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Three new Eclipse tool plug-ins help Java developers increase performance and productivity on Eclipse and open-source tooling
August 13, 2007: 08:30 AM EST
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.-- CodeGear, a leader
in developer tools, today announced JGear(TM), a set of specialized
plug-ins for the Eclipse open-source development platform. JGear both
augments and accelerates the open-source platform and tools in three
key areas -- Java application performance, visual development, and team
collaboration -- capabilities not addressed by Eclipse-based integrated
development environment (IDE) solutions today.
The top pain points for Java developers using Eclipse stem from the difficulties of:
-- application performance tuning
-- Java code archeology
-- coding and configuring Java servers and frameworks
-- team collaboration
"Today developers and teams deal with these problems manually.
JGear enables developers using Eclipse-based IDEs to address these
daily challenges and develop high-performance Java and web applications
more quickly, easily, and collaboratively," said Michael Swindell,
CodeGear Vice President of Products and Strategy. "Our aim with JGear
is to help developers and teams using Eclipse-based IDE solutions to
increase both their developer and application performance as well as
their overall project success rate."
The capabilities in JGear were first introduced with CodeGear's
JBuilder(R) 2007, an IDE built on Eclipse that combines the advantages
of an Eclipse open-source platform with JBuilder's award-winning visual
development functionality, ease of use, application performance tuning,
and team collaborative features.
"With JGear, we are extending these benefits to developers and
organizations who are using an internally configured Eclipse platform
or a commercial Eclipse-based IDE. A fundamental principle of
CodeGear's Eclipse strategy is to help developers accelerate their
productivity and success using Eclipse and open-source technologies,"
said Swindell.
The new JGear product line includes -- JGear(TM) Performance for
Eclipse, JGear(TM) LiveSource(R) for Eclipse, and JGear(TM) Team for
Eclipse (both Client and Server editions).
Performance and tuning for Java
-- JGear Performance for Eclipse contains a variety of performance and
tuning features such as memory and CPU profiling and debugging;
automatic detection of potential memory leaks; and real-time monitoring
of programs' use of virtual machine memory.
Two-way visual development for Java code and servers
-- JGear LiveSource for Eclipse includes a graphical EJB workbench and Web
services designer that eases RAD for both novice and experienced J2EE
developers; Unified Modeling Language visualization of code artifacts
and design for analyzing an application's design and implementation;
CodeGear's LiveSource technology that simultaneously replicates changes
to models in the code and vice versa to aid alignment between software
architects and developers; and easy creation of Enterprise JavaBeans
and model relationships.
Streamlined collaborative development
-- JGear Team for Eclipse offers a complete agile team collaboration and
development system based on open-source components. JGear Team is both
a turnkey server solution and an Eclipse developer client solution.
JGear Team Server is a full team development server stack based on
best of breed open-source components such as Subversion, Bugzilla,
Continuum, and XPlanner. JGear Team Server includes
ProjectAssist(TM) -- the JGear Team administrator client for simple
single-click server installation and configuration, team project
creation, user administration and setup.
JGear Team Client is an Eclipse plug-in based on
TeamInsight(TM) -- an innovative collaboration foundation first
introduced in JBuilder 2007 which provides individual developers a
unified, real-time view of their project responsibilities and spot
bugs, change requests, code notes, and tasks. JGear Team Client also
includes team collaboration extensions to the Eclipse open-source Mylyn
project (formerly called Mylar). Mylyn is the task-focused UI for
Eclipse that reduces information overload and makes multi-tasking
easier by making tasks a first class part of Eclipse, and integrating
rich and offline editing for repositories such as Bugzilla, Trac, and
JIRA. CodeGear actively supports Mylyn and has recently contributed
new requirements for management capabilities to the Mylyn open-source
project.
"Fractured approaches to software development lead to disconnects
in quality, inefficiency, and high costs," said Melinda Ballou, Program
Director of Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) service at IDC, a
research and advisory services company headquartered in Framingham,
Mass. "Eclipse developers and others benefit from close coordination
across testing, modeling, visual development, project management and a
consistent and integrated user experience across change requests,
bug-tracking, code editing, and other areas of code management."
U.S. Pricing and Availability
The JGear plug-ins will be available on or about August 20 in
English, German, French and Japanese. All three plug-ins are available
for Eclipse 3.2, and CodeGear intends to include support for the
recently announced Eclipse version, Europa, later this year.
JGear Performance for Eclipse 3.2 costs $299, JGear LiveSource for
Eclipse 3.2 is $299, JGear Team Client for Eclipse 3.2 is $399 and
JGear Team Server for Eclipse 3.2 is $599. All support Microsoft
Windows(R), Mac OS(R)X, and Red Hat(R) Linux(R) Enterprise 4 -- except
JGear Performance which supports Windows and Linux only, and JGear Team
Server for Eclipse 3.2 which supports Windows only.
JGear is also an ideal complement to CodeGear's Turbo JBuilder
2007, which offers a free, turnkey, developer-focused and Eclipse-based
Java IDE which can easily be upgraded with JBuilder's RAD productivity,
code performance, and team development features.
JGear joins CodeGear's full line of developer tools which, in
addition to JBuilder, include Ruby on Rails; InterBase(TM);
C++Builder(TM); and Delphi(R) for Win32, .NET and PHP solutions. For
more information on JGear or other CodeGear products, visit
http://www.codegear.com.
About CodeGear
CodeGear from Borland Software Corporation delivers innovative,
high-productivity development tools for a wide spectrum of software
developers ranging from individuals to enterprise teams. CodeGear
products enable developers to freely develop on their platform of
choice while focusing on simplifying complex technologies and tasks so
they can concentrate on application design, not infrastructure, to
enable on-time project delivery. To learn more about CodeGear and its
products, visit http://www.codegear.com. CodeGear. Where Developers
Matter.
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