How Inprise's Borland C++Builder 4 radically simplifies COM and CORBA® development and leverages existing C++ resources to ensure application development success.

Executive Summary
Succeeding in Enterprise development
Radically simplifying COM and CORBA development
Leveraging existing C++ Resources
Summary

Executive Summary

Effective risk management has always been a feature of the best IT projects, and it's never been so important as today.

Whereas once the cost of a failed project could be counted in budget and job security, many of today's IT projects underpin the whole strategy of the organization. The opportunity costs of being late to market with a new information delivery application or Web services application can be immeasurable. In a world where the competition is a just a click away, delivering and rapidly updating high-availability enterprise applications ahead of the rest of the competition is essential.

Multi-tiered component-based applications are proven to deliver more flexible and robust applications, and CORBA and COM are evolving as the standards for distributed component computing. Until now, delivering COM and especially CORBA applications has been very difficult, leading to sometimes unacceptable risks.

Inprise has developed Borland C++Builder 4—a tool designed from the bottom up to maximize the success of distributed component-based application development by:

• Radically simplifying COM and CORBA development in C++ to ensure that developers can focus on delivering business results rather than figuring out and administering the low-level idiosyncrasies of the standards.
• Leveraging existing C++ development resources (development skills and C++ code) to build COM and CORBA enterprise applications. Borland C++Builder 4 is especially compatible with Visual C++.

To accomplish this breakthrough, Inprise has invented a number of technologies that, when combined in Borland C++Builder 4, give organizations a unique competitive advantage.

• The only true Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool for multi-tier C++ development, with Two-Way Tools™, CodeInsights™, Visual Component Library, Drag-and-Drop user interface, Remote Debugging, and high-performance native C++ compiler for maximum developer productivity and reduced coding errors.
• Totally integrated and automated CORBA support, including the VisiBroker™ ORB™) dramatically reducing the time and effort required to develop and deploy robust, high-availability CORBA applications.
• Unrivaled support for COM with complete code generation and the best MTS support in the industry. Unique native COM and CORBA compatibility from single source for uncompromising cross-standard application support.
• Flexible and high-performance database architecture especially designed for maximizing performance when accessing and aggregating data from remote legacy, SQL, and ERP information sources.
• The best possible support for ANSI Standard C++ and Visual C++, guaranteeing the ongoing availability of software developers and reuse of legacy C++ code.

Borland C++Builder 4 resolves the resource, standards, and complexity risks surrounding the development of today's distributed applications, allowing developers to build the most advanced C++ applications and releasing the IT Director's time to focus on creating an innovative IT strategy that will differentiate the enterprise from its competitors.