San Francisco – Sun Microsystems at the 2004 JavaOne conference beginning on Monday will ship its much-heralded, so-called
easy-to-use visual Java development environment, Sun Java Studio Creator.
Designed for developing workgroup and departmental applications, the product makes use of component technology, drag and drop
functionality, and integrated editing, said Joe Keller, vice president of marketing for Java Web services and tools at Sun.
It will be offered to subscribers to the Sun Developer Network, which costs $99 per year.
Subscription pricing represents a new delivery trend for Sun.
“In the past, you bought a product and purchased support,” Keller said. “In the future, you will join programs and get tools
and support as part of the program.” Java Studio Creator might have cost two to three times as much under the previous delivery
model, he said.
Sun’s new offering shows promise in bolstering Java as an alternative to Microsoft’s Visual Basic for client-side development,
a beta user said. “It will let us use Java all the way across the board from the server all the way up [to] the GUI,” said
Dick Wall, lead software engineer at NewEnergy Associates, which provides decision support and financial software for the
utilities industry.
Java Studio Creator the product is available for the Windows, Linux and Solaris operating systems. A trial Early Access version
for the Macintosh also is to be available at www.sun.com/software/products/jscreator.
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