Happy Thanksgiving to all.
CodeGear announced JBuilder 2007 on Monday, 20 Nov. Who is CodeGear? It is a subsidiary of Borland, which is so new that its official web site is not yet ready. The new subsidiary will focus on developer productivity market while its parent company, Borland continues to grow on Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) market.
Just a week after CodeGear is formed, the young company announced the latest JBuilder that is built on Eclipse 3.2.1 core. The “enhanced” version of Eclipse delivers better plug-in management, enhances enterprise customer support and brings JBuilder innovations to Eclipse. CodeGear hopes that by offloading the maintenance of development tools, potential customers are willing to pay a fee to have a peace of mind.
The IDE is carefully crafted to address the software development trend. Open source is more pervasive than ever and development teams are increasingly distributed around the world. The trend creates a need to collaborate among developers. The easiest solution is to integrate collaboration tools right into the IDE. JBuilder 2007 includes TeamInsight, an integrated collaboration portal and Project Assist that extends far beyond just writing codes.