BEA Systems and Enerjy Software have announced they are
expanding Java tools efforts while MKS is focusing on boosting
Microsoft’s Visual Studio .net development platform.
BEA is unveiling an enhanced version of its BEA dev2dev site for
Java developers, adding a collaborative development tool called
dev2dev CodeShare.
Based on the CollabNet Enterprise Edition development offering,
CodeShare is a bi-directional collaborative workspace designed to
help developers share code and discuss issues.
CodeShare includes tools for knowledge management, communication
management, and project administration for open-source
projects.
"We want to organise dev2dev developers that want to contribute
toward open-source projects and get them away from individual
contributions and encourage group contributions," said Andreas
Angelides, community manager at CollabNet.
An example of a project developers could work on is the Eclipse
plug-in to BEA’s WebLogic Server.
Projects maintained within CodeShare feature a web-based
workspace and the ability to communicate with team members.
CollabNet Software Configuration Management (SCM) is featured to
track source code changes.
Developers on dev2dev also can participate in a portal that
offers collaborative tools, newsgroups, best practices, technical
content, and other features. Also unveiled on the dev2dev portal
was technical content from O’Reilly Media.
Enerjy released Edition 6 of its Java suite of tools, which
includes Code Analyzer, Memory Profiler, Performance Profiler, and
Thread Profiler. The new release is intended to enable developers
to focus more on code while working more efficiently, the company
said.
New features in Code Analyzer include rule priority, in which a
rule can be assigned a priority, and file filters, for optionally
ignoring certain files within a project and filtering files by
specific name or by folder structures.
Memory Profiler and Performance Profiler offer "on-the-fly
profiling", in which configuration settings can be changed on the
fly while an application is being profiled, without requiring
restart of the application.
The three Profiler tools in the suite feature a "status view"
function, presenting a status view when profiling sessions,
displaying heap size, and the running or blocking state of each
thread while the application is running.
Developers can take snapshots; clear collected data; and pause,
resume, or terminate an application. The Profiler tools also
feature a "table export" function for exporting tables of data to
files in both comma-separated and tab-delimited format, and then
allowing for viewing, printing, or charting of the data.
Individual tools in the Enerjy suite are priced at $295 (£160)
each.
MKS announced expanded integration into the Visual Studio .net
2003 development platform, linking the MKS Integrity Manager
product for process and workflow directly to the developer
desktop.
Through the Integrity Manager "worktray", developers can receive
work assignments, run queries, and review and update work without
stepping outside of the Visual Studio .net IDE.
Software changes are linked to approved development tasks,
providing for traceability of work and aiding in compliance
initiatives and IT audits.
Integration between Integrity Manager 4.6 and Visual Studio .net
2003 is available now.
Paul Krill writes for InfoWorld