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The leading corporate players in Java are:
- Sun Microsystems (http://www.sun.com/)
- Invented Java;
licenses it to others
- Develops,
licenses, distributes:
- The Java Software Development Kit (Java SDK)
- The Java Runtime Environment (JRE)
- Sun HotJava (Web
browser written entirely in Java) was an early proof of concept,
but isn't a viable browser at this point.
- The Sun Developer Network
(Java Technology)
- http://java.sun.com/
- A very rich source of Java resources for Java developers.
- Register there for free; it's worth it! Recommended!
- java.com
- NetBeans
( http://www.netbeans.org/
)
- Eclipse ( http://www.eclipse.org/
)
- An IDE written in Java.
- You can download it for free from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/index.php
- Written by IBM, and then contributed to the
public domain, where it's gaining a huge amount of support.
- Really a plug-in framework, which comes with the Java plug-in
already installed.
- Additional plug-ins allow it to be tailored for just
about anything you might ever want.
- Borland ( http://www.borland.com/
)
- IBM ( http://www.ibm.com/
)
plus lots and lots of smaller players!
Note: One large player to avoid when it comes to Java:
Microsoft.
Microsoft and Java are mortal enemies, because the Java platform is a threat to
Microsoft's hegemony in the computing market.
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