Six weeks after Oracle swallowed up BEA, the upshot for Java developers is becoming clear. The company will be pushing its home-grown JDeveloper IDE over WebLogic Workshop, but promoting WebLogic as its top app server rather than Oracle Application Server. BEA’s JRockit will be the “critical” JVM going forward (whatever that means, as other JVMs will be supported). Of course, this is only the opening stages of a no doubt years-long drama in which some products will lurch on, starved of resources but with vocal user bases, for eons and everyone complains until they die a sad death; thus is the way of mega-acquisitions. But the Wall Street Journal seems to think that Oracle is getting pretty good at this acquisition stuff; it’s gobbled up 40 companies over the past few years, so it ought to be. (Hey, everybody, I’m back from vacation! Didya miss me?) Technology Industry