Why should Oracle focus on netbeans?

Oracle ide has always been the main jdeveloper
But with the acquisition of sun, netbeans
It should be the official ide that Oracle has been pushing for a long time, because from the perspective of policy, netbeans should be a better choice:

 

1. Size: netbeans
   6.7.1 (with Java EE Support and two glassfish versions) 158 in total
   MB, while jdeveloper is about 1 GB. The size of the software installation package is an important factor.
2. Popular: netbeans is very popular. In this survey
   A total of 2,753 voters, of which netbeans received 1,191, eclipse received 1,340 votes, and jdeveloper only had 39 votes in the zone. (The plain text editor received 103 votes :-)). Search by Google
   The popularity of netbeans exceeds that of jdeveloper.
3. Java
   FX: netbeans supports Java FX.
4. Visual Design: netbeans has advanced swing/
   Visual design capabilities of UI, databinding, and database. Based on JSR-296 and
   295, which can be extended better, such as better beans binding
   .
5. Report: ireport
   Report tool, a jasperreport Based on netbeans
   Tool.
6. MySQL/Oracle Support: netbeans provides very convenient support for Oracle/MySQL. Not as good as SQL developer in Oracle
   But this support is easily extended, and SQL developer can be replaced in the future.
7. Dtrace support: netbeans already has dtrace support
   It depends on whether Oracle continues to support Solaris.
8. Glassfish/BEA support: netbeans integrates Bea and glassfish well.

Both jdeveloper and netbeans are based on Swing, while jdeveloper was initially based on JBuilder and prime time (a plug-in system ). However, there is no obstacle to porting the jdeveloper feature to netbeans.

Original article: Why Oracle shocould continue to push netbeans