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Java Tools Community Controversy

Top vendors Borland, IBM take a pass on common 'toolability' effort

By Yvonne L. Lee

February 1, 2004 — (Page 1 of 2)
Sun Microsystems Inc. and nine other Java tools vendors in early January formed the Java Tools Community (JTC) to make it easier to create tools for upcoming Java specifications, but the lack of a clear road map left two key Java toolmakers waiting in the wings.

Founding software vendors are BEA Systems Inc., Compuware Corp., Embarcadero Technologies Inc., Iopsis Software, JetBrains Inc., Oracle Corp., Quest Software Inc., SAP AG, SAS Institute Inc. and Sun. Founding customers include Sprint Communications Co. and Verizon Communications. Absent from the new Java Tools Community are Borland Software Corp. and IBM Corp. Sun officials said they approached both companies about joining the JTC.

The group has coined the term "toolability" as its goal. The JTC defines toolability as a measurement of how easy it is to build tools around a particular standard or technology. The group claims that developers will be able to use Java technology more easily to build applications, and that this in turn will increase the rate of Java adoption.

"The only way to work with [the Java Community Process today] is to be a member. What you really want is not just the tool vendors to be involved, but their customers, too," said Ken Oestreich, Sun's Java and software strategy manager.

To that end, the group will consist of both tools vendors and their customers. According to Oestreich, the group seeks to unite three constituencies: JCP members who are tools vendors, tools vendors and extension makers who may not be JCP members, and the customers of both. Tools vendors include anyone that makes Java IDE tools.

"The founding companies are fairly equal in their roles," said Ted Farrell, Oracle's chief architect for application development tools. Those responsibilities include providing content to a JTC Web site (www.javatools.org), getting their customers to the Web site, and posting some new ideas about technology that they'd like to see developed, he said. Oracle built some of the content of the JTC Web site, Farrell said.

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