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Compuware Unveils OptimalJ 3.2, Uniting Analysis, Design and Testing
Leading Model-Driven Tool Includes New Features to Enhance Productivity
for the Entire Development Team
London, 28th June 2004 - Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR)
today unveiled the latest version of Compuware OptimalJ, the company's
advanced, model-driven pattern-based (MDPB) development environment. New
features in Compuware OptimalJ 3.2 further expand the product's coverage
across all phases of the development life-cycle and enhance OptimalJ's
value and usability for all members of the development team.
Development teams use Compuware OptimalJ to generate standards-based
applications directly from UML models, greatly speeding application development
while improving quality and maintainability. Compuware OptimalJ provides
the development team with unparalleled control over the code generation
process, ensuring that OptimalJ applications adhere to internal and industry-wide
guidelines and best practices for application architecture. Updates to
version 3.2 unite analysis, design and testing processes and ensure that
large, diverse development teams can consistently architect, build, integrate
and maintain high-quality enterprise applications.
"It is mandatory that we become more productive in our application
delivery," said Mike Elinski, Associate Vice President Technology
and E-Commerce, Health Alliance Plan. "One of our strategies to meet
this goal is to adopt tools that help us automate our development process.
We selected Compuware OptimalJ because of its proven ability to increase
productivity in both development and maintenance. Moreover, OptimalJ's
role-based editions enable us to leverage the advanced skills of our experts
to make our less-experienced team members more productive."
Compuware OptimalJ 3.2 Meets the Needs of Enterprise-scale Java Development
Projects
Compuware OptimalJ 3.2 expands the product's life-cycle coverage across
all the stages of development-from analysis and design to build and test.
This enables enterprises to simplify the process of designing and deploying
applications by managing development from a single solution, instead of
grappling with multiple, loosely-integrated tools.
"In large-scale enterprise development, the pendulum is starting
to swing away from integrating point solutions for application analysis,
construction and deployment," said Mark Driver Vice President and
Research Director, Gartner. "Customers are looking to build tool
suites from a limited number of large vendors with which they can outfit
the entire development team. This strategy alleviates the complexity involved
in cobbling together multi-vendor solutions and enables them to more effectively
streamline the development process."
OptimalJ 3.2's expanded life-cycle coverage now includes:
- Complete system analysis through extended UML modeling capabilities.
Compuware OptimalJ 3.2 provides maximum flexibility by fully supporting
UML analysis, allowing customers to completely document system requirements.
Organisations can use version 3.2 to design, model, build and deploy
from one environment or they can integrate with other UML modeling tools
to generate code directly from the models they create;
- Model-driven testing enables teams to detect and repair defects
earlier in the development cycle. Compuware OptimalJ 3.2's unique
model-driven testing feature enables developers to automatically generate
unit tests from the application's architectural models. Since unit testing
is often a very low priority for developers, OptimalJ's ability to automatically
create test suites ensures richer, more thorough unit testing even in
the tightest development cycles.
Compuware OptimalJ 3.2 is designed to meet the needs of the various roles
of large enterprise development teams. By providing specific functionality
for architects, senior developers and developers, Compuware OptimalJ enables
each role to provide unique value to the development of an application.
Version 3.2 enhances the role-based structure of OptimalJ, making each
team member more productive and easing the collaboration between team
members through:
- Eclipse plug-in and new Developer Edition bridge the gap between
code-centric and model-driven development. In order to give developers
the flexibility to use familiar tools, Compuware has added Eclipse integration
to OptimalJ 3.2 Developer Edition's existing library of integrated development
environment (IDE) plug-ins, which includes Borland JBuilder and IBM
WebSphere Studio Application Developer. To enable organisations to enhance
and integrate existing Java applications into OptimalJ development projects,
the Developer Edition now ships with native integration with one of
the most popular Java IDEs, JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA. It also includes
the award winning profiling capabilities and architectural analysis
and refactoring functionality;
- Application behaviour modeling means more productive architects
and senior developers. Compuware OptimalJ 3.2 now enables architects
and senior developers to model the behaviour of an application. By extending
code-generation capabilities from structural to behavioral code, OptimalJ
3.2 customers can automatically generate a greater percentage of an
application, speeding development cycles, reducing errors and easing
application maintenance;
- Collaboration enhancements boost the productivity of large development
teams. Compuware OptimalJ 3.2's new model-merge capabilities ease
collaboration by providing large enterprise development teams with a
visual tool to resolve the conflicts that may arise through concurrent
development efforts. Version 3.2 also includes a subsystem architecture
that allows "sub-teams" to work on different parts of a larger
development project. By adding IBM Rational ClearCase support to its
existing CVS integration, Compuware OptimalJ 3.2 ensures that all development
teams can effectively manage their source code assets.
"The significant updates we've made to Compuware OptimalJ 3.2 address
the changing development needs of large enterprises," said Mike Sawicki,
Compuware OptimalJ Product Manager. "Java development projects continue
to grow in number, size, scope and sophistication. To keep up with the
need for industrial development solutions, Compuware OptimalJ continues
to evolve as a comprehensive platform that boosts productivity and increases
code quality from the first stages of analysis and design through deployment
so that enterprise development teams can rapidly deliver applications
that are well-architected and standards-based."
Pricing and availability
Compuware OptimalJ, version 3.2, will be available on July 13, 2004 in
three editions:
- Developer Edition Powered by IntelliJ IDEA
- Professional Edition
- Architecture Edition
Compuware Corporation
Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR) is a world leader in delivering
software and services that enable businesses to manage their enterprises
and maximise the value of their IT assets. Compuware solutions accelerate
the development, improve the quality and enhance the performance of business-driving
applications. Founded in 1973, Compuware serves the world's leading IT
organisations, including more than 90 per cent of the Fortune 100 companies.
For more information please contact: www.compuware.co.uk.
Compuware is a registered trademark of Compuware Corporation. All other
product and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their
respective owners.
Compuware is a member of The Prince's Trust Technology Leadership Group
(TLG), a premier industry-networking forum for leaders within the IT industry,
established in May 2002.
For press enquiries contact:
Kewal Varia/Sophie Jarvis
Spark Communications
020 7357 8612
kewal@sparkcomms.co.uk
sophie@sparkcomms.co.uk
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