Project Rave

It's a new IDE from Sun.

In JavaOne Sun has been talking about reaching 10 million of Java Developers (they say there are 3m right now). To make this possible they want to expand the number of 'corporate developers' that use Java, and with 'corporate developer' they mean the guys who use VB 6 (the same ones that Microsoft is trying to move to .NET ;).

Project Rave is a tool for those guys. It looks cool, and it's fast, as they built it with no extensibility hooks as other more ambitious IDEs (NetBeans, Eclipse). Right now it just supports Web applications, and it's not targeted to the EJB developer, it's for guys that want to access their database directly, with tools to do data binding directly from the database, etc. It targets the same people as ASP.NET Web Matrix.