Oracle JDeveloper vs. IBM Visual Age for Java

Hi,
I have been out of this forum for quite sometime now.I wanted to know how JDeveloper is doing in general and how is its performance when compared to IBM Visual Age for Java IDE?
Any links to sites related to this would be helpful.
Thanks in advance,
Sandeep

Sandeep,
Be careful while using JDeveloper for developing real time applications. There are very good features in JDeveloper, but this tool is having LOT OF BUG's...you know what I mean. You will end up having sleepness nights later to dig the problems and then to have answer from Oralce, which will always be you better shift to new version. When you will try to shift to new version, lots of earlier classes would have been removed in JDeveloper and then you will be forced to use new ones and take a hit of additional effort.
Otherwise Its a very good tool and can be the no .1 Java IDE, if oracle technical staff work hard and make this product a bit stable.
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