The Java community is still waiting out the regulatory process for the merger of Sun and Oracle; since both companies are essentially forbidden to discuss their joint future — and thus the future of Java — in any meaningful way until the merger is approved, we’ve been condemned to sit and stew until who knows when. Still, the general outline is clear — the new king is here, and it is Oracle — and so you can hardly blame folks for rearranging things to match that reality.Take for instance this news story — not much more than a press release, really — abut Rally Software Development, which “offers a hosted service and onsite software for application lifecycle management for agile programming teams,” blah blah buzzwords blah blah. Rally is offering a “Rally Connector for JDeveloper,” which allows tighter integration with Oracle’s Java IDE. JDeveloper, mind you, while not having a bad reputation, is not exactly at the top of anyone’s list of industry-defining Java development environments. But if one were looking to read the tea leaves for the future, one might imagine that this IDE, the beneficiary of years of Oracle investment, has a brighter future than, say, NetBeans. It will be interesting to see if other products start flocking to JDeveloper in the near future. Java