JBuilder is the perfect tool for creating pure Java business and database applications

JBuilder

JBuilder is the most comprehensive award-winning visual development environment for building applications, applets, JSP/Servlets, JavaBeans, Enterprise JavaBeans and distributed J2EE applications for the Java 2 Platform.

JBuilder 5 Professional

JBuilder 5 Professional is a comprehensive, award-winning visual development environment for creating Java 2, platform-independent database and Web applications. Only JBuilder 5 combines a rapid application development environment for building and deploying JavaBeans, applets, JSPs, and servlets; Java XML development including presentation, transformation and validation; plus advanced debugging, and Web and database tools.

JBuilder 5 Enterprise

JBuilder 5 Enterprise is the most comprehensive, award-winning visual development environment for creating end-to-end solutions on the Java 2 Enterprise platform. Rapidly develop and deploy J2EE applications to multiple application servers including WebLogic, WebSphere, and the integrated Borland AppServer. Deliver distributed Java 2 applications with Enterprise JavaBeans and remote debugging. Develop Java XML applications for publishing and validating XML documents as well as transferring data between XML and databases. Connect business logic and Web-based front ends seamlessly using InternetBeans Express. Build data-driven Web applications, servlets, and JSPs. Efficiently collaborate as a team with support for leading version control systems.

JBuilder 5 Features

JBuilder 5 makes it easier than ever to build and deploy Java applications with more than 100 new and enhanced features including:

Triple-Cross-Platform development - with new support for three leading application servers (Borland AppServer, WebLogic and WebSphere), three version control systems (ClearCase, Visual SourceSafe and CVS) and three development platforms (Windows, Linux and Solaris).

Bringing Java and XML together - take advantage of the latest technology for data exchange and presentation. JBuilder includes fully-integrated and comprehensive XML development support for the entire development cycle including creation, manipulation, transformation/presentation and integration.

Enhanced enterprise development and deployment to J2EE application servers - including new support for WebLogic 6, WebSphere and new Borland AppServer 4.5. Plus easily create enterprise deployment archives (EAR).

Improved team productivity - with new integration with three leading version control systems Rational ClearCase and Microsoft Visual SourceSafe.

Productivity

Increase productivity with the most comprehensive set of award-winning visual development tools for creating end-to-end solutions on the Java 2 Enterprise platform.

Developer Productivity

VisualAge for Java form designer support
Themed audio feedback with customizable audio themes

AppBrowser Editor features

Macintosh keymap
CodeWarrior for Mac keymap

BeansExpress for rapidly creating Java components

Enhanced! Creation of property getter/setter methods from existing members
Synchronized scrolling between BeansExpress and implementation code
Iterative design of EJB Entity Beans

Wizards

Web Start wizard creates JNLP and generates home page with Java plug-in detection

Deployment with Archive Builder

Enhanced! Archive Builder wizard to quickly build deployable archive types for Applets, Applications, JavaBeans and OpenTools
Web archive (WAR) support for packaging Web applications
Enhanced! Java archive and PkZIP (JAR and ZIP) format support
Web Start Applet and Application packaging support
Deployment of user defined file types
Adding multiple classes or entire packages to deployment archive
J2EE application client packaging
Resource adapters archive (RAR) support for packaging J2EE EIS connectors
Enterprise archive (EAR) support for packaging an entire set of components of an application

Sample Applications

XML tutorial showing examples of validation, databinding, XSL, database import/output and more
Borland bookstore application to demonstrate InternetBeans Express with DataExpress for EJB and more

JBuilder installation support

Product uninstall
Dynamic product license registration
Product install from server
Generic product installation for unsupported platforms
CVS client installation

Java/XML Development

Take advantage of the cross-platform Extensible Markup Language (XML). Transform XML documents with source and browser views of both XML and HTML output. Validate XML document structures and trace errors. JBuilder makes it easy to transfer data between XML and database files with tools to define structure and rules; data binding, and programmatic manipulation of XML documents.

Generic XML Support

Project support for XML file types: XSD, XSP, DTD, XSL, MAP (XML-DBMS), WML, XHTML
Browser based XML viewer
Tree view for XML in browser view

XML Environment

JAXP and DOM integrated library integration
Xerces (XML) and Xalan (XSLT) integration
Validation with error tracing
Transformation with source and browser view of both XML and HTML output
Transform trace for selection, generation and templates
Cocoon publishing engine integration for creating XML web applications
XML based Web application projects with Cocoon runtime integration

JavaBeans Binding and Persistence

Generate XML instance from DTD
Generate DTD from XML
Generate Java classes from DTD
Generate Java classes from Schema
Open architecture for 3rd party data-binding solutions

Advanced XML Support

SAX parser generator wizard
XML ModelTableBean and XML ModelSQLBean to import/export DTD/XML data from or to relational databases
XML TemplateTableBean and XML TemplateSQLBean to transform automatically generated XSL style sheets from XML to HTML
XML mapping generation from DBMS
XML SQL generation from DBMS
XML SQLBean and XML TemplateSQLBean to generate XML packets complying to Borland XML DTD on declarative SQL templates

Team Development

JBuilder 5 simplifies the concurrent management of source code for large distributed teams with support for Rational ClearCase, CVS, and Microsoft Visual SourceSafe. Extend existing source code management across corporate networks and the Internet by using the integrated concurrent version system repository engine with a highly productive workflow model. Use the history revision browser to update and resolve revision conflicts visually by reconciling changes between workspace and repository, including source-level difference display of distinct source revisions and conflict navigation in the source editor. Plus to-do lists and to-do Javadoc comments help keep track of work in progress.

Supported Version Control Systems

Enhanced! CVS (Concurrent Version System) support
Rational ClearCase version 4.1 support
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe support
Merant PVCS Version Manager and Dimension support through SCC

Integrated Team Development

Check out from branch
Set version label: per file, per branch, per project
Synchronized scrolling between source and history pane
Difference view of arbitrary files

CVS Specific

Create local CVS repository
Enhanced! CVS commit browser to resolve conflicts
CVS file locking support with edit, un-edit and watches
CVS server add-on to list projects and branches
Create project from CVS repository

Rational ClearCase Specific

View editor for selecting, creating and modifying ClearCase views
Checking in and checking out file to and from Version Object Base (VOB) view and undo check-out
Direct protocol support for ClearCase
Create project from VOB
Place project into VOB

Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS) Specific

VSS commit browser to resolve conflicts
Pull and Post files from and to VSS project
Direct protocol support for VSS
Create project from VSS
Place JBuilder project into VSS

Web Development

JBuilder 5 makes Web development easier with new Tomcat 3.2 servlet engine integration, Web deployment wizards, Java Web Start support, WAR archives, an integrated Web browser and runtime environment for servlets and JSP, remote debugging of servlets, J2EE 1.3-complaint Web development support including tag libraries, filters, and Web deployment descriptors including WAR files.

Web Development

Servlet Engine Integration
Tomcat 3.2 with Servlet 2.2 and JSP 1.1
Ready for Tomcat 4.0 with Servlet 2.3 and JSP 1.2
Servlet engine OpenTools sample documentation
WebLogic 5.1 and 6.0 Servlet engine support

Web Deployment

Advanced error detection of embedded Java source in JSP, by pre-compile before deploy to Servlet engine
Web Start Application wizard
Web Start Applet wizard
WAR Web application archives
Two-way descriptor editor according to Servlet 2.2/2.3 specification

Java Web Start support

Java Web Start ready applications (JNLP) creation
Java Network Launching Protocol (JNLP) support v1.0.0
Web Start homepage generation with Java plug-in detection

Integrated Web Development

Unified configuration of AppServer for JSP, Servlet and EJB when used as Web server
JavaScript execution and viewing for most common JavaScript tasks

Advanced Web Development for Java Servlet support

Servlet 2.3 filters and listeners

Enterprise Application Development

Rapidly develop with Enterprise JavaBeans and deploy J2EE applications, Enterprise Archives (EAR), Resource Archives (RAR) and Web Archives (RAR) for seamless deployment to new WebLogic 6, WebSphere and new Borland AppServer 4.5. Use the improved EJB Test Client wizard, new DataExpress for EJB and the enhanced entity bean modeler to build and deploy distributed applications more quickly than ever before.

Supported Application Serverst

Borland AppServer (BAS) 4.5 with EJB 1.1 and J2EE 1.2
Enhanced! BEA WebLogic 5.1 with EJB 1.1
BEA WebLogic 6.0 with EJB 1.1 and J2EE 1.2
IBM WebSphere 3.5 with EJB 1.0

Supported Application Serverst

EJB Archives according to J2EE 1.2 specification
EAR Group file nodes
Import existing external archives into EAR group
Import from existing EJB groups
EAR packaging, deployment and run for Borland AppServer 4.5 and WebLogic 6
J2EE application client JAR files

EJB Test Client wizard

Boundary testing
Generate test clients from a pre-packaged EJB archive

DataExpress for EJB

DataExpress for EJB for seamless access of session beans and entity beans through DataExpress
DataExpress access beans SessionBeanConnection, EJBClientDataSet, EntityBeanProvider, EntityBeanResolver to connect back-end business logic to any front-end seamlessly

Rapid J2EE compliant development and deployment

Local and remote Hot-Deploy deployment to running EJB container
JMS wizard for creating message producers and consumers
Generate or update source implementation skeletons from remote interface
Resource adapters archive (RAR) support for packaging J2EE EIS connectors

Entity Bean Modeler

Enhanced! User defined mapping between table metadata and Java data types
Generate BMP source code from table relations

Borland AppServer (BAS, formerly IAS)

Borland AppServer 4.5 development license, a complete EJB 1.1 implementation
VisiBroker 4.5 for CORBA ORB with full support for OMG 2.3 spec and integration into BAS

BEA WebLogic Server Support

Integrated WebLogic Server 6.0 (EJB 1.1) development support
Enhanced! Integrated WebLogic Server 5.1.x development support

IBM WebSphere Server Support

Integrated WebSphere 3.5 development support
Support for BMP Entity Bean creation
Targeted deployment to WebSphere Server
Integrated Two-Way-Tools for managing and deploying beans, including Deployment Descriptor Editor, Entity Bean Modeler and more

3rd Party Tools Integration