Borland fine-tunes Java tool

BORLAND AT ITS BorCon conference in San Diego next week plans to announce its JBuilder 7 Enterprise developer tool, which bolsters Web services capabilities and tightens integration with the company's Optimizeit Performance Suite for performance management.

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Web services backing is being enhanced via support of the full J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) stack, including extending support for publishing of services in a UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration) directory, according to Borland.

"What we do now is we support the ability to take an EJB [Enterprise JavaBean] and expose it as a Web service and publish it into a UDDI directory. So effectively, what we have now is the full development life cycle," said Axel Kratel, senior product manager for Java solutions at Borland.

Additionally, JBuilder's EJB designer features the ability to sketch entity beans without first creating a database schema, according to Borland officials.

Borland is integrating Version 7 with its Optimizeit Performance Suite 4.2, which also is being announced. This integration enables developers to rotate seamlessly between Optimizeit and JBuilder.

New configuration management capabilities in Version 7 enable customization of build processes for Java objects. Application server support has been added for BEA WebLogic 7.0, iPlanet 6.5, Sybase EAServer, and the Oracle9i Application Server.

Borland user Andy Fraley, CTO of telecommunications software developer CoManage, in Pittsburgh, said Borland was "adding all the right things" to the product.

"They're extending their support for new application servers, they are integrating their Optimizeit suite," Fraley said.

Borland also is integrating its TeamSource DSP (Developer Services Platform) software, for team-based software development, with JBuilder 7. It is being included on the toolbar of Version 7.

"What we're doing is we're fully integrating the client portion of TeamSource into JBuilder," said Tony Delalama, vice president and general manager of Java solutions at Borland. "Right out of the box, development teams will be able to collaborate."

TeamSource is available either for deployment within an enterprise or as a hosted service.

Optimizeit Suite 4.2, meanwhile, features data profiling to ensure that there are no memory problems with the code.

Scotts Valley, Calif.-based Borland also will roll out Enterprise Studio 4 for Java, a suite of tools including JBuilder 7; the Borland Enterprise Server, AppServer Edition; Optimizeit Suite 4.2; and Rational Rose Professional J 2002, for application modeling.

Also included in the suite are Rational Unified Process 2002 for Web-enabled software engineering, Interactive Objects Software ArcStyler for J2EE application development, and Macromedia Dreamweaver MX for Web development.