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Borland: Delphi 2006 Will Build Morale


Company says next version of its IDE also will fill gaps left by Microsoft tools

By Alex Handy
December 15, 2005 —  As Microsoft marches its developers toward .NET and the future of Windows, Borland Software with the next version of Delphi has set its sights on eliminating the common annoyances that plague developers throughout a project and filling in the gaps left by Microsoft tools. The company demonstrated an early version of the new IDE at its DevCon show in San Francisco in November.

Rob Cheng, Borland’s director of product marketing, said that one of the most interesting pieces of functionality that doesn’t exist in Visual Studio is persistence. “[Developers are] familiar with J2EE object persistence and mapping [but] that doesn’t exist in .NET.” He said Borland’s Enterprise Core Objects persistence framework gives that capability to Visual Studio developers.

Stress Management
But for Borland, the new features within its well-aged IDE (Delphi turned 10 this year) are not as important as helping developers minimize their day-to-day irritations.

“There’s so many things that go on that the developer has no control over,” added Cheng, citing problems such as last-second changes, feature creep and the evolution of requirements. “All these things are happening to the developers in their day-to-day lives. Having fact-based decision tools, having requirements that link back into tools, these things offload a lot of that managing up and out that drives developers crazy.

It is a little annoying for a developer if they didn’t have some kind of auto-completion in their IDE; it’s a lot more annoying if the last two months of work are irrelevant because of some change in the requirements.”

Cheng asserted that such new features in Delphi 2006 will help developers minimize their daily stress levels.

Delphi also will refine its UML support. For teams versed in the ways of agile programming methodologies such as XP or Scrum, collaboration is simplified by Delphi’s integrated messaging and code annotation capabilities, claimed Mike Hulme, senior director of product marketing at Borland.

Also new is the inclusion of support for C, C++ and C# in a single product, a move previously announced by Borland. The new versions of Borland’s development environments will be rebranded as Borland Developer Studio, and will include Delphi 2006, C++ Builder 2006 and C# Builder 2006.

Delphi 2006 is set to be generally available by the end of this year.


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