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Borland Enhances VisiBroker With CORBA Services For Web Services

Borland Software Corp introduced the newest version of Borland Enterprise Server 6.5, VisiBroker Edition, Borland's widely deployed infrastructure solution for the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA). The company also introduced new and enhanced CORBA services for those depending on this high-performance, highly-available and scalable platform to run mission-critical applications.

Borland also announced new versions of its Borland Deployment Op-Center, Borland Janeva and Borland Enterprise Server, AppServer Edition, all of which should help simplify the delivery of distributed, heterogeneous software applications within complex IT environments.

"CORBA continues to power some of the world's most critical software systems, from global telecommunication networks to national stock exchanges and defense systems," said Thanh Tran, vice president and general manager of Borland's Enterprise Business Unit. "VisiBroker and our other deployment products enable companies to continue their investments in CORBA and be confident their high-performance legacy systems can easily integrate with and even supplement newer technologies and platforms."

"Every IT investment needs to be maximized," said Hans Herbert Langer, department manager of architecture & development at the Techniker Krankenkasse. "The performance and scalability enhancements in Borland Enterprise Server, VisiBroker edition will be very important for us, helping us to ensure our CORBA systems are able to power our most critical systems."

Improving Performance In Mission-Critical Applications

Increasing IT efficiency continues to be a top concern of CIOs today, especially in the telecommunications, government and finance sectors where real-time information access is crucial and investments in CORBA are common. Borland continues to address this need with significant performance and scalability enhancements in VisiBroker, as well as a number of new and improved add-on services that leverage CORBA's scalability, performance and reliability. These include:

VisiBroker tightly integrates with multiple development environments and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions such as Borland JBuilder, C++Builder and Delphi. This level of choice and integration should make development of new CORBA, J2EE and Web services-based applications both faster and easier. In a time when IT budgets remain tight, VisiBroker is designed to ensure a linear migration path from CORBA to other technology platforms as well as backward compatibility with previous VisiBroker versions.

Easing Deployment Challenges in Heterogeneous IT Environments

Borland today also introduced the newest version of Borland Janeva, which provides secure, reliable and high-performance interoperability between Microsoft .NET applications and J2EE and CORBA infrastructures.

Borland Janeva 6.5 is designed to bring greater efficiency and provide more synchronous communication within large, multi-user applications than Web service integrations can currently offer. This will help IT operations teams to maintain performance levels and keep costs down, while allowing them to capitalize on the strengths of multiple platforms and existing legacy investments.

With this release, Borland Janeva will expand support for more application types, including the IONA Orbix 3.x product line and Microsoft applications built on COM/DCOM architectures. Borland Janeva also includes support for partially trusted callers in the Microsoft .NET framework, allowing secured .NET applications delivered from a central server to various clients to access J2EE and CORBA infrastructures.

In addition to Borland Janeva, Borland also announced new versions of Borland Deployment Op-Center and Borland Enterprise Server, AppServer Edition to help reduce the cost and risk of deploying applications in increasingly heterogeneous and distributed environments.

Borland Deployment Op-Center 6.5 helps operations teams maintain control and availability of highly distributed software applications by providing a consolidated view of network services and the infrastructure that supports them. The solution now includes tight integration with Borland Optimizeit ServerTrace 3.0 for "right click" monitoring of J2EE application performance, as well as new configuration templates for popular J2EE application servers, including BEA WebLogic Server and IBM WebSphere Application Server. In addition to J2EE-based resources, Deployment Op-Center 6.5 can deploy and manage applications based on CORBA, the Microsoft .NET Framework or a mixture of these technologies.

Borland Enterprise Server 6.5, AppServer Edition, already one of the most reliable, scalable and high-performance application servers for the J2EE platform, now includes more performance improvements and support for Web services. The new release supports three new Java Message Service (JMS) solutions -- OpenJMS (open source), SonicMQ and Tibco Enterprise for JMS. It also provides enhanced Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) integration with Borland Optimizeit ServerTrace 3.0 for managing J2EE performance, and additional support for Java Management Extensions (JMX) to ensure applications are manageable regardless of the solution used.