Borland JBuilder, a First Look

In the words of Blake Stone, JBuilder’s architect, “from day one the goal of the JBuilder team was to push the limits of Java.” This goal was realized in large part by writing substantial portions of JBuilder in Java.

Thus, the very existence of JBuilder has been a Java success story. This is also a reason that JBuilder has won a number of awards for simply being a decent Java product, let alone other awards for being the best IDE for developing Java programs.

From the release of version 1.0 in 1997, JBuilder has gone from a Java/Delphi product to one that is 100% Pure Java. This is neither a mere philosophical improvement nor a sheer marketing move; it affects the way JBuilder itself may be enhanced and improved ...

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