JBuilder 2006 Buzz

The highlights of JBuilder 2006 which is expected to release this week are:

• Peer-to-peer developer collaboration
• Chat similar to IM
• Integrated application life-cycle support covering
  
  • requirements management
  • modeling
  • source code management
  • unit testing
• JBuilder 2006 represents the last major release on the Primetime platform
• JBuilder releases next year and beyond will be based on Eclipse

Patrick Kerpan, CTO of Borland, said they are working on a new generation of tools that will use Eclipse as the underlying integration framework.

A future offering, code-named Peloton and due in the first half of 2006, will be the first of Borland’s Eclipse-based products and will bring enhanced usability, advanced collaboration features, ALM (application lifecycle management) integration and enterprise-class support to Eclipse.

Source: eWeek

Check FAQ for JBuilder Roadmap for further details.