Borland Software released JBuilder 2006 - a significant upgrade of Borland's market-leading Java integrated development environment (IDE) designed to accelerate development of industrial-strength enterprise Java applications. Borland JBuilder 2006 includes new capabilities designed to help software teams more effectively collaborate in real time, even across geographic boundaries, with new peer-to-peer developer collaboration features and integrated application lifecycle support for requirements management, source code management and unit testing.

In addition, the company 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.

Both JBuilder and Optimizeit are important components of Borland's application lifecycle 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 organization.

Agile programming methodologies, which include the Extreme Programming approach, seek to mitigate the risk and impact of change in the development process to the extent software teams can harness change for their customers' competitive advantage. Because they advocate close collaboration between the development team and business experts with frequent face-to-face communication, agile methods have traditionally been relegated to smaller, highly local, self-organizing teams.

JBuilder 2006 brings agile capabilities to larger and more distributed development teams by enabling them to utilize pair programming techniques through real-time, peer-to-peer collaboration. 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 innovative technology from Borland partner Fortify Software to analyze 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.