Together (software)

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Together
Developer(s) Peter Coad, Object International Software GmbH, TogetherSoft LLC, Borland, Micro Focus, OpenText
Initial release1998
Final release
14.0.0 [1] / 31 October 2021;3 years ago (2021-10-31)
Written in Java
Operating system Cross-platform
Included with JBuilder
Type UML tool, CASE, IDE
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 by Borland (acquired by Micro Focus in 2009), formerly developed by 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/J (presumably version 1) 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". [2]

In December 1998 the Together/J Suite (version 2) was called "Best Commercial Java App" by JavaWorld.com based on opinion by judges at Java Business Expo. [3] [4]

The analyst group ComputerWire named Together as one of its "Top-10 Object Apps" in 1999. [5]

Together Enterprise 3.2 wins "Most Innovative Java Product" in JavaPro Magazine's Reader's Choice Awards. [6]

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". [7] The Together Control Center 4.0 has been voted best product in the Integrated Development Environment Category by developers attending the Application Development 2000 Conference. [8]

Together ControlCenter 6.0 became the winner of the Java Pro 2002 Readers’ Choice Award. The fourth annual awards program, sponsored by Java Pro Magazine, was based on a survey of the magazine’s readership, which consisted of enterprise-level Java developers. TogetherSoft’s product was recognized for its strength as “Best Modeling Tool for Java.” [9]

History of development

German company Object International Software GmbH, founded in 1994, has developed and released a CASE tool Together around 1997, it was referenced in a 1997' book by Peter Coad "Java design: building better apps and applets" and a copy of the Together/J Whiteboard Edition was included in an attached CD to a second edition (1999) of the book. [10] [11] The product received several awards, and in 1999 a separate American company TogetherSoft LLC was created. At the time there were 3 companies, a head company TogetherSoft Corporation, one American branch and TogetherSoft GmbH in Germany to operate in Europe. Earlier versions of the Together products were completely proprietary self-contained applications written in Java.

in November 2001 Borland and TogetherSoft formed a partnership called Board of Stewards, and Together was rewritten as a plugin for Eclipse which was released in late 2002. [12]

In October 2002 it was announced that TogetherSoft will be sold to Borland Group for approximately $210 million, which happened in 2003. [13] [14] [15] In February 2003 Borland officials announced that a Borland Together Edition for JBuilder will be launched to be a part of Borland Enterprise Studio 5 for Java, and will replace Rational Rose. [16]

The development centres of TogetherSoft since middle of 1990s were located in Saint-Petersburg and (after 1998) in Prague, and after 2003 they were mainly responsible for further development and integration of Together with JBuilder. Borland bought both facilities in Prague and in Saint-Petersburg and promised to add 80 sales staff to approximately 250 sales people and sales engineers. [17] Later several developers from ex-TogetherSoft founded a company JetBrains. [18]

As a result of the acquisition, in January 2003 TogetherSoft' CEO/president Peter Coad [19] 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 synchronisation capability and support for Java, C++, and Objective Cobol. [20] [21] [22]

After acquisition of Borland [23] at least from version 6.0.1 the option based on Eclipse appeared (a Together Eclipse Edition). [24] 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.

Free (trial) versions 2.1 and 2.2 of the product were distributed by TogetherSoft in 1998 as Together/J and Together/C++ 2.1, they were called Whiteboard Edition.

In 2004 Borland also distributed a Together Designer Community Edition for free [25] [26]

Name / VersionDeveloper / owner company
at the moment of release		Release dateUML

ver.

Based on platform
Together/JObject International Software GmbH1998Java 1.x
Together/J 2.0
  • Whiteboard, Standard, Developer, and Enterprise edition
Object International Software GmbH

Object International, Inc. (USA)

1998, Jul. 6 [27] Java 1.1
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 [28] 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 [29] 1.2Java 1.2
Together/J 3 or TJ3TogetherSoft Corporation

TogetherSoft LLC

TogetherSoft GmbH

TogetherSoft UK Ltd.

end of 1999 [30] MS Java 1.x
Together/J 3.22000, Mar. 15
Together 4.0
  • Together Control Center 4.0 [31]
  • Together Enterprise 4.0
  • Together Solo 4.0 (C++, Java)
  • Together 4.0 Whiteboard Edition
2000, Jun. [32] 1.3
Together 4.12000, Aug.
Together 4.2 [33]
  • Together Control Center 4.2
2000, Nov. 24
Together 5.0
Together Control Center 5.5
  • Together Community Edition 5.5 (free replacement for Whiteboard Ed.) [34]
2001, Sep. [35]
Together Control Center 6.02002, Apr. 1 [36]
Borland Together Control Center 6.0.1
  • Borland Together for JBuilder 6.0
  • Borland Together for WebSphere Studio 6.0.1
Borland2003JBuilder

WebSphere

Borland Together 2005 [37]
  • Together 2005 for Visual Studio .NET:
  •    Designer edition (UML 2.0)
  •    Developer edition (UML 1.4)
  • Together Developer 2005 for JBuilder 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
20051.4

2.0

MS Visual Studio.NET 2003

Eclipse

JBuilder 2005

SAP NetWeaver 6.2

Borland Together 2006, sold as 1 product [38]
  • Together Architect 2006 for Eclipse
  • Together Designer 2006 for Eclipse
  • Together Developer 2006 for Eclipse
2006Eclipse 3.1.0 with
  • Sun J2SE 1.5
  • Sun J2SE 1.4.2 on Linux and Solaris
  • Apple J2SE 1.4.2 on Mac OS X
Borland Together 2006 R2006Eclipse 3.x
Borland Together 20072007, Oct 31Eclipse 3.3.x, Sun J2SE 5.0U11 [39]
Borland Together 2007 SP12007Eclipse 3.3 [40]
Borland Together 2008 R2 [41] 2009, July 29Eclipse 3.5 [42]
Borland Together 2008 R2 SP1Eclipse 3.x
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 [43]
Borland Together 12.02012, Oct 1Eclipse 3.8.1 Juno SR1 [44]
Borland Together 12.52013, Mar 22Eclipse 4.2.2 Juno SR2 [45]
Borland Together 12.6 [46] 2013, Nov 28 [47] Eclipse 4.3.1 Kepler SR1 [48]

Software description

Early versions (1-5) of Together were based on AWT and later on Java Swing. Last versions of Together (after 2002) are implemented as a set of Eclipse plugins. Together Developer provides Unified Modeling Language (UML) 1.4 & 2.0 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 supported Design Patterns, Java 6, C++, CORBA, and Query/View/Transformation model transformations.

Current situation

The product has no significant releases since 2013, however the last supported release v.14.0.0 was done in 2021. [1]

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. [49]


See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Product Support Lifecycle". OpenText. Retrieved 2025-06-30. Together v. 14.0.0, Maintenance End Date 31 Oct 2021
  2. ↑ "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.
  3. ↑ ""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.
  4. ↑ "JavaWorld announces winners in its 1998 Editors' Choice Awards. First-place tools, companies, and industry leaders named at Java magazine's awards ceremony during Java Business Expo in New York". JavaWorld. 1998-12-08. Archived from the original on 1999-05-04.
  5. ↑ "Together named in Computerwire's "Top-10 Object Apps"". TogetherSoft. 1999-01-20. Archived from the original on 1999-04-28.
  6. ↑ "The Coders Have Spoken". 2000-08-15. Archived from the original on 15 August 2000. Retrieved 2025-05-21.
  7. ↑ "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.
  8. ↑ "Together® wins Best IDE Award". TogetherSoft UK. 2000. Archived from the original on 2001-03-08.
  9. ↑ "TogetherSoft Product Recognized in Java Pro Magazine's Readers' Choice Awards". TechWire. 2002-03-29.
  10. ↑ Coad, Peter; Mayfield, Mark (1997). Java design : building better apps and applets. Internet Archive (1st ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ : Yourdon Press. ISBN   978-0-13-271149-4.
  11. ↑ Coad, Peter; Mayfield, Mark; Kern, Jonathan (1999). JAVA design : building better apps and applets. Internet Archive (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ : Yourdon Press : Prentice-Hall. pp. 6–7. ISBN   978-0-13-911181-5.
  12. ↑ Gronback, Richard C. (2005-02-28). "Borland and Eclipse. Strategic Developer Membership" (PDF). Eclipse. Retrieved 2025-05-16.
  13. ↑ "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.
  14. ↑ Dawn Kawamoto (2002-10-30). "Borland gets TogetherSoft for $185 million".
  15. ↑ "History of OBJECT Intl. Software GmbH". Object International Software GmbH.
  16. ↑ Krill, Paul (2003-02-10). "Borland integrating TogetherSoft into apps". InfoWorld. Retrieved 2025-05-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  17. ↑ Clarke, Gavin (2002-10-31). "Borland comeback continues with tools purchase. TogetherSoft even more together". The Register / ComputerWire. Archived from the original on 2025-01-25. Retrieved 2025-05-28.
  18. ↑ "Интервью с COO JetBrains Андреем Ивановым" [An interview with COO of JetBrains Andrey Ivanov]. Xaker.ru (Hacker) (in Russian). 2013-03-26. В 1998 году ... в Together решили ... программистов ... вывозить из Питера в ... Чехию. Топовая команда TogetherSoft (около 50 человек) уехала в Прагу в 1999 году. Среди них были и и три будущих основателя JetBrains: Сергей Дмитриев, Валентин Кипятков и Евгений Беляев. ... В конце 1999 года под руководством Сергея был выпущен TogetherJ 3.0 — существенно обновленная версия продукта, разработка которой заняла почти два года. ... . Сергей ушел из компании в феврале. ... Я после этого возглавил разработку продуктов Together и занимался этим еще шесть лет — сначала в TogetherSoft, а потом в Borland.[In 1998, TogetherSoft decided to move programmers from St. Petersburg to the Czech Republic. TogetherSoft's top team (about 50 people) left for Prague in 1999. Among them were the three future founders of JetBrains: Sergey Dmitriev, Valentin Kipyatkov, and Evgeny Belyaev. ... At the end of 1999, TogetherJ 3.0 was released under Sergey's leadership - a significantly updated version of the product, the development of which took almost two years. ... . Sergey left the company in February. ... After that, I headed the development of Together products and did this for another six years - first at TogetherSoft, and then at Borland.]
  19. ↑ "Main Page (2001)". TogetherSoft. Archived from the original on 2001-02-01.
  20. ↑ 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.
  21. ↑ Together/J. A Review in Progress
  22. ↑ TogetherSoft Together/J 2001 main page
  23. ↑ "PRESS RELEASE OF BORLAND CORP 10/30/2002". www.sec.gov. Retrieved 2025-05-21.
  24. ↑ Masaki Yamada (Metabolics Co., Ltd.) (2003-07-18). "UML Tool Review. From Modeling Tools to Integrated Development Environments" (in Japanese). ITmedia Inc.
  25. ↑ SwitchBl8 (July 2004). "A free version of Borland Together".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  26. ↑ "Borland Together Downloads". Borland. 2004. Archived from the original on 2005-01-04. Retrieved 2025-05-10.
  27. ↑ "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 www.togetherj.com
  28. ↑ "OBJECT INTERNATIONAL RELEASES THREE PRODUCTS FEATURING UML MODELING FOR JAVA & C++ (2.1)". 1998-08-25. Archived from the original on 1998-12-05.
  29. ↑ "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.
  30. ↑ Christoph Vilsmeier (2000-11-10). "Lecture Notes on CASE-Tools: Together" (PDF). Technische Universität München. Institut für Informatik.
  31. ↑ "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.
  32. ↑ "TogetherSoft UK Latest News". TogetherSoft UK. 2001. Archived from the original on 2001-01-23.
  33. ↑ Zeichick, Alan (2001-01-15). "TogetherSoft Takes Control". Software Development Times (22). Archived from the original on 2001-01-24.
  34. ↑ "Together CommunityEdition 5.5". www.togethercommunity.com. Archived from the original on 2001-11-01. Retrieved 2025-05-29.
  35. ↑ Katz, Rich (2001-09-21). "Together Control Center 5.5 adds J2EE, Web service integration; product covers a vast territory". Java Skyline: Magazine for Java Server Developers. Archived from the original on 2002-02-13.
  36. ↑ "SD Times: News & Top Stories". 2002-08-12. Archived from the original on 12 August 2002. Retrieved 2025-05-21.
  37. ↑ Johnston, Stuart J. (2005-04-21). "Borland's Together 2005 Adds UML 2.0 and Role-based Work Model". Redmond Channel Partner. Retrieved 2025-05-26.
  38. ↑ "Together 2006 - новое комплексное решение моделирования информационных систем от компании Borland". Interface.ru (in Russian). 2006.
  39. ↑ "Borland® Together® 2007 Release Notes". Borland. Archived from the original on 2009-08-16. Retrieved 2025-05-10.
  40. ↑ "Vorlesung "Softwaretechnologie" 2008/2009 Borland Together 2007 SP1" (in German). Universität Bonn. 2008. Retrieved 2025-05-10.
  41. ↑ "Borland® Together®". Borland. Archived from the original on 2009-08-09.
  42. ↑ "Borland® Together® 2008 Release 2 Release Notes". Borland. 2009-07-29. Archived from the original on 2009-08-15. Retrieved 2025-05-10.
  43. ↑ "Borland® Together® 2008 Release 4 Release Notes". Microfocus.
  44. ↑ "Borland® Together® 12.0 Release Notes: October 1, 2012". Microfocus. 2012-10-01.
  45. ↑ "Together 12.5". Interface.ru (in Russian).
  46. ↑ "Together Documentation". OpenText. Retrieved 2024-05-10.
  47. ↑ "Borland® Together® 12.6 Release Notes. November 28, 2013". OpenText. 2013-11-28. Retrieved 2024-05-10.
  48. ↑ "Data Sheet, Together 12.6" (PDF). borland.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-02-16. Retrieved 2025-05-10.
  49. ↑ "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.]
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