Compuware

Compuware

Compuware Corporation is a software company with products aimed at the information technology departments of large businesses. The company's services also include testing, development, professional services automation, project and portfolio management, cloud-based collaboration and performance...

 OptimalJ was a model-driven

Model-driven engineering

Model-driven engineering is a software development methodology which focuses on creating and exploiting domain models , rather than on the computing concepts...

 development environment

Integrated development environment

An integrated development environment is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development...

 for Java

Java (programming language)

Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...

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OptimalJ was first released in 2001 and was then based on Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982...

' open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 NetBeans

NetBeans

NetBeans refers to both a platform framework for Java desktop applications, and an integrated development environment for developing with Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Groovy, C, C++, Scala, Clojure, and others...

 IDE. Since 2006 OptimalJ is based on the open source Eclipse

Eclipse (software)

Eclipse is a multi-language software development environment comprising an integrated development environment and an extensible plug-in system...

 IDE. OptimalJ was developed out of Compuware's Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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 offices by many of the development team responsible for the Uniface

Uniface (programming language)

Uniface is a development and deployment platform for enterprise applications that can run in a large range of runtime environments, including mobile, mainframe, web, Service-oriented architecture , Windows, Java EE and .NET. It has been described as a 4GL RDBMS Rapid Application Development ...

 development suite.

OptimalJ is available in two editions:

• The Professional Edition is focused on simplifying Java EE development, by providing the capability to model
  Unified Modeling Language
  Unified Modeling Language is a standardized general-purpose modeling language in the field of object-oriented software engineering. The standard is managed, and was created, by the Object Management Group...
  
   a Java EE application, and then generate the application's code from the model via implementation patterns. First, a platform-independent model
  Platform-independent model
  A Platform-Independent Model in software engineering is a model of a software system or business system, that is independent of the specific technological platform used to implement it...
  
   is made, which is then transformed
  Model Transformation Language
  A model transformation language in systems and software engineering is a language for model transformation.- Overview :The notion of model transformation is of central importance to information technology. A software system may be seen as a set of information transformations...
  
   via technology patterns to a platform-specific model
  Platform-specific model
  A platform-specific model is a model of a software or business system that is linked to a specific technological platform . Platform-specific models are indispensable for the actual implementation of a system.For example, a need to implement an online shop...
  
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• The Architecture Edition provides capabilities for metamodeling
  Metamodeling
  Metamodeling, or meta-modeling in software engineering and systems engineering among other disciplines, is the analysis, construction and development of the frames, rules, constraints, models and theories applicable and useful for modeling a predefined class of problems...
  
   and for writing implementation and technology patterns, which can be used to extend the Professional Edition. Metamodels and patterns are bundled into software factories
  Software factory
  In software engineering and enterprise software architecture, a software factory is an organizational structure that specializes in producing computer software applications or software components according to specific, externally-defined end-user requirements through an assembly process...
  
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OptimalJ was generally regarded as a technically superior but relatively expensive development environment. Compuware found it difficult to gain market share amongst the Java

Java (programming language)

Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...

development community with the Optimal suite of products.

Due to internal restructurings, Compuware decided in 2008 to discontinue OptimalJ.