Visual Cafe
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Visual Café (formally Visual Café for Java) is an integrated development environment for the Java programming language. It includes a GUI builder. It was marketed as a series of editions: "Standard Edition," "Enterprise Suite," "Expert Edition," "Professional Edition," and "Development Edition." The "Enterprise Suite" was notable for supporting distributed CORBA and RMI debugging. Visual Cafe was not itself written in Java.
Visual Café was spun off by Symantec as the flagship of a new company, WebGain. WebGain acquired several other technologies, including TopLink, before ceasing operations in 2002. While TopLink found a home at Oracle, Visual Café is no longer commercially available.
WebGain purchased Together Soft's product Together Control Center (Together Studio) to integrate into Visual Cafe, but soon after the purchase was complete, Borland purchased WebGain's products Visual Cafe and Together Control Center. These products can now be found in Jbuilder.
Competing IDEs: Other IDEs that existed at the same time were Emacs (even though it's not an IDE), Visual Age for Java and JBuilder.
