Embarcadero Technologies Facilitates Integrated Modeling and Development with Sun Microsystems' Forte for Java IDE

Business Wire, June 4, 2001

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 4, 2001

Embarcadero Describe's Modeling Capabilities Enhance the Forte for

Java IDE for Developer Productivity

Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:EMBT) today announced that it is integrating Describe(TM), its award-winning Unified Modeling Language (UML) design and development tool, with Sun Microsystems' Forte(TM) for Java(TM) integrated development environment (IDE). As a member of the Forte for Java Extension Partners program, Embarcadero has delivered its product as a plug-in module to the Forte for Java IDE, letting users seamlessly employ Describe's powerful design and development functionality directly within the IDE. To date, more than one million developers have downloaded Forte for Java, Community Edition from the Sun website.

Describe is focused on raising Java technology developer productivity by smoothing out the differences in approaches to the application design and development processes. Design and development are often performed by separate teams using different tools, resulting in the need for an additional process to synchronize the two. As development projects grow in size and complexity, this approach can adversely affect productivity, causing development teams to fall behind, or to even stop updating application designs as the underlying logic changes.

Describe is pioneering an integrated modeling and development approach that unifies application design and development into a single, non-proprietary process. This powerful new method is designed to automatically reflect updates to application code in the application model and vice versa. As a result, developers can embrace the full power of UML modeling without suffering the productivity lapses associated with existing approaches. Accordingly, users are able to maintain more comprehensive and current application designs, leading to better code documentation, team communication and project results.

"Sun values its technical community as a strategic asset; that's why we try to provide Forte for Java IDE developers with the most powerful tools possible that enable users to increase their productivity quickly," said David Taber, director of portal and business development, Forte Tools, Sun Microsystems. "Our agreement with Embarcadero Technologies strengthens our value proposition by bringing best-of-breed modeling functionality into the rich Forte for Java development environment. Industry analysts spoke highly of the GDPro tool that was the baseline for Embarcadero's new offering. Describe represents a win-win situation for Sun, Embarcadero, and, most importantly, our users."

"Delivering the Describe product as a seamless integration with the Forte for Java IDE allows developers to take advantage of model-driven development within a comfortable and familiar setting," says Asok Perumainar, a certified Sun Java Instructor. "During my years of teaching, I've recognized a demand for a solution such as Describe, which offers Java technology developers a way to synchronize their UML as a productive part of everyday development."

"Embarcadero's agreement under Sun's Forte for Java Extension Partners program demonstrates our commitment to providing tools for the Java technology community," said Josh Horwitz, director of marketing, application development tools, Embarcadero Technologies. "The combined solution will offer functionality and a depth and seamlessness of integration that up to now has not been available for Forte for Java users."

About Embarcadero Technologies

Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:EMBT), provides software that enables organizations to build, optimize and manage databases and applications supporting today's critical enterprise systems. Thousands of customers, including 90 of the Fortune 100, use Embarcadero products to design, develop and administer their mission-critical database applications. Embarcadero is headquartered in San Francisco, Calif. For more information, call 415/834-3131 or visit http://www.embarcadero.com.

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