Borland said yesterday it had joined the Java Tools Community (JTC) as a core member, to assist work on improving features and the interoperability of Java tools
Company chief technology officer Pat Kerpan, told Sun’s annual JavaOne conference in San Francisco, California, Borland is working towards interoperability of artifacts.
Borland’s software manages the application lifecycle, and uses so-called artifacts as a means of simplifying development. Artifacts can be assets, such as models that are built using Unified Modeling Language (UML) in Borland’s Together environment.
We think we can be the voice of the developer to promote evolution of java tech and tools, Kerpan said.
Borland, like fellow Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) tools market leader IBM Corp, made the news when BEA, Sun and others announced JTC by remaining outside the organization. Borland, at the time, expressed concern over the JTC’s structure and ability to deliver specifications that help organizations develop better tools for Java.
Borland vice president and general manager of developer tools George Paolini, told ComputerWire yesterday: We are getting enough of a sense of where the JTC is going that we should get in there as a part of it.
JTC’s objective is to discuss and create Java Specification Requests (JSRs) that feed into the JCP’s community-based development process. The goal is that JSRs are incorporated into official JCP specifications, ultimately making it easier for developers to build applications and increasing the number of developers building Java applications.
