Application Development News & Articles


Borland Unveils JBuilder Roadmap; Signposts Include Eclipse

Borland Software recently laid out plans for JBuilder, including continued development of JBuilder products to utilize Eclipse as the integration framework.

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Borland Software initiated the next phase of its software delivery optimization strategy last week with the release of Borland Core Software Delivery Platform. Formerly code-named "Project Themis," the Core SDP provides what Borland is describing as an application lifecycle management environment with integrated tools optimized for job function and cross-role interaction.

Borland adds CMM with TeraQuest acquisition

The evolution of Borland Software’s product and services strategy is a conceptual alphabet soup. First there was ALM, then SDO, now, with the company’s acquisition earlier this month of TeraQuest Metrics, add CMM to the bowl.

JBuilder: a powerful and special IDE

Borland’s JBuilder 2005 Enterprise is an all-Java IDE written by Java developers, for Java developers. This version targets enterprise developers with support for EJBs, Web services, XML, mobile, and database application development.

IBM announces new 'self-healing' WebSphere

The first major release of IBM WebSphere in two years offers self-healing capabilities to provide failover for business transactions conducted via the Internet.

Borland's SDO strategy: Implications for developers

When a toolmaker known for its almost Zen-like focus on developers begins turning its attention toward the business needs and concerns of management, it's fair to ask: "Where will this new strategy leave programmers?" The toolmaker in question is Borland Software, whose recent unveiling of the next phase of its evolving product strategy, dubbed Software Delivery Optimization (SDO), raises that question.

Microsoft embraces ALM with upcoming Visual Studio 2005 release

Microsoft is planting its flag firmly in the application life-cycle management (ALM) space with the latest addition to its Visual Studio product line, Visual Studio 2005 Team System. Currently in its first beta release, VS Team System will include new capabilities for team coordination and collaborative development, says Rick LaPlante, general manager of the Visual Studio 2005 Team System at Microsoft.

Borland unveils SDO strategy

Borland Software unveiled the next phase of its product strategy at its annual user conference, held in San Jose, Calif., last week. With that strategy -- dubbed Software Delivery Optimization (SDO) -- the historically developer-focused toolmaker is turning its sights toward the business needs and "pain points" of management.

Borland launches JBuilder 2005

Borland Software Corp. has announced the imminent release of the latest version of its JBuilder IDE.

News from JavaOne: Borland announces enhanced J2EE optimization toolset

As part of Borland's Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) approach to providing optimization from development and testing through production, the company has announced a new version of Optimizeit ServerTrace 3 for J2EE.

Sun launches Java Studio Creator

Positioned as something of a RAD-environment, the software marks a departure for a company that has focused much of its tool efforts at nitty-gritty Java development.

Segue, Borland bundle boosts J2EE testing

Segue Software and Borland outlined plans to jointly market a bundled J2EE offering for optimizing the performance of enterprise Java applications. The agreement calls for selling a joint offering that incorporates Segue's SilkPerformer load and performance testing toolset and Borland's Optimizeit ServerTrace J2EE root-cause analysis offering.

Sonic’s Van Huizen on transactional coherency, warm standby and JMS

Jack Vaughan spoke a little while back with Sonic Software’s CTO Gordon Van Huizen about emerging trends in fault tolerant middleware.

Borland agrees to distribute eBay SDKs

Online trading giant eBay expanded the reach of its growing developer program by signing up Borland Software to distribute eBay and PayPal SDKs to Delphi developers.

Q&A: Stephen White, IBM: BPMN spec aims to help join business and IT

The Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI.org) recently began delivering release 1.0 of the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN 1.0), which is designed to provide a readily understandable, royalty-free notation for both business process design and business process implementation, according to the organization.

Borland brings RM to the masses

Borland last week began shipping the latest version of its requirements management tool, CaliberRM 6.0. Part of Borland's application life-cycle management portfolio, CaliberRM is designed to help software development teams align application changes to an organization's business needs, said Borland product manager David Walker.

To catch a thief with BizTalk Server 2004

Watching the detectives may be fun on TV, but human detection is "not very productive" when it comes to stopping retail theft, according to Steve Winningham, senior vice president of IT at Virgin Entertainment. He explained how his company uses technology to help catch employees stealing from the 23 Virgin Megastores in the U.S.

The push for process heats up

Managers are gaining an edge in the effort to implement development processes. Can SCM cut development costs?

Sybase woos with slew of tools

Sybase insists that tools play a key role in its strategy to "unwire the enterprise."

JBuilder helps to move Mars Rover portal

JBuilder, the Java IDE from Borland Software Corp., was used to develop the Collaborative Information Portal (CIP) that is handling data downloads from the Mars Exploration Rover mission.