“As companies increasingly look to move more of their business on-line, they will need to develop scalable, well-architected software systems that can handle the demands of the Internet,” said Anne Thomas Manes, a senior consultant with Patricia Seybold Group. “COOL:Joe provides both the technology and the method – EJBs and component-based development – that developers need to deliver distributed e-business solutions. With features like SMART Options, COOL:Joe gives developers valuable tools to help them reduce errors and improve productivity.”

COOL:Joe simplifies creating applications with EJBs by combining the most recent Java technology with proven best practices for component-based development. COOL:Joe is the latest addition to the COOL product suite, which enables organizations to take advantage of emerging e-business opportunities while leveraging legacy systems and preserving ongoing flexibility.

“We’re excited to see the incorporation of Enterprise JavaBeans technology in enterprise-scale development tools like COOL:Joe,” said Ann Betser, senior product manager, Enterprise JavaBeans Technology, Sun Microsystems. “By providing an easy-to-use development environment that focuses on delivering EJB components, Sterling Software gives developers a powerful way to deliver distributed systems,” she said.

“COOL:Joe represents the marriage of cutting-edge Java technologies, with Sterling Software’s proven experience in component-based development,” said Mike Jones, product line director for COOL:Joe. “COOL:Joe gives developers a way to harness the power of EJB components, without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure or technology requirements, paving the way for our customers to leverage their existing IT resources to deliver new e-business applications.”

COOL:Joe Features

• Integrated Component Modeling and Management: COOL:Joe combines component modeling and management to provide the first component architecture design and modeling environment integrated with a Java development environment. The architecture, the model, the resulting components and their implementations as EJB components are all contained within a single tool. No other tool automatically generates EJB components from specifications. 
  
  
• Advanced Wizards: COOL:Joe uses advanced wizards to automate the development effort, from transforming a component specification to creating the Java classes and EJB framework, from creating and editing business logic to generating a test harness, to debugging, building and deploying EJB technology. In fact, most of the effort in creating an EJB component is accomplished using wizards.
  
  
• UML Class Diagram: COOL:Joe provides a UML 1.3 Class Diagram for modeling class structures. The Class diagram utilizes automatic layout placement to model component types, interfaces and class structures, providing a clear visualization of complex relationships in an easy-to-understand format.
  
  
• Smart Options: Smart Options, such as Smart Expansions, Smart Macros, and Smart Methods, help companies get the most out of their development teams. Smart Expansions provide common code fragments to be built and shared across the development team, which are accessible within the COOL:Joe Editor. Smart Macros extend the COOL:Joe development environment to automate processes for the development team. Smart Methods reduce coding errors by leveraging the power of an object repository. 
  
  
• Integrated Editor and Interactive Debugger: The COOL:Joe Editor lets the developer quickly create and edit business logic in Java, as well as edit all the related files including HTML, JavaServer Pages╘, and text files. The Editor includes a syntax parser and is integrated with an interactive debugger, which makes coding much faster. 
  

• Round-trip Engineering: COOL:Joe’s models are based on an object-oriented repository, which allows the development team to make dynamic changes to the component architecture as it evolves. COOL:Joe's complete support for round-trip engineering synchronizes changes in code with changes in the model. And, any existing Java code can be leveraged by importing it into the model, and changes are reflected at any point in the development and implementation process.
  
  

The COOL Products
Sterling Software’s Application Development Group is a leading provider of products and services for e-business solutions. The COOL products offer a full range of enterprise application development capabilities including e-business modeling, enterprise application integration, legacy reuse and distributed component generation and assembly. The COOL product line is designed to help companies compete in an Internet-based economy.

About Sterling Software
Sterling Software is a leading provider of software and services for the application development, business intelligence, information management, storage management, network management, VM systems management, and federal systems markets. The company is one of the 20 largest independent software companies in the world. Headquartered in Dallas, Sterling Software has a worldwide installed base of more than 20,000 customer sites and 3,700 employees in 90 offices worldwide. For more information on Sterling Software, visit the company’s Web site at http://www.sterling.com and for more information on COOL:Joe, please visit http://www.sterling.com/cooljoe.

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