Borland® JBuilder® 2006 Delivers New Capabilities to Accelerate Agile Development of Java® Applications

Business Wire, Sept 6, 2005

CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Peer-to-Peer Collaboration Capabilities Added to Award-Winning JBuilder IDE, Brings ''Virtual Peer Programming'' to Even Widely Distributed Software Teams

Borland Software Corporation (Nasdaq:BORL), the global leader for Software Delivery Optimization(TM), today announced the release of JBuilder(R) 2006 -- a significant upgrade of Borland's market-leading Java(R) integrated development environment (IDE) designed to accelerate development of industrial-strength enterprise Java applications. Borland JBuilder 2006 includes new capabilities designed to help software teams more effectively collaborate in real time, even across geographic boundaries, with new peer-to-peer developer collaboration features and integrated application lifecycle support for requirements management, source code management and unit testing.

In addition, the company introduced a new version of its Optimizeit(TM) application performance management toolkit, Borland's latest solution for isolating and resolving performance hazards during the development of J2EE(R) applications.

"Software development has become more complex than ever, as IT organizations are driven to do more with less, platforms and standards multiply, and development teams cross geographies and time zones," said Boz Elloy, senior vice president of products at Borland. "In order to thrive in this new era, developers have to be able to work in unison, as a team, regardless of where they are. JBuilder 2006 enables remote teams to build software with the same feel as if they were in the same room, offering larger and dispersed teams the same levels of productivity previously reserved for smaller, localized teams."

Both JBuilder and Optimizeit are important components of Borland's application lifecycle management (ALM) solution. The new versions being introduced today are tightly integrated with other Borland ALM products including the CaliberRM(TM) requirements management solution, giving developers integrated tools to increase their own productivity as well as that of the entire software organization.

Accelerating Distributed Java Development

JBuilder 2006 is designed with the unique needs of distributed teams in mind, with new collaboration capabilities to help individuals and teams more effectively work with outsourced, offshore, remote or distributed team members. New peer-to-peer collaboration features enable developers to jointly perform code editing, visual design, and debugging tasks in real-time, whether they are located in the next building or around the world. Additionally, distributed re-factoring and change management capabilities automatically propagate local changes to remote projects and provide automatic notification of changes to requirements.

According to Gartner, "When location-related cultural and organizational differences intervene, collaboration among team members becomes even more integral to ensuring the success of your application development efforts. Application development organizations engaged in distributed development environments should press vendors for toolsets that mitigate the risks of global, collaborative application delivery. IT groups that plan their responses to the challenges raised by this complex issue have a better chance of succeeding in the increasingly competitive environment of software development."(1)

Agile programming methodologies, which include the Extreme Programming approach, seek to mitigate the risk and impact of change in the development process to the extent software teams can harness change for their customers' competitive advantage. Because they advocate close collaboration between the development team and business experts with frequent face-to-face communication, agile methods have traditionally been relegated to smaller, highly local, self-organizing teams. JBuilder 2006 brings agile capabilities to larger and more distributed development teams by enabling them to utilize pair programming techniques through real-time, peer-to-peer collaboration. Using JBuilder 2006, two or more programmers can work together in unison, collaborate on the same design, algorithm, code or test, address difficult challenges and generate new ideas.

"One of the current projects we're working on involves a client with no central office, and numerous developers spread over a large geographic area," said Kevin Dean, president, Dolphin Data Development Ltd. "New peer-to-peer collaboration tools such as those found in JBuilder 2006 will allow us to share code and development techniques far more readily, while also enabling senior team members to mentor junior developers without having to arrange meetings days in advance."

JBuilder 2006 is also designed to give developers the tools they need to help identify and reduce security hazards throughout the development process. JBuilder includes innovative technology from Borland partner Fortify Software to analyze code and identify security vulnerabilities using best practices and automated code audits. In addition to new collaboration and strengthened security features, JBuilder 2006 is also designed to: