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Comparing IBM WebSphere J2EE Portal Studio and Eclipse

With the red-hot Eclipse IDE at its core, IBM WebSphere Studio delivers a compelling lineup of integrated tools. But why not just get Eclipse for free and use available plug-ins? What does WebSphere Studio bring to the party? 

Eclipse 3.0 is the widely acclaimed, open-source J2EE IDE that has been shaking up the market for development tools. Its large ecosystem of plug-in tools has made it an attractive environment for developers using Java, C/C++, and COBOL, and other languages.

In its original release, of course, Eclipse was a strictly Java affair. It was squarely positioned as Big Blue's response to the Sun's open source J2EE IDE called NetBeans. But over the course of time, Eclipse gained a larger role due to the wide adoption of its plug-in architecture by vendors and freeware developers. In 2004, IBM made two big changes to Eclipse: It released version 3.0, which relied on a new, dynamic architecture; and then it spun off the Eclipse operation. Eclipse is now a separate entity that competes freely in the marketplace.

In an article on our IBM Pervasive App Development portal, ("Eclipse 3.0 and OSGi: A New Standards-Based Architecture At the Heart of IBM's WebSphere Client Technology"), I discussed the dynamic plug-in architecture adopted in Eclipse 3.0.

In this article, I want to focus on the differences between Eclipse 3.0 and IBM's Eclipse-based suite of Java development tools, WebSphere Studio.

The full Article: http://www.devx.com/ibm/Article/26690

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Review: WebSphere Portal 5.0

By Jim Rapoza

Compared with some other enterprise portals, IBM's WebSphere Portal has become a big player in a relatively short time. However, while past versions of the IBM portal were capable in many ways, the platform was incomplete in some areas.

With the release of Version 5.0 of its portal platform, IBM has addressed these shortcomings, and WebSphere Portal is now fully deserving of its spot among the top EIP products in the EIP market.

The IBM portal's many improvements include significant upgrades to both the administrative and end-user interfaces. The product also does a good job of leveraging the powerful WebSphere Application Server platform, upon which it is based, as well as collaborative tools from IBM's Lotus Software division.

Full Article: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1372124,00.asp