Eclipse is much earlier in its lifespan. They made good progress with the core Java developer tool.

As developers, we like open source because we feel as if it's the little guy sticking it to the big guy. And it is true to some extent.

You can talk directly to that EJB, but you still define the service using WSDL.

We provide a set of Java-server faces components to the e-business group that is building the next generation of Fusion applications. We have set of them that render out to HTML in a browser. We've made an Ajax render kit on top of the application development framework components that comply with the standard.

What we're releasing now is the first version of 10g Release 3, which includes things like the core application server, the rules engine, the ESB, and then later this year you'll get things like the new portal server and the new BPEL (Business Process Execution Language), which are [in] beta right now.

You choose the components and attributes. Our kit does all the DHTML and generates all the JavaScript to render the client.