Pawel Glowacki

This week I’ve been watching a lot of Camtasia’s related to JBuilder 2007. Just enter "jbuilder.borland.com" into your browser, and click on the "Video Demos" tab to get access to 18 videos grouped in 5 categories. I wish similar page with video resources is also available for other CodeGear products. Why not "delphi.codegear.com" or "cbuilder.codegear.com"? More comprehensive list of JBuilder 2007 videos. is available through CodeGear Developer Network.

These camtasias are really useful because JBuilder 2007 is based on Eclipse. While Eclipse programmers feel at home with JB2007 right away, existing JBuilder coders need some time to get used to the new IDE. By the way JBuilder 2007 ships with the full installation of its previous version (JBuilder 2006) in the same box, which is the latest version based on PrimeTime.

JBuilder 2007 videos I liked the most are related to "ProjectAssist" and "TeamInsight". This is a simple, yet powerful concept of being able to quickly setup access to different open source services — like source code management, defect tracking, requirement management, project planning, and continuous integration — that are critical to developing software projects in teams of arbitrary sizes. If you are just a member of the development team you receive from your project leader or administrator automatically generated email with URLs for accessing different services that you have to use during your development work.

For starters I would recommend watching 30 minutes video "ProjectAssist & TeamInsight" by Karl Ewald and Ravi Kumar from JBuilder R&D. In this demo Karl and Ravi demonstrate creating a JBuilder 2007 project that is specific to "ProjectAssist" and then configuring it through either installing or creating references to different team-work related services:

• Bugzilla is a bug tracking system and "allows individual or groups of developers to keep track of outstanding bugs in their product effectively". The Bugzilla Guide can be found here.
• Continuum and Maven 2 for continuous integration builds. Check Martin Fowler’s article "Continuous Integration" for more info why it is useful.
• Liferay for the project portal. Liferay is an implementation of JSR-168 Portlet Specification. Check LiferayPedia for more information.
• Subversion is a source code version control system. There is a free online subversion book with in-depth information. There is also a subversion plugin for Delphi project available from sourceforge.net, but I have not yet tried this one out. The project page says it is in "alpha" stage of development.
• XPlanner is a project planning and tracking tool for eXtreme Programming (XP) teams. Check this link to learn more about XP.

But the coolest thing is that you do not have to install all these services yourself to try them out! CodeGear provides http://teaminsight.codegear.com server with all these services preinstalled for testing! As a Delphi developer I would like to see "Project Assist" in the next version of CodeGear Developer Studio!

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