Borland Software at JavaOne announced a three-year roadmap for its JBuilder Java developer environment.
Featured in the roadmap is an update to JBuilder 2006 and a new framework based on Eclipse in JBuilder 2007, which is codenamed "Peloton" and shipping in the fourth quarter of this year.
A free JBuilder 2006 Foundation edition is available now and two JBuilder 2006 updates are planned for release later in 2006. An update due in June will support Java SE 6, the "Mustang" release of Java; an additional service pack will ship once Mustang is formally released by Sun Microsystems this fall.
Peloton will provide simplified access to Eclipse plug-ins as well as enhanced support for visual EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) and Web services design and development. An intent-based user interface planned for Peloton provides a consolidated view of project responsibilities.
The roadmap also includes Web development tooling and support for open source systems. An SOA cockpit for building SOA applications also is planned.
Future versions of JBuilder also are expected to back additional open source tools and frameworks such as Spring, Hibernate and Shale as well as further integrations with application lifecycle management products from Borland and others. The latest versions of application servers and Java standards also will be supported.
Borland has expressed intentions to sell off its developer tools so it can focus on the application lifecycle management space.
Posted by Paul Krill on May 17, 2006 10:46 AM
