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