Android is out and has been generating a lot of buzz. Ahh.. what having an extra $10 million wouldn't do for your platform. ;-)
Personally, I like the fact that the main development environment is Eclipse, but I guess it also makes a lot of sense for Google. It's free, it's powerful, it's mature, it's open source, and it has an excellent plug-in architecture that lets anyone add features quite easily. (Quite the fanboy, I am, eh?)
Speaking of Eclipse, its Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) is also out and is pretty exciting. It lets you write rich Ajax applications using Java and also leverage the powerful OSGi capabilities of Eclipse. That means reusable components (and Eclipse itself has some very good ones such as JFace, EMF, etc.), and some very powerful IDE support. In fact, some RCP applications can be easily ported to a web (RAP) application with some minimal modifications. Personally, this is great news since I don't really have any kind of code-fu for JavaScript.
For some demos on what RAP can do, see here.
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