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Together/J Wins Jolt Award, Bests Rational Rose and Others |
May 11, 1999 (San Francisco) --
Software Development Magazine's Jolt Award, considered by many to be
the most important software-industry product award, was awarded to
Together/J, the pure-Java visual UML modeler with simultaneous
round-trip engineering from the development team led by Peter Coad
and Dietrich Charisius at Object International. Nominated in the
Design and Management Tools category, "TJ" was picked for
top honors from a field of industry-leading finalists including
Rational Rose from Rational Software. Only 6 products out of 308
nominees were selected for this award.
"Together/J
is the first-ever 'software triple crown' winner -- Software
Development's
Jolt Award, JavaWorld's Best App Award, and JARS Top 1%
Award. This Jolt
award honors the Together/J development team, the most
remarkable developers
I've ever had the privilege of working with, now a
'double Jolt' team:
Together/C (in 1997) and now Together/J," said Peter
Coad, President of
Object International.
Curtis Chambers at The Home Depot added: "We see
Together/J as more than a
modeling solution. Together/J is the backbone for
all of our Java software
development, beginning with use-cases all the way
through to deployment. We
discovered in our evaluation that other modeling
tools only get used during
the front-end of a project. Yet we found
Together/J to be the one UML
modeler that our developers will use from start
to finish. Why? It's the
only one that delivers simultaneous (rather than
batch-mode) round-trip
engineering."
In the intense competition for
the Jolt Award, Together/J bested other
leading products in the Design and
Management Tools category: Caliber-RM,
Requirements Management tool from
Technology Builders Inc.; ESTIMATE
Professional from Software Productivity
Centre (SPC); PLATINUM Process
Continuum from PLATINUM Technology Inc.;
Rational Rose from Rational
Software; and Visio Enterprise from Visio
Corporation.
The 8th annual Jolt awards are co-sponsored by Software
Development
magazine and the Rochester, NY-based Jolt Cola. The products fall
into six
categories and are nominated and chosen by a team of Software
Development
writers, contributing editors, and columnists.
The
Software Development Jolt Product Excellence Awards are given to
products
that "jolt" the industry with their significance and make the
difficult task
of creating corporate software faster, easier, and more
efficient. Jolt, "the
most powerful cola," is the fabled soft drink used by
software programmers to
get them through complex development projects.
EDITIONS. Together/J and
Together/C are available in two editions:
Whiteboard and Developer. An
enterprise-level product is also available.
The Whiteboard Edition
features simultaneous design-and-code editing,
supporting the way designers
and programmers really work: design first, or
code first, or do some of both
at the same time. Developers use it on
brand-new projects; developers use it
on existing projects, too. This
edition features UML class and package
diagrams. The Whiteboard Edition
delivers simultaneous round-trip engineering
for Java software development.
The Whiteboard Edition is intended for solo
programmers, building Java
applications, C applications, or both; it is
also intended for analysts,
designers, and programmers who wish to take
Together for a spin. For a
limited time, developers can download it from http://www.togethersoft.com
The
Developer Edition features (1) a family of UML diagrams (use-case,
package,
class, sequence, collaboration, and state diagrams), (2) an Open
API for
add-in integration with other development tools, (3) fully
customizable
documentation generation and information export, using the
Java programming
language itself or JPython as the scripting language, (4)
Rational Rose
import and export, (5) multiframe HTML documentation
generation and
wall-chart printing, and (6) external tools access (to
launch an editor or
IDE; or interact directly with a version control
system). The Developer
Edition delivers simultaneous round-trip engineering
for either Java or C
software development (not both). The Developer
Edition is intended for
analysts, designers, and programmers working in a
mid-size
company.
Another product in the Together product line,
Together/Enterprise, adds
essential features for enterprise-wide application
development.
Together/Enterprise delivers simultaneous round-trip engineering
for both
Java and C software development. Together/Enterprise is intended
for
analysts, designers, and programmers working in a large company,
building
applications in multiple languages across the
enterprise.
Together product specs and the free Whiteboard Editions are
located at
http://www.togethersoft.com
Editors:
A screenshot is located at
http://www.togetherj.com/screenshot1.htm.
A special Editors' page is
located at http://www.togethersoft.com/press
Object
International (USA) has a web site located at http://www.oi.com.
Contact Frank Baker at baker@oi.com, 1-919-773-1063. Object
International Software (Europe) has a web site located at http://www.oisoft.com. Contact
Robert Neher
at neher@oisoft.com.
?711-787-100.
Together is a registered trademark
of Object International Software. Java is a trademark of Sun Microsystems. Other
brand names are the trademarks of their espective holders.
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