When I first announced that Sun was making its Java Studio Creator product available as a free download, some skeptics labelled this as a mere publicity stunt ahead of the release of Creator 2.
Well, Java Studio Creator 2 is now here, and it’s still free.
Java Studio Creator is based on JavaServer Faces (JSF) technology, a component-based approach to web development that is similar in style to ASP.NET. This positions Java Studio Creator as a direct competitor to Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions. Both bring drag-and-drop rapid application development to the web and both are free downloads, but Creator is free of many of the restrictions placed on Microsoft’s Express Editions (e.g. it offers a full visual database query builder).
And of course, being written in Java, Creator will run on Mac OS X and Linux systems.
A brief overview of some of the new features:
- improved code completion in code editors (Java, HTML, CSS)
- a new graphical CSS editor
- EJB Support (was beta in Creator 1)
- many new JSF components
- a new database support layer
- HTTP monitoring
- AJAX components (including a Google Maps component)
- runs on Java 5 with associated speed and UI benefits
If you’ve considered Java web development in the past and were put off by code-heaviness and cryptic XML configuration files, you should definitely check out the video product tours for Creator 2 to see just how easy it can be.
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Great news thank you.
Finally Sun have answer to visual studio.
February 1st, 2006 at 11:21 pm
Wow! I’m a novice in every sense of the word, but after watching the tutorial I don’t think I would drown, so I’m diving in. Why not? It’s free.
February 2nd, 2006 at 1:33 am
If they only made it easir to download it. You have to be registered SDN member (free), which I realised I already was ;-) And as always, I did not remember my password. Looking for the “forgot your password” link? No success. After couple of pages I got totally lost and had no idea where I ended up, but certainly not logged in the SDN and NOT downloading the Creator.
February 2nd, 2006 at 6:46 am
I found it use this link: https://softwarereg.sun.com/registration/developer/en_US/manage_account
February 2nd, 2006 at 4:08 pm
Thank you Darko, I’m now downloading the Creator.
February 5th, 2006 at 3:11 pm