IDEs and Tools

Borland
"Sun continues to push the Java performance envelope with J2SE 1.4. More and more enterprise applications are being built on the J2EE platform, making reliability and scalability absolutely crucial," said Tony de la Lama, vice president and general manager of Java solutions for Borland. "We think developers will greatly benefit from the many performance-oriented improvements included in J2SE 1.4. As we work closely with Sun to build on the 1.4 foundation, Borland continues to improve team productivity and time-to-market for our customers with JBuilder and Optimizeit, our award-winning Java development solutions."

Forte
"The Forte for Java IDE is itself a 100% Java technology application, so we are excited about the gains we've seen in the runtime performance of JFC/Swing-based applications under J2SE 1.4. In addition, the Forte for Java product is designed to make developers more productive; with J2SE version 1.4, we see a whole new class of enterprise, scalable applications that can be built by leveraging the new I/O features and support for 64-bit architectures. All in all, we view J2SE as a significant step in the continued evolution of the world's most open, secure and robust platform for development." - Peter Young, Vice President, Forte Tools, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Metrowerks
"As a leading provider of development tools for both J2ME and J2SE, Metrowerks is pleased to support this newest release of Sun's Java SDK. The added security and scalability features this newest release offers will allow developers to create mission critical enterprise solutions." Said John Smolucha, VP of Marketing, Metrowerks

Oracle
"The Oracle9i JDeveloper environment is one of the most sophisticated graphical Java applications available today," said Christophe Job, Vice President of Application Development Tools, Oracle Corporation. "Therefore we are very excited about J2SE 1.4 and its major improvements in graphical performance. Users can develop J2SE 1.4 applications with Oracle9i JDeveloper and take full advantage of new J2SE 1.4 features such as the assert facility, asynchronous I/O and Swing performance improvements."

Sitraka
"Sitraka is committed to offering advanced Java diagnostic solutions and we're pleased to support J2SE 1.4," said Lee Garrison, vice president of marketing for Sitraka. "From valuable new developments to the core framework, to increased usability of the client and server APIs, J2SE 1.4 is a compelling advance for Java technology. Sitraka JProbe, JClass and DeployDirector customers around the world will benefit from the enhanced features of J2SE to improve the performance of mission critical e-business applications."

WebGain
"WebGain believes that the release of the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition version 1.4 offers significant benefits to the developer community" said Omar Tazi Director of Technology at WebGain. "There are several key enhancements that we are impressed with including significant improvements in GUI performance, better debugging capabilities, and enhanced connectivity using XML. Developers will be able to build more powerful applications faster using tools such as WebGain Studio and TopLink."

Zero G
"The Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition version 1.4 represents a great leap forward in performance, interoperability, and flexibility for developers of rich client and server-side applications," reflects Eric N. Shapiro, CEO of Zero G Software. "We've revised InstallAnywhere to take full advantage of these new enhancements, delivering the most powerful and intuitive solution for deploying software based upon the Java 2 Platform. The new JFC speed improvements make InstallAnywhere that much snappier, while the new XML features enable complex server-side configuration tasks."