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Mehmet Erten wrote:

> Since Borland is going into ALM 

Borland is already involved heavily in ALM.  That's the
point of the recent news: they've become so heavily
skewed towards the ALM business that the language unit
has suffered.

> and as any other none-microsoft company will 
> be involving withi Eclipse more and more, I downloaded Eclipse today.
> While JBuilder compatibility will be an issue, if anybody has any experience 
> with JDataStore in Eclipse, please let me know where I can read about it. I 
> search JDataStore in Borland and in google but did not see any link.

Well, the FAQ which is linked to on JDataStore page says this:

> Q. Which Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) will work with
> JDataStore?

> The JDataStore database is designed for tight
> integration with Borland JBuilder. Because of compliance with Java
> standards, it also works very well with most Java-compliant
> development tools such as IBM(r) VisualAge(r) and VisualCafe(tm) By
> using a third-party ODBC-to-JDBC bridge, native IDEs such as Visual
> Basic(r), BorlandTM Delphi,TM and KylixTM are also very productive
> with JDataStore.

Since it is just Java, it ought to work just about anywhere.

However, are you currently using JDataStore and JBuilder?
If so, what forces you to discontinue using JBuilder, and
switch immediately to Eclipse? For the foreseeable future,
it would seem to me that JBuilder 2006 would fulfill
most peoples' needs. I know that I have considered using
Eclipse on this Core Duo iMac because JBuilder 2006 is not
officially supported on OS X. Until recently, I had been
doing all of my development on a Windows machine (but that
situation has changed), and I could honestly say that because
I had no projects which demanded Java 5.0, I would have been
just as well off using JBuilder 2005 as 2006. Yes, JB 2006
has some compelling new features, but none which improved
my productivity by that much as a lone developer (e.g., the
collaboration features, while potentially a really great
feature in JB 2006, really don't apply to me).

If you are running on a supported platform, and have no
compelling reason beyond the recent news about the future
of Borland, I'd stick with what you have now.  It's not
as if it's going to suddenly stop working, is it?


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