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Lots of folks went from OTI to Eclipse, J9 and other projects after the acquisition of IBM.

Java was the succesor of Smalltalk as deemed by Big Blue.

Before Eclipse, IBM had Visual Age for Java until early 2000's, repurposed from Visual SmallTalk. There were no source files and no VCS in the usual way, it was all integrated into a "database" giving you modal development experiences and anything not anticipated by the Visual Age devs was impossible :shudder:

Update: interestingly, Java Swing/JFC, used by IntelliJ IDEA for its GUI until this day, is based on a SmallTalk OO design, though it originated from Sun not IBM I believe

Also, right before Swing was Netscape IFC, based on NeXT (IIUC), which ran like greased lightning in comparison.

I'm not sure which UI VisualAge Java used but I remember that working much better than the median Java program too.

Visual Age for Java was a Smalltalk application.

Basically the same that was reborn as SWT on Eclipse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Widget_Toolkit

My first Java IDE (being used commercially) was Visual Age.

We moved off that to IBM Websphere Development Studio. We were a big IBM shop at the time (Websphere + DB2).

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