JBuilder 2007 Product Tour November 2006

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1 JBuilder 2007 Product Tour November 2006

2 Introduction... 3 Eclipse Overview... 4 JBuilder 2007 Overview... 4 ProjectAssist. 5 Graphical EJB Workbench... 6 TeamInsight..7 Conclusion

3 Introduction Software development is no longer an isolated activity and Open Source has changed the way we approach development projects. Today, developers work in teams that need to collaborate across geographies and time zones. In addition, development has become highly iterative, requiring new coordinated tools and processes. Open source provides a myriad of new tools, components, and value, but it also creates a chaotic environment that makes it difficult to manage the development process and to guarantee the quality of software being developed. Two major trends are driving change in software development today: 1) Open source is more pervasive than ever 2) Development teams are increasingly distributed around the world Providing "free" tools, components and unlimited flexibility, open source by its nature creates an uncontrolled development environment that can make it difficult to manage an already complicated process, ultimately increasing development costs, lowering productivity and reducing confidence in the software used and developed. At the same time, macroeconomic changes have encouraged the increasing distribution of software development, creating challenges and increasing the cost of managing teams in remote locations. 3

4 Eclipse Overview Eclipse has formed an independent open eco-system around royalty-free technology and a universal platform for tools integration. Eclipse based tools give developers freedom of choice in a multi-language, multi-platform, multi-vendor environment. Eclipse provides a plug-in based framework that makes it easier to create, integrate and utilize software tools, saving time and money. By collaborating and exploiting core integration technology, tool producers can leverage platform reuse and concentrate on core competencies to create new development technology. The Eclipse Platform is written in the Java language and comes with extensive plug-in construction toolkits and examples. It has already been deployed on a range of development workstations including Linux, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, QNX, Mac OS X and Windows based systems. JBuilder 2007 Overview JBuilder 2007 brings accelerated development tools to Eclipse Open Source, with its renowned RAD and collaborative capabilities, making development fast and reliable for Java, open source and the web. Projects built with previous versions of JBuilder can be easily imported right into the new JBuilder 2007 IDE. Enjoy the flexibility and cost-efficiencies of using an open platform, while providing enterpriseclass tools and reliability. JBuilder 2007 addresses these challenges with enterprise-class collaboration features that restore confidence in the software development process while leveraging an ecosystem of commercial and open source plug-ins, 3rd party tools and frameworks. 4

Some of the advanced development features that JBuilder 2007 brings to the Eclipse platform: ProjectAssist ProjectAssist dramatically reduces the time and complexity to create new team and project

5 Some of the advanced development features that JBuilder 2007 brings to the Eclipse platform: ProjectAssist ProjectAssist dramatically reduces the time and complexity to create new team and project definitions. It provides simple, single point installation and configuration of a complete developer tool stack for bug tracking, source code management, project planning/tracking, requirements management and continuous integration builds. ProjectAssist can dramatically reduce the time and complexity for startup of new projects by guiding the setup process for new team and project environment definitions. Wizards help to create new deployment models with options for deep and shallow scanning to discover pre-existing services that can be reused. ProjectAssist can save days or even weeks of manual configuration and integration. Figure 1: ProjectAssist allows the team to create a complete tool stack definition and provision new projects onto the TeamInsight ALM system as easily as selecting File -> New -> ProjectAssist. The team is up and running and able to focus on business problems, not tooling setup. 5

Graphical EJB Workbench The new Graphical EJB Workbench in JBuilder 2007 provides a simplified RAD development experience for both novice and experienced JEE developers alike.

6 Graphical EJB Workbench The new Graphical EJB Workbench in JBuilder 2007 provides a simplified RAD development experience for both novice and experienced JEE developers alike. Legacy projects using EJB 2.x are easily converted to the new annotation-based EJB 3 specification, full LiveSource capabilities let developers use either a code-centric or RAD visual environment. Easily create EJBs and model relationships, security and OCL constraints. Changes to the source code, annotations, properties view and graphical view are always in sync through JBuilder's patented LiveSource technology. JBuilder allows targeting and retargeting app servers from all of the major commercial and OSS vendors including IBM, BEA, Sun, JBoss and Apache. Figure 2: The new Graphical EJB Workbench in JBuilder 2007 provides a simplified RAD development experience for both novice and experienced JEE developers. A visual point-and-click, two-way designer with instant navigation between visual EJB components in designer and source. 6

7 TeamInsight Manage and view projects across development teams with TeamInsight collaboration features. Individual developers have a unified real-time view of their project responsibilities for bugs, change requests, code notes, tasks and requirements, and the entire team has a shared project web portal with live data and statistics on team vector and velocity. JBuilder 2007 includes collaboration features that allow local and remote developers to jointly design, edit and debug applications in real time. JBuilder 2007 automatically discovers other clients on the network, allowing users to easily form ad-hoc collaboration sessions and share projects, including stack traces, files, and debugging sessions. Figure 3: The TeamInsight project portal provides live project metrics so that the development team always has confidence in their project velocity. 7

UML Modeling with EJB LiveSource and SOA LiveSource LiveSource technology simultaneously replicates changes to models in the code, and vice versa.

8 UML Modeling with EJB LiveSource and SOA LiveSource LiveSource technology simultaneously replicates changes to models in the code, and vice versa. This ensures system architects and developers are closely aligned in the development process, thereby reducing costs associated with software rework. Figure 4: LiveSource technology simultaneously replicates changes to models in the code, and vice versa. 8

9 LiveSource replaces the traditional round-trip engineering methods, which usually cause models and code to go out of synch. Failure to keep models and code in synch often leads to disparity between business needs and the resulting software. Figure 5: JBuilder 2007 provides powerful source code based visualizations and metrics to aid development teams through its Java LiveSource engine and UML 2 models. 9

10 Conclusion JBuilder 2007 brings powerful development features to the Eclipse platform: VELOCITY JBuilder 2007 increases the development velocity of Java teams and individuals with P2P, Visual EJB and web services GUIs and Java5 Enterprise functionality. JBuilder 2007 delivers an innovative and highly productive visual drag and drop environment with enterpriseclass project management capabilities designed to increase speed and productivity. BALANCE JBuilder 2007 helps organizations manage and balance complex development projects across teams and locations, and across open source and proprietary software. JBuilder 2007 s TeamInsight is an innovative collaboration foundation that lets organizations leverage best of breed solutions for source code management, requirements, bug tracking and project management. To manage the application lifecycle, JBuilder 2007 integrates with popular Borland Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) products including Together and StarTeam, also based on Eclipse. CONFIDENCE A trusted commercial solution, JBuilder 2007 establishes confidence in the software development process. JBuilder 2007 embraces and integrates the most popular open source plug-ins, tools and frameworks, all within a certified and managed turnkey development solution that organizations of any size can rely on. Combined with all the features you ve come to expect from the leader in Java IDE development tools, JBuilder 2007 is the first choice for Java developers worldwide. For more information on JBuilder 2007 visit the JBuilder 2007 product site. 1 0

JBuilder 2008 also now has full support for Struts 1.x applications including graphical editing and Web flow development.

JBuilder 2008 also now has full support for Struts 1.x applications including graphical editing and Web flow development. JBUILDER 2008 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS GENERAL QUESTIONS What new JBuilder products did CodeGear announce in the April 2, 2008 press release? JBUILDER 2008 TURBO, JBUILDER 2008 PROFESSIONAL, AND JBUILDER