The Hindu Business Line : CodeGear offers specialised plug-ins

Bangalore, Aug. 17 CodeGear, a leader in developer tools, has launched JGear — a set of specialised plug-ins for the Eclipse open-source development platform. JGear both augments and accelerates the open-source platform and tools in three key areas — Java application performance, visual development, and team collaboration — capabilities not addressed by Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE) solutions today.

The new JGear product line includes Performance for Eclipse, LiveSource for Eclipse and Team for Eclipse (both Client and Server editions).

Performance contains a variety of performance and tuning features such as memory and CPU profiling and debugging; automatic detection of potential memory leaks; and real-time monitoring of programs’ use of virtual machine memory.

LiveSource includes a graphical EJB workbench and Web services designer that eases RAD for both novice and experienced J2EE developers; while Team offers a complete agile team collaboration and development system based on open-source components.

“Fractured approaches to software development lead to disconnects in quality, inefficiency, and high costs,” said Melinda Ballou, Program Director of Application Life Cycle Management service at IDC.“Today developers and teams deal with these problems manually. JGear enables developers using Eclipse-based IDEs to address these daily challenges and develop high-performance Java and Web applications more quickly, easily, and collaboratively,” said Michael Swindell, CodeGear Vice-President of Products and Strategy, in a release.