"Refreshing its development tools arsenal, Sun Microsystems on Tuesday revealed plans for upcoming versions of Java Studio Creator and is unleashing upgrades to the NetBeans open source platform and Java Studio Enterprise.

Java Studio Creator is positioned as Sun’s easy-to-use visual tool for building departmental applications. An upgrade planned for next spring, code-named “Thresher,� will add support for “market-leading� application servers, according to Dan Roberts, group manager for developer tools marketing at Sun. Presumably, that would mean BEA Systems WebLogic Server and IBM WebSphere. Java Studio Creator now includes the Java System Application Server from Sun."

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