Assembly Line Standard Edition, part of InLine's Assembly Line product family, is designed to automate the process of building EJBs - making it easier, safer and faster to build, test, deploy, maintain and upgrade enterprise-scale applications based on Sun Microsystems' Enterprise JavaBeans technology. A software plug-in, Assembly Line Standard extends the functionality of IDEs such as Borland's JBuilder. JBuilder 3 supports the JavaÖ 2 platform and provides a comprehensive set of tools for creating pure Java applications, applets, servlets, JavaBeans, and EJBs. Together, Borland's rapid application development tool and the unprecedented level of automation that InLine brings to EJB development give individual and corporate developers an even more efficient way to create powerful, platform-independent Java, business, database, and Web-based applications.

"The combination of Borland and InLine products and technologies is a natural fit for enterprise application development. Borland's JBuilder is the fastest-growing Java development tool in the marketplace, and Assembly Line is garnering reseller and integration partnerships with major IDE and application server vendors across the board," said John F. Salimbene, InLine's vice president of marketing. "JBuilder's phenomenal success with customers, analysts, the media, and the industry as a whole presents a major opportunity for us."

"We are delighted that InLine has chosen to integrate Assembly Line Standard with JBuilder, our award-winning Java development tool," said Jeff Barca-Hall, vice president of research and development at Borland. "With InLine's Assembly Line product family, developers not only get the speed, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of an automated EJB-manufacturing tool, they also get the flexibility and openness they need to deploy platform-independent applications. The combination of Assembly Line and JBuilder enables customers to take full advantage of the benefits of EJB-based applications for business operations and e-commerce."

InLine launched the Assembly Line product family in February with the beta version of Assembly Line Basic. Assembly Line Basic 1.0, the production release, is available now for downloading from InLine's Web site at www.inline-software.com.

General availability for the Standard Edition is planned for the end of April. The Standard Edition will extend the Basic Edition with user interface integration, enhanced bean assembly and resource management. It will support multiple IDEs, including Borland's JBuilder, as announced today, and multiple EJB Application Servers. Support for additional EJB development environments and application servers will be announced as they become available.

In addition to a growing list of business partners, InLine has also won the favor of analysts. Dave Kelly, vice president of the Hurwitz Group's Application Strategies division, said recently that "InLine Software's Assembly Line addresses these issues [i.e., the need for organizations to 'implement evolving component standards such as EJB in a way that reduces risk, ensures flexibility, and provides some level of abstraction'] by automating the EJB development process and providing flexibility on the EJB deployment side." Anne Thomas, editor-in-chief of Patricia Seybold's Distributed Computing Monitor, succinctly agreed: "Anyone who wants to produce portable Enterprise JavaBeans should consider InLine's software."

Assembly Line Professional Edition, which will provide a full set of services for model-driven development, is scheduled for release later this year. It will be followed by the Enterprise Edition with additional functionality for the development of industrial-strength components for global applications.

Pricing and Availability
Users will be able to download Assembly Line Standard 1.0 from Borland in June, shortly after the Standard Edition becomes available in wide release. Pricing for a single developer license of Assembly Line Standard is $495.

About InLine Software Corporation
InLine Software Corporation, based in Sterling, Virginia, was launched in August 1998, with the mission of providing technology that simplifies the assembly of business applications for competitive advantage. For more information on InLine's Assembly Line products and download procedures, see http://www.inline-software.com.

About Borland
Borland enhances the productivity of independent and corporate software developers through its Borland family of visual development and embedded database tools - and through borland.com, the premier Web destination for software developers. In addition to its award-winning Delphi, C++Builder, JBuilder, MIDAS and InterBase products, Borland's borland.com website offers an online community and E-commerce site for software developers seeking a wide range of technical information, support services, and third-party products. Based in Scotts Valley, California, Borland is a division of Inprise Corporation (Nasdaq:INPR) - a leading provider of solutions that simplify the complexity of software application development.