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To: D. K. G. who wrote (10715)	5/24/2001 10:13:37 PM
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Borland Rejoins The Mac Team By By Matthew Rothenberg, Ziff Davis Internet, eWEEK May 24, 2001 12:22 PM ET zdnet.com After a lengthy absence from the Mac platform, Borland Software Corp. this week took the wraps off a beta version of JBuilder 5 for Mac OS X. Borland is distributing beta copies of the Java development environment at Apple Computer Inc.'s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif., and said the final version will ship later this year. According to the Scotts Valley, Calif., company, the new software will let developers create Java 2 Standard Edition applications that tap Mac OS X's Aqua GUI. JBuilder 5, which is currently available for Linux, Solaris, and Windows 98, 2000 and NT 4.0, includes wizards and visual tools to create thin-client front ends to Java applications; working in AppBrowser -- a Java and XML (Extensible Markup Language) development environment -- users can create Web, XML and SQL-compliant database applications that can be accessed via any browser that supports Java. The package's JDK switching feature lets developers debug against multiple Java 2 editions, and it supports Java 2, Java 2 Swing/JFC, XML, Java2D, Java collections, accessibility APIs, JDK 1.1, JavaBeans, JDBC, JSP/Servlets, serialization, inner classes, remote method invocation, Java native interface and Java archives. JBuilder 5 ships with more than 250 reusable Java 2 JFC/Swing, dbSwing and InternetBeans components with source code, and the JBuilder environment can be customized using the Open Tools API. JBuilder 5 Professional costs $999; JBuilder 5 Personal, which lacks the Professional version's Web-development features and commercial license, costs $99. Java endorsement key While Borland made early overtures toward the Mac platform with its dBase Mac package in the 1980s, the company hasn't fielded a Mac offering since the first half of the '90s. According to Tony de la Lama, vice president and general manager of Borland's Java business unit, the company decided to stage a return to the Mac after Apple CEO Steve Jobs' endorsement of Java during an appearance at the JavaOne conference in June 2000. "Jobs described how Java was going to be a major part of the Mac platform," de la Lama said. "We felt Apple's commitment to Java in Mac OS X deserved a corresponding commitment from Borland. "We feel Apple has produced an outstanding implementation of Java 2" in Mac OS X, de la Lama said. "To be able to run JBuilder without any changes on the Mac platform is pretty impressive." According to de la Lama, JBuilder for the Mac had advocates from both outside and inside the company. "It makes good business sense. Customers may have some developers on the Mac, some developers on Linux and some developers on Windows; this way, they can use the exact same environment." In addition, he said, Borland CEO Dale Fuller is the former head of Apple's PowerBook division and a proponent of the company's Mac moves. "We certainly do see a growing Java development market on the Mac," de la Lama said. "Java has become the platform of choice for a lot of enterprise computing these days. By moving into the server world, Apple will be able to have more of a corporate presence -- that means more business for us."