Sun Microsystems has announced its choice of Embarcadero Technologies` Describe as its preferred UML (Unified Modelling Language) solution for its Sun ONE Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Describe is designed to provide application modelling functionality directly within the IDE, providing developers with a familiar and productive development environment.
As a consequence, Sun plans to bundle application modelling software from Embarcadero with its Java programming tools to allow development teams to build models of software applications using the. Describe plugs into Sun ONE Studio and integrate it with its messaging and file-sharing functions.
Mark Herring, senior director of marketing, Java Web services and tools at Sun Microsystems, notes: "As the industry`s top independent UML modelling tool, Describe complements Sun ONE Studio and will further enhance application developer productivity. Sun developers can have access to a comprehensive, model-driven solution within the familiar development environment of Sun ONE Studio that will help reduce time to solution by seamlessly bridging the gap between model-driven development approaches and powerful tools for writing, deploying and testing Java code."
This newest version, Describe 6.0, is an entirely re-architected UML-driven integrated modelling development environment leveraging current common standards and progressive graphics. The Sun ONE user community will be the first to leverage new functionality and usability features in Describe 6.0. Describe provides Java technology developers with a tightly integrated, model-driven development environment.
It allows non-programmers to view the steps in an application under construction without reading the source code. Also, it enables application modellers and developers to work together in one seamless design and development environment, eliminating the inherent friction and inefficiencies that have long existed between these processes. This release also adds enhanced usability with UML model and Java source code synchronisation, advanced source code control integration and advanced Web-based reporting.
Describe includes a bridge to ER/Studio, Embarcadero`s database design tool that allows an application to be developed with the database model in mind and vice versa, creating better, more efficient applications in less time.
"The pressure on organisations to deliver high-quality applications continues to grow, requiring a streamlined process that eliminates the traditional friction and inefficiencies between application modelling and development," says Alan Raubenheimer, CEO of Embarcadero Africa.
"The level of seamless integration that Embarcadero has achieved between modelling and the developer`s IDE in the 6.0 release will ensure a dramatic reduction in time to delivery for Sun ONE developers modelling their code. Embarcadero is planning to extend its relationship with Sun to further improve the quality of application development for Sun developers."
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