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To: i-node who wrote (5005)	7/16/2000 5:00:10 AM
From: Kashish King	Respond to of 5102

Window of Opportunity Right now Java Server Pages are the center of attention for dynamic web development. An integrated XML/JSP editor with an HTML publishing feature would dominate the market. There are also opportunities for a vendor that automated creation of data model classes: not rowsets that one has to iterate on, but an pseudo OO database layer between the JSPs on one end and EJB or just JDBC row-oriented classes on the other. What a marvelous opportunity to dominate dynamic development. Too bad Inprise is blowing it again: ignorance is bliss. Visual Café In the first quarter of next year, Visual Café 4.0 Enterprise Edition will support Sun's Java 2 enterprise platform and provide a visual editor, a source code editor and remote debugging for JSPs (Java Server Pages). "I would die for JSP debugging," said Antone Ritter, intranet development engineer for Visual Café customer Computer Sciences Corp., in Fort Worth, Texas. "There's really no debugging environment available for that. You just have to compile it, put it out there and see what it does." For crying out loud, Visual Cafe's vaporware gets more attention that working Inprise code: they have JSP debug capability in the Enterprise version. It should be part of the Professional Version to establish Inprise as the standard: more evidence of short-term stupidity taking precedence over long-term intelligence. How about an integrated JSP editor with XML and a HTML or WML publish feature -- add XSLT while you're at it? If anybody is awake at Inprise they should be contacting the top HTML authoring tool vendors right now. Inprise is way ahead of Visual Cafe since they support JSP development: but they should NOT bury that in the non-existent product matrix that they don't have. They should make this front-and-center and add visual JSP tools ASAP. They should also integrate with Weblogic's product in addition to trying to promote their own. I am telling you guys, the executive and management at Inprise is asleep at the switch.