Sun Microsystems plans to discontinue its Sun Java Studio Enterprise and Sun Java Studio Creator developer tools and encourage users to move to the NetBeans IDE, the company said Tuesday. Version 6.0 ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to discontinue its Sun Java Studio Enterprise and Sun Java Studio Creator developer tools and encourage users to move to the NetBeans IDE, the company said Tuesday.

The crux of the NetBeans 5.5 update is compliance with Java EE 5, which was released in May. The integrated development environment (IDE) for Java application development now offers a host of tools ...