In which BEA smells coffee

BEA to join Eclipse open source tools foundation: "BEA Systems has confirmed its plans to join the Eclipse Foundation open source tools consortium."

Well. Could it be that they've finally realized that nobody likes developing in WebLogic Workshop? The article isn't promising on that front, but you never can tell. Eclipse rocks so much and Workshop is so lame that if you put them both next to each other, they'll both explode.

I used to like Workshop. Wrote a review on theserverside about it. That was back in version 7. Then in 8.1 they got all these high-falootin' ideas about making Workshop a real full-blown IDE rather than just a glue tool for assembling web services. They raised the bar themselves and then jumped right under it. Lousy editor, very slow startup, and you have to have the server running to get anything done. It's worse than NetBeans used to be.