Inprise/Borland Targets Enterprise With Award Winning Java(R) Technology
JBuilder(TM) 4 Brings e-Business Applications to Market Faster by Combining
Team Development With New Enterprise RAD Features
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., Sept. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Inprise/Borland (Nasdaq: INPR) today announced Borland(R) JBuilder(TM) 4, the latest version of its award winning, number-one-rated pure Java(R) cross-platform development environment. JBuilder 4 is the only enterprise productivity environment that supports Enterprise Java Bean (EJB(TM)) 1.1 compliant development on Windows(R), Linux(R), and Solaris(TM) platforms. This new version significantly speeds time to market for rapidly building e-business applications and deploying them to leading Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE(TM)) applications servers.
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"With an increasing demand for complex e-business applications, companies are seeking solutions to enable them to build and deploy Java applications that are robust and scalable," said Mark Driver, senior analyst, Gartner Group. "Robust tools are essential components to meet the demands of the Internet economy."
"With the release of JBuilder 4, Inprise/Borland has made the best Java development environment even better," said Ali Pashaei, president AppLogic, Inc. "In addition to the major new features such as team development, including tight integration with CVS, EJB wizards, JSP(TM) improvements, ArchiveBuilder(TM), etc., there are many minor improvements that make the day-to-day job of developers easier."
JBuilder 4 streamlines the concurrent management of source code for large distributed teams while extending existing source code management across the Internet.
"E-commerce applications often require collaboration of different teams in the development cycle and that's where JBuilder's integrated and scalable team development environment comes into play," said Juergen Fesslmeier, JBuilder product manager.
JBuilder 4 adds new features to its industry-leading pure Java visual two-way designers, wizards, and the integrated debugger that significantly reduce the development time and cost associated with building and deploying enterprise Java applications. Specific JBuilder 4 feature enhancements include:
-- New visual two-way-tools, designers, and wizards such as the entity
Bean modeller that shorten the development and deployment of e-business
applications.
-- Build dynamic, data-driven Web applications fast using new
InternetBeans(TM), JSP and servlets
-- Support for the latest Java 2 version 1.3 with built in support for the
Sun(R) Java HotSpot Virtual Machine(TM) to boost performance
-- JDataStore(TM) 4 pure Java Object Relational Database Management System
for Web, mobile and embedded applications
-- Remote debugging for debugging Java application remotely on Windows,
Linux, and Solaris or any platform that supports Java 2 JPDA, such as
HP-UX(R), AIX(R), Tru64(TM)
JBuilder 4 is tightly integrated with the Borland(R) Application Server(TM) and now offers support for BEA's WebLogic(TM) server, providing enterprise customers with a flexible and scalable end-to-end solution for e-business computing. Users can seamlessly run and debug EJBs and CORBA(R) applications locally or remotely in the JBuilder environment and deploy EJB instantly without shutting down the application server.
"JBuilder has been an outstanding success with our customers, the press, analysts and the industry," said Tony de la Lama, vice-president and general manager of Inprise/Borland's Java business unit. "JBuilder's acceptance continues to grow dramatically, and it recently won major awards from Java Pro, JavaWorld and Software Development Magazine, three leading industry publications. We have built on this success and have designed JBuilder 4 to be the premier solution for Java developers who need a comprehensive set of tools for creating pure enterprise Java applications." |
