JBuilder is a Java IDE from Borland. It has won several consecutive awards as the most powerful IDE for professional Java Programming. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x737, 54 KB) Summary JBuilder screenshot Licensing This is a screenshot of copyrighted computer software, and the copyright for it is most likely held by the author(s) or the company that created the software. ... Software development is the translation of a user need or marketing goal into a software product. ... Borland Software Corporation is a software company headquartered in California. ... An operating system (OS) is a computer program that manages the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... A cross-platform (or platform independent) programming language, software application or hardware device works on more than one system platform (e. ... A Software Development Kit, or SDK for short, is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, operating system or similar. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, typically common to a particular domain name or subdomain on the World Wide Web on the Internet. ... Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. ... An integrated development environment (IDE), also known as integrated design environment and integrated debugging environment, is a type of computer software that assists computer programmers in developing software. ... Borland Software Corporation is a software company headquartered in California. ...

Borland sells a variety of versions of JBuilder, and offers a free limited version for beginners of the Java language.

JBuilder's main competitors are the products from IBM (Eclipse), JetBrains (IntelliJ IDEA), BEA Systems and Sun Microsystems (NetBeans). Big Blue redirects here. ... Eclipse is a free software / open source platform-independent software framework for delivering what the project calls rich-client applications, as opposed to thin client browser-based applications. ... JetBrains is a Czech software development company with offices in Prague, Czech Republic; Saint Petersburg, Russia and Boston, USA. It is known for its Java IDE, IntelliJ IDEA. JetBrains was founded in 2000 as a private company. ... IntelliJ IDEA is a commercial Java IDE by the company JetBrains. ... BEA Systems (NASDAQ: BEAS) is a company that specializes in application infrastructure software. ... Sun Microsystems, Inc. ... NetBeans refers to both a platform for the development of Java desktop applications, and an integrated development environment (IDE) developed using the NetBeans Platform. ...

History

JBuilder was conceived within Borland in late 1995, by the people fascinated with the new language, Java including David Williams, Carl Quinn and Jayson Minard working in Borland's Component Product Group and the C++ Group. Carl Quinn later created the Baja component model which became the basis of the JavaBeans specification. Jayson Minard created the Java prototype which was the foundation for the JBuilder IDE, and the DataSet model for database access. Other people later joining the team were Joe Nuxoll and Blake Stone who led the development of the first all-Java version of the product, and with Blake Stone eventually become JBuilder's chief scientist after Jayson Minard vacated the role. Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. ... David Williams is the name of: David G Williams (illustrator), Australian comic book illustrator David Williams, a New Zealand law professor David Williams, one of the captors of John Andre in the American Revolutionary War David Marshall Williams, the inventor of the M1 Carbine David Williams, real name of comedy... Jayson Minard was involved in or related to these technology products or innovations: Part of the Force team developing the Force Xbase compiler, the first natively compiled and statically typed Xbase language. ... JavaBeans are software components written in the Java programming language. ... Jayson Minard was involved in or related to these technology products or innovations: Part of the Force team developing the Force Xbase compiler, the first natively compiled and statically typed Xbase language. ... Jayson Minard was involved in or related to these technology products or innovations: Part of the Force team developing the Force Xbase compiler, the first natively compiled and statically typed Xbase language. ...

The first version of JBuilder was mostly written in Delphi other than the form designer and component library. Version 3.5 was the first written fully in Java, and this platform, revolutionary for those days, 1997, permitted users to add "add-ons", a.k.a. OpenTools, and so customize the IDE for their purposes. As a result, Oracle was able to build their initial JDeveloper based on JBuilder (in 2001 JDeveloper was rewritten, today it does not contain any code from the JBuilder product). A community formed around the new product, adding more and more new plugins. One of such plugins, the Together plugin for JBuilder finally evolved into a separate, standalone product - but the company, TogetherSoft, was eventually acquired by Borland. Delphi is the primary programming language of Borland Delphi. ... Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) is one of the major companies developing database management systems (DBMS), tools for database development, middle-tier software (Fusion Middleware), enterprise resource planning software (ERP), customer relationship management software (CRM) and supply chain planning (SCM) software. ... JDeveloper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

JBuilder 3 had a reputation for being slow and unstable. By version 3.5 Tony de la Lama took control over the production process - and since then, until his departure in 2003 to take control of the TogetherSoft acquisition, Borland produced a version of JBuilder every 6 months, with quality ever improving and features being added. Tony de la Lama declared war on competing products, in his campaign, targeting VisualCafe, then WebGain. Borland won these wars with JBuilder. Visual Café (formally Visual Café for Java) is an integrated development environment for the Java programming language. ... WebGain was a jointly funded venture between Warburg Pincus and BEA Systems. ...

One of the lines of intensive development was J2EE. JBuilder is now able to work with multiple application servers, and can be used for developing web services and JSPs. Another line, where developers initiative did not always find understanding in the management, is Extreme Programming. Another feature is integration with Borland's profiler, Optimizeit. Extreme Programming (XP) is a software engineering methodology, the most prominent of several agile software development methodologies. ...

In 2004, Blake Stone left Borland and joined Microsoft[1] to become the architect for the Microsoft Visual Studio Core Team [2]. Tony de la Lama left Borland and joined BEA Systems as vice president on January 2005[3]. Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... BEA Systems (NASDAQ: BEAS) is a company that specializes in application infrastructure software. ...

Lately, Eclipse, an open source platform/IDE that is modular and highly extensible, has been taking over. Borland was one of the founding members of the Eclipse Foundation. In February of 2005, Borland significantly increased its support of the Eclipse platform and joined its board of directors as a strategic developer [4]. Eclipse is an open source platform-independent software framework for delivering what the project calls rich-client applications, as opposed to thin client browser-based applications. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ...

In the second half of 2006, Borland will move to Eclipse as the underlying integration platform for JBuilder. Similar to IBM's Rational Software Architect built on top of Eclipse with a lot (14 CDs) of IBM content, Borland will add value at a higher level (creating Eclipse plug-in modules for modeling, visualization, team collaboration, etc) in its JBuilder. Until then, the latest available JBuilder version is 2006, released in September 2005.

External links

• Borland's JBuilder site
• JBuilder Roadmap FAQ May 2005 "... 'Peloton' is the code name for the first commercial JBuilder product built atop the Eclipse platform, which will be available in the first half of 2006..."