JBUILDER 5 NEW FEATURES
JBuilder 5 makes Java development easier than ever with more than 100 new and enhanced features.
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
Merant® PVCS™ Specific **
PVCS management through SCC
Pull and Post files from and to PVCS project
Create project from VS Place JBuilder project into VSS
** Ships separately on Companion Tools CD; for Windows platform only; no Borland technical support available.
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 Servers
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
Enterprise Deployment Archives (EAR)
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
Sitraka™ JClass™ development license
/n software IP*Works! Beans Internet components development license
