Architect</h4> |
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| The biggest change |
| in the Java world last year, and maybe also the IT market, was |
| Java going open-source. I saw the momentum-there were |
| thousands of people waiting for this to happen. The open-sourcing is |
| likely to continue next year and I am really eager to see the outcome. <br> |
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| I expect that Java will be adopted by the Linux community and we |
| will see a lot of Linux applications written in Java. I hope Java will |
| be part of standard Linux distributions. I am convinced that the |
| desktop integration of Java will get much better due to contribution of |
| Linux communities. Java adoption is going to rise in unimaginable ways. |
| I really cannot expect anything else more important for 2007 in the IT |
| world than the results of open-sourcing Java. |
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| <img alt="Bruno Souza" src="../../images_www/articles/prediction2007/bruno.jpg" |
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| <h4>Bruno Souza, NetBeans Community Manager</h4> |
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| 2007 will be a year that Java and Sun will do a large leap in community |
| participation. <br> |
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| Last year, Sun released many of its software solutions |
| as open-source. We not only saw the announcement of the full Java |
| platform (JME, JSE and JEE) to become open-source under the most |
| recognized license, but also we had the final versions of Java SE 6 and |
| Java EE 5, and both included many technologies and ideas that were born |
| on the open-source community. All that activity will bring a strong |
| positive reflection on the relationship between Sun and the developer |
| community in 2007. Instead of investing efforts to donate code, Sun |
| will invest in becoming a strong participant in the |
| worldwide open-source community. |
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| <img alt="Geertjan Wielenga" src="../../images_www/articles/prediction2007/geertjan.jpg" |
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| <h4>Geertjan Wielenga, NetBeans Writer</h4> |
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| Scripting support in NetBeans is going to open the IDE to a whole |
| bunch of new communities. |
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| <img alt="Roumen Strobl" src="../../images_www/articles/prediction2007/roumen.jpg" |
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| <h4>Roman Strobl, NetBeans Evangelist</h4> |
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| NetBeans will again |
| gain market share in year 2007. <br> |
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| NetBeans adoption has been accelerating during last two years and I predict that |
| this trend will continue. The main reason for increased adoption will be |
| features introduced in NetBeans 6.0 which will focus on increasing developer |
| productivity. There will be many innovative features for desktop Java, |
| support for scripting languages and much more. |
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| <img alt="Leonardo Galvao" src="../../images_www/articles/prediction2007/leonardo.jpg" |
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| <h4>Leonardo Galväo, Editor-in-Chief, NetBeans Magazine</h4> |
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| With the |
| open-sourcing of Sun's Java SE implementation, Java |
| desktop APIs will increase in quality, performance and tool support. <br> |
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| Community collaboration will bring more eyes and hands around the core Java APIs. |
| This will help solve deficiencies found in less-used but highly valued Java |
| technologies such as Swing. <br><br> |
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| type="radio">EJB3 and the Java Persistence API gain momentum<br> |
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| <input value="yarda" name="seer" type="radio">Linux community |
| adopts Java <br> |
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| <input value="bruno" name="seer" type="radio">Sun will strengthen its investments in open-source communities<br> |
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| <input value="roman" name="seer" type="radio">NetBeans market share will continue to grow<br> |
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| <input value="leonardo" name="seer" type="radio">Java |
| desktop APIs improve<br> |
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| <i>Poll closed. Results will be posted February 14th.</i><br> |
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