.. and yet it appears to be. I've recently browsed the Eclipse Mobile Tools for Java (MTJ) project pages (found here: http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/mtj/) and it seems to me that there has been no major development for quite some time now. Quoting the latest news from their web:
The first public release (0.7) was completed on November 06
And that my friends, is a year ago. I must say that I am rather sad about this. Even though I am a NetBeans fan and Mobility Pack committer I’ve always felt that it was competition (read ‘Eclipse’) that stimulated the NetBeans community to produce a better IDE. And all Java developers benefit through better tools.
If MTJ is truly dead it is certainly no favor to mobile developers. Competition sparks innovation and there is never enough of that. Let us hope I am wrong and MTJ is just getting ready to stun as all with some awesome tools.
In somewhat related news NetBeans 6.0 has been released as Beta2 and the FCS is so close I can nearly smell it. If you develop in Java then definitely check it out – it’s the best thing since The Simpsons made it to TV!
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No, not dead by any means..they are working on a 1.0 release in fact..
I don't think so - http://download.eclipse.org/dsdp/mtj/downloads/
still shows Latest Release 0.7 Thu, 23 Nov 2006 -- 15:18 (-0500)
which is more than a year ago, i think it's dead
The project is not dead. It is currently being rebooted. Check the Wiki pages for info (http://wiki.eclipse.org/DSDP/MTJ)
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