:CORRECTED: Delphi for Linux On Its Way -- Inprise Commits To Development Tools
CORRECTED: Delphi for Linux On Its Way -- Inprise Commits To Development Tools Sep 27, 1999, 22 :22 UTC (46 Talkback[s]) (14978 reads) (Other stories by Dwight Johnson)
Inprise will announce tomorrow its Kylix project which will develop a new
Rapid Application Development environment native to Linux. Kylix will
incorporate the best features of its Delphi and C++ development products
for the Windows platform and utilize Borland's Linux-native C, C++ and
object Pascal compilers released last summer. The Kylix project will
support component based development with an entirely new Visual Component
Library developed native to Linux.
According to Michael Swindell, Inprise group product manager for Linux,
porting of applications developed on Delphi and CBuilder for Windows will
be simple and straightforward.
However, Kylix is not a port of Delphi and CBuilder but a new product using
entirely Linux standards and Linux components while incorporating the best
features of the Borland Windows development tools.
Swindell told Linux Today that the goal for Kylix is a complete
applications development environment that will support the development of
both open-source and proprietary applications.
Kylix will support the development of both database and Internet enabled
applications. It will support all application development models from Fat
to Ultra-thin. Supported standards and protocols will include: CGI, NSAPI,
XML and DHTML for distributed Web applications.
Initially, Kylix will support MySQL, said Swindell, and further support for
commercial databases will be announced later.
Inprise is targeting mid 2000 for release of the product.
The announcement of Kylix comes on the heals of Inprise's announcement
today of a free download for its JBuilder Java 2 Just-In-Time Compiler for
Linux.
Swindell told Linux Today that the Java 2 Just-In-Time Compiler for
Linux is based on the Blackdown JDK for
Linux and represents a significant performance boost for Java applications
running under Linux.
The Java 2 Just-In-Time Compiler for
Linux is free for any use but is not open-source -- only the object
executable is available for download. Swindell also cautioned that
this is a preview release of the Java 2 Just-In-Time Compiler for
Linux as it is waiting for Blackdown to complete its JDK 2.0 release and
applications using it should not be used for production work.
Swindell told Linux Today that Inprise is still investigating how it will
support the open-source licensing model but that presently they are
committed to delivering superior application development tools to the Linux
platform.
