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Together
Developer(s) Peter Coad, Object International Software GmbH, TogetherSoft LLC, Borland, Micro Focus, OpenText
Final release
12.6 [1] / 28 November 2013;11 years ago (2013-11-28) [2]
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Java IDE, UML tool
License Proprietary
Website web.archive.org/web/20211116055439/https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/together/overview

Together is a discontinued CASE and UML modeling product currently owned by OpenText, formerly by Micro Focus (acquired by OpenText in 2023), formerly from Borland (acquired by Micro Focus in 2009), formerly from TogetherSoft LLC / Object International Software GmbH, originally developed under lead of Peter Coad who owned both TogetherSoft and Object International.

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Awards and mentions

The Together was shown and mentioned by Java creator James Gosling at conference JavaOne'98 as "a 100% pure Java app and it runs on whatever you want. And it's a really cool design". [3]

In 1999 the Together Suite was called "Best Commercial Java App" JavaWorld.com based on opinion by judges at Java Business Expo named Together/J as the "Best Commercial App" [4] . Also the analyst group ComputerWire named Together as one of its "Top-10 Object Apps" in 1999. [5]

The 4th version of the product was voted "Best Java Application" in the Java Developer's Journal Readers' Choice Awards (August 15, 2000 issue of the Java Developer's Journal), an awards ceremony happened at JavaCon 2000 in Santa Clara, CA on September 25, 2000. Together/J was also recognized in the categories for "Best Java Modeling Tool" and "Most Innovative Java Product". [6]


History of development

German company Object International Software GmbH, founded in 1994, has developed a CASE tool Together; in 1999 a separate American company TogetherSoft LLC was created, which was later (2003 [7] [8] ) sold to the BORLAND Group. [9] As a result, in January 2003 TogetherSoft' CEO Peter Coad [10] became senior vice president and chief strategist but he left Borland before the end of 2003 and turned his attention to interests outside of the software development field.

Early versions of TogetherSoft Together were called Together/J, it survived at least to version 3 (referred also as TJ3) in 2000 and supported MS Windows 2000 and RedHat Linux 6.0 with Sun JDK 1.2. Reviewers were noticing a TJ3's unique model-code synchronization capability and support for Java, C++, JPython and Objective Cobol. [11] [12] [13]

Earlier versions of the Together products were completely proprietary self-contained applications. After acquisition of Borland at least from version 6.0.1 the option based on Eclipse appeared (a Together Eclipse Edition). [14] The installation allows installing Together using an existing Eclipse installation. Under Borland' rule the product line was sold in three levels of functionality: Together Developer, Together Designer, and Together Architect; however, since 2007, Together has been unified into a single product.

In 2004 Borland distributed a Together® Designer Community Edition for free [15] [16]

Name / VersionDeveloper / owner company
at the moment of release		Release dateBased on platform
Together/JObject International Software GmbH1994 or 1995
Together/J 2.0
  • Whiteboard, Standard, Developer, and Enterprise edition
Object International Software GmbH

Object International, Inc. (USA)

1998, Jul. 6 [17] Java 1.x
Together 2.1
  • Together/J 2.1 (Whiteboard or Developer edition)
  • Together/C++ 2.1 (Whiteboard or Developer edition)
  • Together/Enterprise (Java, C++) 2.1
1998, Aug. 25 [18] Java 1.1
Together 2.2
  • Together/J 2.2 (Whiteboard or Developer edition)
  • Together/C++ 2.2 (Whiteboard or Developer edition)
  • Together/Enterprise (Java, C++) 2.2
1998, Nov. 30 [19] Java 1.2
Together/J 3 or TJ3Together Soft LLC2000 [20] MS Java 1.x
Together 4
  • Together Control Center 4 [21]
  • Together Enterprise 4
  • Together Solo 4 (C++, Java)
2001
Together 4.2 [22]
  • Together Control Center 4.2
2000, Nov. 24
Together Control Center 5.5
Together Control Center 6.02002
Borland Together Control Center 6.0.1
  • Borland Together for JBuilder 6.0
  • Borland Together for WebShere Studio 6.0.1
Borland2003
Borland Together 2005
  • Together 2005 for Visual Studio .NET
  • Together Developer 2005 for JBuilder 2005
  • Together Designer 2005
  • Together for C++ 2005
  • Together ControlCenter (and Solo) 6.2
  • Together Architect 1.1 (March 31, 2005) is a successor of Together ControlCenter 6.2
  • Together for SAP NetWeaver 6.2
2005JBuilder / Eclipse (?)
Borland Together 20062006
Borland Together 2006 R22006
Borland Together 20072007, Oct 31Eclipse 3.3.x [23]
Borland Together 2007 SP12007Eclipse 3.3 [24]
Borland Together 2008 R2 [25] 2009, July 29Eclipse 3.5 [26]
Borland Together 2008 R2 SP1
Borland Together 2008 R32010, Nov 17Eclipse 3.6.1 Helios SR1
Borland Together 2008 R4Borland: A Microfocus Company2011, Sep 28Eclipse 3.7.1 Indigo SR1 [27]
Borland Together 12.02012, Oct 1Eclipse 3.8.1 Juno SR1 [28]
Borland Together 12.52013, Mar 22Eclipse 4.2.2 Juno SR2
Borland Together 12.62013, Nov 28Eclipse 4.3.1 Kepler SR1

Software description

Last versions of Together are implemented as a set of Eclipse plugins. Together Developer provides Unified Modeling Language (UML) 1.4 modeling, multilanguage support, physical data modeling, design patterns, source code design pattern recognition, code template design and reuse, documentation generation, and code audits and metrics. It supports language-neutral UML 2.0 diagramming, business process modeling, and logical data model, and logical to physical data model transformation and custom pattern support.

BPMN diagrams can be created by import from and used to generate output to business process execution language with Web Services definitions (BPEL4WS). Audits and metrics are provided at both the model and code level, defined in Object Constraint Language (OCL) 2.0. Together supports Design Patterns, Java 6, C++, CORBA, and Query/View/Transformation model transformations.

Current situation

The product is discontinued since 2013.

The last version of the product that used a year instead of a number was Borland Together 2008 SP4, based on Eclipse and released in 2008. [29]

The last official version according to the owner website was Together 12.6 released on 28 November 2013. [1] [2] Last versions of Together used the Eclipse 4.3.1 platform. [30]


See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Together Documentation". OpenText. Retrieved 2024-05-10.
  2. 1 2 "Borland® Together® 12.6 Release Notes. November 28, 2013". OpenText. 2013-11-28. Retrieved 2024-05-10.
  3. ↑ "James Gosling And Miko Matsumura Demo Together/J At The Java One Opening Keynote". Together Soft. 1998. Archived from the original on 1999-02-09.
  4. ↑ ""BEST COMMERCIAL JAVA APP" AWARD GOES TO TOGETHER/J FOR DELIVERING VISUAL UML MODELING WITH SIMULTANEOUS ROUND-TRIP ENGINEERING". TogetherSoft. 1998-12-09. Archived from the original on 1999-04-28.
  5. ↑ "Together named in Computerwire's "Top-10 Object Apps"". TogetherSoft. 1999-01-20. Archived from the original on 1999-04-28.
  6. ↑ "BEST Java Application, JavaCon-2000". Java Developer's Journal, SYS-CON Publications, Inc. 2000. Archived from the original on 2001-02-04. TOGETHER/J from TogetherSoft LLC (aka Together Solo) Together Solo is the multiplatform control center... Release 4.0 includes the functionality of Together/J and Together/C++ in one product.
  7. ↑ "Borland übernimmt TogetherSoft. Borland baut seine Position in der Software-Entwicklung weiter aus: Für einen Betrag von insgesamt 185 Millionen US-Dollar erwirbt das Unternehmen die amerikanische TogetherSoft" (in German). Portal der Wortschaft. 2002-10-30.
  8. ↑ Dawn Kawamoto (2002-10-30). "Borland gets TogetherSoft for $185 million".
  9. ↑ "History of OBJECT Intl. Software GmbH". Object International Software GmbH.
  10. ↑ "Main Page (2001)". TogetherSoft. Archived from the original on 2001-02-01.
  11. ↑ David Garmire (Slides developed by Geunter Teubner) (1999-09-23). "Lecture Notes on CASE-Tools: Together/J" (PDF). Carnegie Mellon University, Technische Universitaet Muenchen. Institut für Informatik.
  12. ↑ Together/J. A Review in Progress
  13. ↑ TogetherSoft Together/J 2001 main page
  14. ↑ Masaki Yamada (Metabolics Co., Ltd.) (2003-07-18). "UML Tool Review. From Modeling Tools to Integrated Development Environments" (in jp). ITmedia Inc.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  15. ↑ SwitchBl8 (July 2004). "A free version of Borland Together".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  16. ↑ "Borland Together Downloads". Borland. 2004. Archived from the original on 2005-01-04. Retrieved 2025-05-10.
  17. ↑ "PLATFORM-INDEPENDENT UML MODELING AND SIMULTANEOUS ROUND-TRIP ENGINEERING". MacTech. 1998-07-06. Object International announced today the release and general availability of Together/J 2.0. Together is the first platform-independent UML modeler that delivers *simultaneous* round-trip engineering. The Whiteboard Edition is available free for a limited time from http://www.togetherj.com {{cite web}}: External link in |quote= (help); line feed character in |quote= at position 74 (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  18. ↑ "OBJECT INTERNATIONAL RELEASES THREE PRODUCTS FEATURING UML MODELING FOR JAVA & C++ (2.1)". 1998-08-25. Archived from the original on 1998-12-05.
  19. ↑ "OBJECT INTL SHIPS TOGETHER 2.2, VISUAL UML MODELING WITH SIMULTANEOUS ROUND-TRIP ENGINEERING". 1998-11-30. Archived from the original on 1999-04-28.
  20. ↑ Christoph Vilsmeier (2000-11-10). "Lecture Notes on CASE-Tools: Together" (PDF). Technische Universität München. Institut für Informatik.
  21. ↑ "Together Control Center - The current Together Flagship product". wiki.c2. 2006. Retrieved 2025-05-15. The 'Control Center' name was introduced with version 4 of the Together product. Other products in the Together v4 range are TogetherEnterprise and TogetherSolo.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  22. ↑ Zeichick, Alan (2001-01-15). "TogetherSoft Takes Control". Software Development Times (22). Archived from the original on 2001-01-24.
  23. ↑ "Borland® Together® 2007 Release Notes". Borland. Archived from the original on 2009-08-16. Retrieved 2025-05-10.
  24. ↑ "Vorlesung "Softwaretechnologie" 2008/2009 Borland Together 2007 SP1" (in German). Universität Bonn. 2008. Retrieved 2025-05-10.
  25. ↑ "Borland® Together®". Borland. Archived from the original on 2009-08-09.
  26. ↑ "Borland® Together® 2008 Release 2 Release Notes". Borland. 2009-07-29. Retrieved 2025-05-10.
  27. ↑ "Borland® Together® 2008 Release 4 Release Notes". Microfocus.
  28. ↑ "Borland® Together® 12.0 Release Notes: October 1, 2012". Microfocus. 2012-10-01.
  29. ↑ "Borland Together 2008 SP1" (in German). 2009-04-09. Borland hat seine Lösung zur Software-Modellierung auf Basis von Eclipse neu aufgelegt. Mit dem Service Pack 1 ist Borland Together 2008 nun auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar.[Borland has relaunched its Eclipse-based software modeling solution. With Service Pack 1, Borland Together 2008 is now also available in German.]
  30. ↑ "Data Sheet, Together 12.6" (PDF). borland.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-02-16. Retrieved 2025-05-10.


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