Nu-Mega Announces Soft-ICE for Windows 95
Nu-Mega Technologies, Inc. has announced the availability of Soft-ICE for Windows 95, a system-aware debugging tool. Unlike other debuggers, Soft-ICE loads before Windows 95 and allows debugging even through the Windows 95 initialization code. Soft-ICE for Windows 95 supports address contexts and threads, and allows the developer to set breakpoints on Windows messages, I/O ports, interrupts, and memory accesses.The memory range breakpoint feature allows developers to capture a program's execution history in a trace buffer while the program is executing.
Soft-ICE can also debug through interrupt service routines, drivers, and virtual device drivers (VxDs) at the source code level. Soft-ICE for Windows 95 is available for $399. Upgrades for existing customers are available, as are corporate site license options.
For more information contact Nu-Mega Technologies, Inc., P.O. Box 7780, Nashua, NH 03060-7780. +1-603-889-2386. FAX: +1-603-889-1135. e-mail: info@numega.com. WWW: http://www.numega.com/.
Stingray Software Announces VC++/MFC Class Libs
Stingray Software, Inc. has released two new Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) extension class libraries, MFC++ 1.0 (Mantaray Foundation Classes++) and Objective Grid 1.0. Both products provide a variety of MFC-based C++ classes that Microsoft Visual C++ programmers can use in developing Windows 95 applications.MFC++ 1.0 is a set of general-purpose MFC extension classes that fall into a range of categories including document/view enhancements; image classes for reading, writing, and manipulating popular image formats; Win32 classes; MDI alternative classes; and MFC-based control classes.
Objective Grid provides a grid control that supports a variety of cell types and can be used in many different contexts. For example, Objective Grid can be used as a child window, as a pop-up window, and in a dialog.
Objective Grid provides ODBC support via a set of CRecordSet derivatives. The developer can attach Objective Grid to any data source by overriding one C++ virtual function. Also, Objective Grid supports printing, print preview, find/replace and cut/copy/paste and completely integrates these operations with existing MFC classes.
The introductory price for MFC++ is $495 and the introductory price for Objective Grid is $395. The two products are being offered as a bundle for the introductory price of $795. Both products include full source code at no additional cost. All current versions of Microsoft Visual C++ (l.5x, 2.x) are supported including 16-bit and 32-bit releases. For more information contact Stingray Software, Inc., 1201-F Raleigh Rd., Ste. 140, Chapel Hill, NC 27514. 800-924-4223 or +1-919-321-6186. FAX: +1-919-321-6186. e-mail: StingSoft@aol.com. WWW:http://www.unx.com/~stingray.
MKS Announces MKS Code Integrity
Mortice Kern Systems Inc. has released MKS Code Integrity Version 1.1, a C source code analysis tool for UNIX platforms, consisting of a code analysis engine, an extensible API database, and graphical user interface. Developers can use the tool interactively to identify and reduce unexpected system and IT architecture dependencies, develop a Software Development Kit (SDK) approach to their IT architecture, access API and standards information, and create portable and maintainable code. Development managers can use Code Integrity to follow established coding policy, manage complex code development, assess ports to new platforms, and reduce porting and maintenance costs.For organizations seeking to develop standards-conforming software solutions, MKS Code Integrity also integrates such internationally accepted standards as ANSI C, POSIX.1, POSIX.2, XPG3, XPG4, Single UNIX Specification, Motif, and X11 Libraries. Development teams can also use MKS Code Integrity to create a portability model unique to their own organization.
Version 1.1 of MKS Code Integrity is shipping at a special introductory price of US $1500 for Solaris, SunOS, HP/UX, and AIX UNIX platforms. This introductory pricing offer will last until December 31, 1995. Multi-user licensing is also available. A C++ version of the product is expected in early 1996. For more information contact MKS Inc., 185 Columbia St. West, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 5Z5, CANADA. 800-265-2797 or +1-519-884-2251. FAX: +1-519-884-8861. e-mail: sales@mks.com. WWW: http://www.mks.com.
Rogue Wave Announces Net.h++
Rogue Wave Software has announced the release of Net.h++, an object-oriented interface to network communication services, simplifying client/server and peer-to-peer development. The initial release includes a C++ implementation of the Berkeley socket interface (the programming interface to TCP/IP) and will be portable between UNIX, Windows, and Windows NT. Net.h++'s three-tiered architecture provides a portable framework for working with network channels and protocols. Each layer is built on the one before, and offers increasingly abstract services. A developer can use any or all of the layers of Net.h++, depending on the requirements of the application.Net.h++ 1.0 includes an IOstream module that handles communication into and out of a portal using the standard C++ IOstream classes and Rogue Wave's virtual streams. The virtual streams classes provide a persistence mechanism for transmitting complicated data structures across a network.
Net.h++ 1.0 will include support for SunOS, Solaris, HP/UX, Windows, and Windows NT. Both source code and object code are available, and pricing starts at $499. Tools.h++ is required for use of Net.h++. For more information contact Rogue Wave Software, Inc., 260 SW Madison, P.O. Box 2328, Corvallis, OR 97339. 800-487-3217 or +1-503-754-3010. FAX: +1-503-757-6650. WWW: http://www.roguewave.com.
Rational Updates Three Rational Rose Products
Rational Software Corporation announced new releases of Rational Rose/C++, Rational Rose/PowerBuilder, and Rational Rose/SQL Windows.Rational Rose/C++ v3.0 adds the Object Modeling Technique (OMT) to its support for Booch '93, allowing it to provide full round-trip engineering for these two leading object methods. Rational Rose/C++ includes customizable code generation, reverse engineering, model differencing, and design-update features. The reverse-engineering capabilities can also be used to create design models of legacy code and class libraries to facilitate reengineering and reuse.
Rational Rose/PowerBuilder and Rational Rose/SQLWindows enhance 4GL tools by enabling developers to build largescale, enterprise-wide applications using a model-driven architectural approach.
Rational Rose/C++ v3.0 runs on Windows, AIX, HP/UX, Solaris, and SunOS platforms. Prices range from $2,400 (U.S. price) to $8,400 (U.S. price), include one year of support, and are based on platform and functionality. Rational Rose/PowerBuilder version 2.7 and Rational Rose/SQLWindows version 2.7 are available for $2,400 (U.S. price), including one year of support. The products run on standard PC platforms under Windows and were scheduled to begin shipping in October 1995. Under an agreement with Gupta Corporation, a time-locked version of Rational Rose/SQLWindows version 2.7 will be bundled and distributed on the CD-ROM release of the SQLWindows Corporate Edition, which will be shipped to all new SQLWindows customers. For more information contact Rational Software Corporation, 2800 San Tomas Expressway, Santa Clara, CA 95051-0951. +1-408-496-3600. FAX: +1-408-496-3636. e-mail: product_info@rational.com. WWW: http://www.rational.com.
Software Research Announces New Versions of STW/Coverage
Software Research, Inc. announced STW/Coverage for Windows v1.1 and STW/Coverage v3.0 for UNIX. STW/Coverage helps determine how well products have been tested, through a variety of textual, graphic, and tabular reports. Using a compiler-based implementation, STW/Coverage for Windows permits the coverage analyzer to support standard versions of C and C++ for Microsoft Windows 3.1, Windows 95, and Windows NT. It supports Microsoft C++ v6 and later, and Microsoft Visual C++ v1.5 and v2.0. The new UNIX version supports all standard versions of the C and C++ programming language for most UNIX platforms. Both versions of STW/Coverage support C++ templates. The extensive error checking of STW/Coverage identifies syntax errors and allows the developer to correct them before continuing. STW/Coverage for Windows v1.1 prices for single licenses start at $2,500. The price for a single license of the UNIX branch and call-pair coverage analyzer is $4,125. A license of the complete STW/Coverage for UNIX bundle is $7,250. For more information contact Software Research, Inc., 625 3rd St., San Francisco, CA 94107-1997. +1-415-957-1441. FAX: +1-415-957-0730. e-mail: info@soft.com.
Softel vdm Releases SftTabs 2.0 for Windows
Softel vdm has announced an update of its tabbed dialog tool kit, SftTabs. SftTabs 2.0 provides tab controls that can be used with dialogs and also with regular windows. The new tab controls support many different styles and tab locations (such as top, left, right, or bottom), including the popular notebook style. Individual tabs can use different colors, display bitmaps or icons, use special fonts, and display multiline text with various alignment options.The included tab design application allows developers to create the desired tab control look (including colors and bitmaps) and generate the required C or C++ runtime source code.
SftTabs supports development of "wizard"-style dialogs and similar multi-page dialogs that can be switched in response to other Windows controls (such as list boxes, buttons, or Softel vdm's SftTree tree control). Because SftTabs is not restricted to dialogs, it can be used in any kind of window.
Another unusual feature is the available nesting, allowing tab controls (and dialogs) to contain additional tab controls with dialogs.
SftTabs supports Windows 3.1, Win32s, Windows NT, and Windows 95 using the same API, allowing easy migration of applications across the supported platforms. The 16-bit and 32-bit DLLs can be used with C and C++ (MFC and OWL classes are included), or other DLL-capable languages using the SendMessage API.
SftTabs is implemented as a DLL-based custom control, with support for the Windows SDK dialog editor (16- and 32-bit), Microsoft's Visual C++ AppStudio, and Borland's Resource Workshop. SftTabs 2.0 includes sample code written in C and C++ (for both MFC and OWL).
SftTabs 2.0 is offered at $329 (single developer license, without DLL source code) or $478 (single developer license, including DLL source code). Site licensing and volume discounts are available. Each SftTabs license supports Windows 3.1, Windows NT, and Windows 95 and is royalty-free. Technical support is available via telephone, fax, BBS and CompuServe. For more information contact Softel vdm, 11 Michigan Ave., Wharton, NJ 07885. +1-201-366-9618. FAX: + 1-201-366-3984.
ProtoView Announces DataTable v3.0
ProtoView Development Corporation has released version 3.0 of DataTable, its grid control component; and announced enhancements to PICS, its interface component set; and has added enhancements to ProtoView Visual HelpBuilder, a rapid application development (RAD) help authoring system. All three products support Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0, Microsoft Visual C++ 4.0; Borland C++ compilers; and front-end development tools that can use a dynamic link library (DLL), a Visual Basic common control (VBX), or an OLE common control (OOCX) component.DataTable 3.0 includes support for 32-bit architecture and for OCXs. PICS 1.5, a collection of nine interface objects for obtaining, formatting, and editing data, now offers developers Delphi support and Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC) 4.0 classes, as well as OWL classes. Version 2.6 of ProtoView's Visual Help integrates Visual Basic 4.0 and Visual C++ 4.0.
DataTable 3.0 (16-bit DLL, VBX, OCX) is priced at $149.00, with a $99.96 upgrade. Multiple configuration and upgrade options are available.
For more information contact ProtoView Development Corp., 2540 Route 130, Cranbury, NJ 08512. +1-609-655-5000. FAX: +1-609-655-5353.
ObjectSpace Releases ObjectCatalog
ObjectSpace, Inc. has released ObjectCatalog, a distributed, cross-platform component-reuse facility that offers a solution to the problem of locating reuseable components. ObjectCatalog enables different development teams to share information about software, design patterns, frameworks, documents, and other corporate assets. With ObjectCatalog, a user fills out simple questionnaires and defines search patterns to find target entries in local and remote catalogs. Matching entries are then presented graphically according to their degree of similarity to the request.ObjectCatalog is priced at $8,500 for the server and between $495 and $795 for each client, depending on the volume of clients. ObjectCatalog runs on Windows, Windows 95, Windows NT, OS/2, SunOS, HP/UX, Solaris and IBM AIX. ObjectCatalog add-ons are available to catalog descriptions of selected class libraries such as the SmallTalk base classes and Systems<ToolKit>, ObjectSpace's C++ class library. For more information contact ObjectSpace, Inc., 14881 Quorum Drive, Ste. 400, Dallas, TX 75240. +1-214-934-2496. FAX: +1-214-663-3959. e-mail: info@objectspace.com.
StarBase Corporation Announces StarTeam for Windows
StarBase Corporation has announced StarTeam for Windows 95, Windows NT, and Windows 3.11. StarTeam integrates version control, defect tracking, electronic conferencing (called Topics), auditing, and reporting systems that include charting capabilities. StarTeam combines this functionality into one product and one interface with one central repository of project information. In addition, StarTeam provides integration into Integrated Development Environments (IDE), initially for Microsoft Visual C++. This integration provides functionality in the VC++ project window, allowing the developer access to version control, defect tracking, and electronic conferencing entirely within Visual C++. For more information contact StarBase Corporation, 18872 MacArthur Boulevard, Ste. 400, Irvine, CA 92715. +1-714-442-4400. FAX: +1-714-253-6712.
Illustra Releases Suite of PC Tools
Illustra Information Technologies Inc. has released Client Toolkit, a suite of development tools enabling users to create applications that integrate spreadsheets, images, text, or virtually any kind of data — with or without knowledge of programming languages — in a Microsoft Office environment. Illustra also has released Illustra Server v3.1, optimized for Windows NT. The suite of PC tools allow the developer to create customized Windows and Windows NT applications that integrate multimedia, text, numbers, and other data. Developers can access Illustra's extensible architecture from Excel spread sheets, Visual Basic, Access, Microsoft Query, and other desktop applications.The latest revision of the Illustra Server uses completely native Windows APIs, thereby avoiding the need for third party layers between the server and the operating system.
Starting price for the NT Server is US$1,250 per concurrent user, with a five-seat minimum, including the Client Toolkit. The new tools are individually priced as follows: ODBC Driver — US$99 per user; Schema Knowledge — US$695 per user; Illustra C++ Interface — US$395 per user. The complete suite of tools is included with purchase of the new release of Illustra Server. Starting price for the NT Server is US$1,250 per concurrent user, with a five-seat minimum. For more information contact Illustra Information Technologies, Inc., 1111 Broadway, Ste. 2000, Oakland, CA 94607. +1-510-652-8000. FAX: +1-510-869-6388. WWW: http://www.illustra.com.
Versant Ships Versant ODBMS v4.0
Versant Object Technology Corporation has released version 4.0 of Versant ODBMS, an object database management system. Versant ODBMS provides features such as optimistic locking to improve query performance and overall throughput; query enhancements including support for navigational queries, cursors, pattern matching, and Boolean functions; and server-based event notification that improves performance by reducing costly polling between clients and servers on the network.For more information contact Versant Object Technology, 1380 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025. +1-415-329-7500. FAX: +1-415-325-2380.
CenterLine Ports C/C++ Tools to IBM RS/6000 and PowerPC
CenterLine Software, Inc. announces a version of its popular UNIX C/C++ development tools for the IBM RS/6000 and Power PC platforms running AIX. The release includes TestCenter, a testing tool for the AIX environment, and CodeCenter, the company's C programming environment.TestCenter provides developers with automatic error detection, the ability to produce hard-to-simulate error conditions, and receive visual feedback on the thoroughness of their testing. CodeCenter provides a C programming environment used for prototyping, building, testing, debugging, enhancing, and maintaining UNIX programs.
U.S. list prices start at $1,495 per user for TestCenter and $1,995 per user for CodeCenter, and include support and maintenance for the first year. For more information contact CenterLine Software, Inc., Corporate Headquarters, 10 Fawcett St., Cambridge, MA 02138-1110. +1-617-498-3000. FAX: +1-617-868-6655.
QualSoft Announces XFaceMaker v3.1
QualSoft Corporation and Non Standard Logics (NSL) have announced that their newest version of X/Motif GUI builders, the XFaceMaker V3.1 family, is now available in North America. The XFaceMaker family includes four compatible and upgradable GUI builders: XFaceMaker/IDT (interface development tool), XFaceMaker/IL (intermediate level user interface management system), XFaceMaker /UIMS (advanced user interface management system) and XFaceMaker/WF (Widget Factory).The XFaceMaker enhanced dual-process architecture allows full recovery from design errors, and reduces development time. The dual-process architecture also enables on-the-fly loading of third party widgets, application functions, or libraries. All products run on current versions of SunSPARC SunOS and Solaris 2, HP9000 HP/UX, IBM RS/6000 AIX, SGI IRIX, DEC OSF/l, SCO ODT, as well as Concurrent MAXION RTU and MAX/OS.
This family of builders offers specific GUI development tools for specific development tasks, ranging from a simple screen painter to a sophisticated animator. A simple license key change transforms the tool from a $2,000 interface development tool (XFaceMaker/IDT) to a $3,500 intermediate-level user interface management system (XFaceMaker/EL), to a full featured $5,000 UIMS (XFaceMaker/UIMS), to the $9,250 XFaceMaker/Widget Factory for developers needing dynamic graphics or custom widget class creation. For $995, XFaceMaker users developing relational database front ends can use XFaceMaker/db to build user interfaces which are portable among Oracle, Sybase, Informix, and CA/Ingres. All tools share the same user interface and dual-process, fault-tolerant architecture. For more information contact QualSoft Corporation, 1860 Embarcadero Road, Ste. 175, Palo Alto, CA 94303. 800-814-6351 or +1-415-494-6100. FAX: +1-415-494-6099. e-mail: info@qsoft.com.
UnderWare Announces TrackRecord 2.0
UnderWare, Inc., the original developers of BRIEF, has released Track Record v2.0, an information tracking tool for PC software developers that runs under Microsoft Windows and Windows 95. This updated version adds interactive form editing, OLE automation support, and many other features to v1.5. Track Record helps software developers track the details of their software projects (including bug reports, suggestions, release, test cycles, and even day-to-day schedules). Track Record is based on a true object-oriented database. For more information contact UnderWare, Inc., 321 Columbus Ave., Boston, MA 02116. +1-617-267-9743.
Isis Announces Orbix+Isis Object Request Broker
Isis Distributed Systems, Inc. and IONA Technologies, Ltd. announced the release of Orbix+Isis Object Request Broker (ORB). Orbix+Isis, a joint development between Isis Distributed Systems and IONA Technologies, combines IONA's Orbix object request broker with the Isis Reliable Software Development Kit (SDK), Runtime, and Message Distribution Service (MDS). Orbix+Isis implements an ORB and distributed server objects in "Object Groups" that are accessed by clients according to CORBA standards. Orbix+Isis is available as a single bundled package from either Isis or IONA. For more information contact Isis Distributed Systems Inc., 55 Fairbanks Blvd., Marlboro, MA 01752. 800-258-0990 or +1-508-460-2000. FAX: +1-508-481-9274.
Amzi! Releases Logic Server v3.3
Amzi! announced the release of its Logic Server v3.3, which supports Delphi and Windows '95. The Logic Server component provides methods for recording facts, issuing queries, and updating the logic base. It also blends readily into the Delphi environment by using its existing exception handling and help facilities. The Delphi component can also be used to extend the Logic Server so it can directly access other components and libraries. This makes it possible for logic bases to access the host application's data, functions, or other APIs.Amzi! Prolog+Logic Server 3.3 (formerly Cogent Prolog) is available in Professional and Personal Editions and runs under all versions of MS-Windows, NT, DOS, and Extended DOS. The system includes a full Prolog development system with a Windows IDE (Interactive Developer's Environment) and royalty-free, static, and dynamic Logic Server libraries. For more information contact Amzi! Inc., 40 Samuel Prescott Drive, Stow, MA 01775. +1-508-897-7332. FAX: +1-508-897-2784. e-mail: info@amzi.com.
Trident Systems Releases SDDGen Documentation Tool
Trident Systems Incorporated has released SDDGen, the UNIX-based tool that automates the process of developing and generating software documentation. SDDGen supports the construction of a software design and then automatically generates multiple design documents from the schematics. This multiple output feature enforces consistency across customer-ready reports, engineering notes, and code specifications. Multi-user capabilities support collaborative engineering while controlling configuration management. The product also provides customizable software design styles including object-oriented and structured design. A templating feature allows customization of the design document.SDDGen comes equipped with templates for DOD-STD-2167A and object-oriented design reports, as well as text export to word processing packages. SDDGen also generates code outlines that enforce software design compliance during development. SDDGen runs on Solaris, SunOS, HP/UX and IRIX. A Linux version is planned for the first quarter of 1996. SDDGen is priced at $1,195 for a single-node, multi-user license. For more information contact Trident Systems, Inc., 10201 Lee Highway, Ste. 300, Fairfax, VA 22030-2222. +1-703-691-7768. WWW: http://tridsys.com.