Borland announced the shipment and immediate availability of JBuilder Standard Edition and JBuilder Professional earlier this week. JBuilder Client/Server Suite is scheduled for release later this year.

"Borland and Netscape are both committed to supporting the 100% Pure Java standard," said Zack Urlocker, Borland's vice president of product management. "Netscape's support of JDK 1.1 gives our customers the confidence that any application, applet, or JavaBean built in JBuilder will run in Netscape Communicator. Netscape has created a great deal of awareness and momentum for Java by providing strong support for it in Netscape Communicator. By bundling Netscape Communicator with JBuilder, the company is further strengthening its support of open standards, which greatly benefit the Internet community at large."

"The delivery of second-generation development tools such as JBuilder will enable Java developers to more easily create powerful and versatile leading-edge applications," said Danny Shader, vice president of partner and developer relations at Netscape. "Bundling Netscape Communicator with JBuilder is terrific news for developers. The two products are highly complementary and represent the strong momentum behind the 100% Pure Java standard. This pairing is an excellent example of Netscape's firm commitment to open standards and its drive to expand the number of multiplatform, 'net-centric' applications available to users."

Borland JBuilder is a family of highly productive visual development tools for creating high-performance, platform-independent applications using the Java programming language. The JBuilder scalable, component-based environment is designed for all levels of corporate information network (Information Network) development projects ranging from applets and applications that require networked database connectivity to client/server and enterprise-wide, distributed multi-tier systems. As part of Borland's Golden Gate strategy to support major industry standards in all of its tools, the JBuilder open environment will support 100% Pure Java, JDK 1.1, JavaBeans, JFC, AFC, RMI,CORBA, JDBC, and all major corporate database servers.

Netscape recently announced the expansion of its extensive support for Java with the beta delivery of JDK 1.1 in Netscape Communicator. Netscape Communicator's support for JDK 1.1 delivers full support for JavaBeans and the JavaBeans component model. It enables Netscape Communicator users to access Java applications built using tools such as JBuilder that support JDK 1.1's advanced functionality.

Netscape Communications Corporation is a leading provider of open software for linking people and information over enterprise networks and the Internet. The company offers a full line of clients, servers, development tools and commercial applications to create a complete platform for next-generation, live online applications. Traded on Nasdaq under the symbol NSCP, Netscape Communications Corporation is based in Mountain View, California.

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Borland: Making Development Easier
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