Case Study: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute achieves faster, higher-quality multi-platform Java development with Embarcadero Technologies' JBuilder

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute - Customer Case Study

The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) builds applications and instruments to collect, manage, and share oceanographic research data. Faced with a heterogeneous user environment, many concurrent projects with unique technical needs, tight delivery schedules, and a practice of daily continuous integration, MBARI needed a development tool that would reduce learning curves and reliably support multiple operating systems, databases, and application servers.

Adopting JBuilder 2007 Enterprise Edition — an Eclipse-based IDE — let MBARI leverage existing Eclipse skills and plugins while adding LiveSource UML modeling and Audits & Metrics for code quality. The result was greater flexibility across platforms, faster onboarding and project switching, improved daily build quality, and fewer defects, enabling the team to deliver reliable Java applications more efficiently.

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

Kevin Gomes

Senior Software Engineer