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title: Eclipse meets Netbeans Matisse finally! Rock on Genuitec
date: 2006-03-07T02:01:49Z
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[Genuitec](http://www.genuitec.com/) is possibly the most interesting of the Eclipse-based IDE players from a disruptive point of view. Unlike other software vendors with a legacy to ring-fence, Genuitec really is all about Eclipse. Having said that, the company makes decisions based on capability and user requirements, rather than religion. Only market dominants can afford that kind of religion though.



You license MyEclipse for $49.95, which include some support. You get an Oracle database browser thrown in. It supports both Spring and Hibernate, and now… it supports an industry leading Java-based GUI builder, namely [Matisse](http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/50/).



What’s that I hear you cry? But Matisse is Netbeans. That can’t be right.



[JSR 198](http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198) may finally bear some fruit. How about that? The Java Community Process (JCP) takes a lot of hits from people that like to complain its too slow, or too political, or too in Sun’s pocket or whatever. 



Well let me say categorically **nobody at Sun corporate was working towards Eclipse Matisse interop** but Genuitec just went ahead and built something. Nice trouble-making. The tool also supports some native Windows capability… 



These days Eclipse has political issues, just as the JCP does. It is a function of broad success and market adoption. But its great that players like Genuitec are not afraid to “get their hands dirty”.



And from a developer perspective why not build GUIs and manipulate Java code using your favourite IDE?



I see this offering as a potential enterprise developer win, win. Some Eclipse types will be exposed to netbeans GUI goodness, which is good for Sun. Meanwhile those that are impatient with the pace of Eclipse Web Tools project and their own vendor’s implementations of same, or similar, can potentially just get on with it…



It seems to me that Genuitec just built something really useful. It will be interesting to see if the market agrees. But then again I have been calling for Eclipse Netbeans interop for ages…