Motorola Inc. said Borland, a provider of Internet access infrastructure and application development tools, will provide its JBuilder 4 Foundation development environment as part of the Motorola iDEN Subscriber Group’s developers’ tool kit.
JBuilder 4 is a set of visual development tools for building applications written entirely in the Java programming language, applets, JSP/Servlets, JavaBeans, Enterprise JavaBeans and distributed J2EE applications for the Java 2 Platform, Borland said. The software is designed to ease and speed the development process and allow developers to build, compile, debug and deploy Java-based applications.
The companies said the relationship was established in anticipation of the release of Motorola’s Java 2 MicroEdition platform-enabled handsets, expected to be available this quarter through iDEN network operators such as Nextel Communications Inc. and Southern Linc.
“Using JBuilder, developers can rapidly deliver a full spectrum of platform-independent solutions, including … Internet solutions or networked database and client/server connectivity,” said Tony de la Lama, vice president and general manager of Borland’s Java Business Unit.
The iDEN developers’ tool kit also includes Lutris Technologies Corp.’s Enhydra 3.5 Open Source wireless Internet application server. Motorola and Lutris partnered in December. At that time, Rajiv Mehta, senior marketing manager for Motorola, would not say what specific applications were in the works, and Motorola has yet to announce any new applications.
Motorola has stated it hopes to recruit more than 10,000 developers to design new iDEN applications.
JBuilder 4 Foundation supports development on the Linux, Windows and Solaris platforms, Borland said.
