JBuilder from Borland is a complete suite of tools for enterprise Java development. JBuilder 2007 was released this week by Borland. As promised earlier this is based on Eclipse platform and can be extended by open source plugins and tools. Also included is a migration wizard which can port earlier JBuilder projects to new Eclipse platform. JBuilder 2007 is available in 3 flavors namely Developer,Professional and Enterprise. Professional contains optimizeIT for profiling and debugging, while Enterprise is for distributed teams and complex projects across multiple locations.

Key new features of JBuilder 2007

• Java EE 5 compliance and supports EJB3.0 specification. Also contains a new visual EJB editor.
• LiveSource support from together suite. This technology keeps models, design and code in sync. This is now extended to Web services as well.
• Team collaboration tools such as Team Insight and Project Insight.
• OptimizeIT profiler for memory profiling and debugging.

JBuilder 2007 Enterprise Edition is priced $2000 per user, down from $3,500. A developer version priced around $500 per user.