Borland has today released JBuilder 2006. The updated software is designed to help software teams accelerate agile Java application development, even among geographically dispersed development teams. In addition, the company has also introduced a new version of its Optimizeit application performance management toolkit, Borland's latest solution for isolating and resolving performance hazards during the development of J2EE applications.

Borland JBuilder 2006 provides new real-time, peer-to-peer collaboration capabilities that enable distributed teams to take advantage of pair programming development techniques. It is the first major integrated development environment (IDE) to offer such capabilities, giving software teams a unique tool that allows local and remote developers to jointly design, edit and debug applications in real time. JBuilder 2006 also automatically discovers other clients on the network, allowing users to form ad-hoc collaboration sessions and share projects, including stack traces, files, and debugging sessions.

'Software development has become more complex than ever, as IT organisations are driven to do more with less, platforms and standards multiply, and development teams cross geographies and time zones,' said Boz Elloy, senior vice president of products at Borland. 'In order to thrive in this new era, developers have to be able to work in unison, as a team, regardless of where they are. JBuilder 2006 enables remote teams to build software with the same feel as if they were in the same room, offering larger and dispersed teams the same levels of productivity previously reserved for smaller, localised teams.'

Borland says both JBuilder and Optimizeit are important components of its application life-cycle management (ALM) solution. The new versions being introduced today are tightly integrated with other Borland ALM products including the CaliberRM requirements management solution, giving developers integrated tools to increase their own productivity as well as that of the entire software organisation.

New peer-to-peer collaboration features enable developers to jointly perform code editing, visual design, and debugging tasks in real-time, and distributed re-factoring and change management capabilities automatically propagate local changes to remote projects and provide automatic notification of changes to requirements. Using JBuilder 2006, two or more programmers can work together in unison, collaborate on the same design, algorithm, code or test, address difficult challenges and generate new ideas.

JBuilder 2006 is also designed to give developers the tools they need to help identify and reduce security hazards throughout the development process. JBuilder includes technology from Borland partner Fortify Software to analyse code and identify security vulnerabilities using best practices and automated code audits.

JBuilder 2006 will be available for customer shipments in mid-September, and Optimizeit 2006 is now available. Customers on JBuilder and Optimizeit support and maintenance, or those renewing their agreements, will be entitled to JBuilder 2006 and Optimizeit 2006, respectively, at no extra charge.

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