Despite what some might believe, Sun Microsystems would not have to dump its NetBeans open source tools platform if the company ever joined the rival Eclipse Foundation, Eclipse Executive Director Mike Milinkovich said on Tuesday.Interviewed at the JavaOne conference, Milinkovich disagreed with a report that said Sun would be forced to halt NetBeans as a condition of Eclipse participation. This notion, he said, is “just utter hogwash.”“We would love to have Sun join. There’s no reason they can’t join. The door’s certainly always open,” Milinkovich said. Right now, however, there are no active discussions with Sun about Sun climbing aboard, he said. Sun already offers an Eclipse plug-in enabling development for the Sun GlassFish application server via the Eclipse IDE, Milinkovich said. Two Sun officials, Tim Bray, Sun director of Web technologies, and Rich Green, executive vice president for software, both declined to comment Monday on whether Sun would be joining Eclipse.In another development, the Eclipse Foundation is on course to ship its multi-project Europa release in June, Milinkovich said. The 23-project package features more than double the number of projects in last year’s 10-project Callisto release. To keep developers working on the same level with its technologies, Eclipse offers a single, uniform release of projects.Part of the Europa release is the Dynamic Languages Toolkit, featuring support for dynamic languages, Milinkovich said. Technology Industry