SlickEdit Unveils Visual SlickEdit v7.0
SlickEdit Inc. has announced Visual SlickEdit v7.0 for Windows and Unix, its multi-platform, multi-language editing environment. Visual SlickEdit v7.0 allows developers to take advantage of new technologies such as Java, XML, Unicode, and .NET to increase development productivity and improve software quality. New capabilities include: a native Java debugger, build tools, and EJB wizard; advanced XML editing capabilities; robust Unicode editing features including Level 1 Unicode regular-expression support, UTF and XML encodings, customizable color coding, and file differencing; integrated GNU C++ edit/compile/debug environment; and seamless support of Visual Studio .NET solutions and projects.
Visual SlickEdit v7.0 is available on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris SPARC, AIX, HP-UX, and IRIX. It is also available for OS/390 and z/OS mainframe developers as a mainframe offload development solution.
For pricing and additional information, contact SlickEdit Inc., 800.934.3348 or +1.919.473.0070; fax +1.919.473.0080; sales@slickedit.com; www.slickedit.com.
InstallShield Integrates InstallShield Developer 7 with MS Visual Studio .NET
InstallShield Software Corporation has announced InstallShield Developer 7 with full integration for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. InstallShield Developer 7 allows developers to create robust, reliable, .NET-based installations directly from within the Visual Studio .NET IDE, which helps reduce development and testing costs. As part of the Visual Studio .NET application solution, these installations are rebuilt automatically and remain up-to-date. Installations also automatically adjust to the build configuration selected for the particular application solution to ensure appropriate debug or release resources are included. InstallShield Developer 7 also provides users with enhanced file-dependency scanning for both .NET Assemblies and Win32 Components, support for “custom actions” in .NET Assemblies containing installer classes, support for COM Interop, .NET Assembly installation configuration, and streamlined distribution of the .NET Framework CLR (Common Language Runtime). Developer 7 can also be run outside the Visual Studio .NET IDE.
InstallShield Developer 7 costs $1,199. Existing InstallShield Developer 7 customers can update with Service Pack 4, at no charge, directly from within the product. Customers simply click the update button and the complete Service Pack is immediately delivered and installed via the InstallShield Update Service.
For more information, contact InstallShield Software Corporation, 800.374.4353 or +1.847.240.9111; sales@installshield.com; www.installshield.com.
Trolltech Debuts Teambuilder and Qtopia
Trolltech has announced Teambuilder, a network-based utility that speeds software compilation tasks, and Qtopia, a Linux-based application environment that brings the power of desktop computing to mobile embedded devices.
Teambuilder uses networked computers’ spare CPU cycles to speed compilation tasks by up to 14 times, decreasing the time spent waiting for an application to compile. Teambuilder provides easy setup and maintenance and ensures that new machines can be added quickly, with limited configuration, while optimizing compile times between multiple systems. Teambuilder works on Linux and requires no dedicated cluster. It requires no kernel or system changes, no NFS, and normally no changes to the existing build system.
Qtopia enables manufacturers to build powerful, intuitive, and resource-efficient PDAs, smart phones, Internet appliances, and other mobile devices that run embedded Linux. Developers write an application once, eliminating time-consuming porting tasks. Qtopia includes a comprehensive set of applications for productivity, information management, Internet content, entertainment, and synchronization across multiple desktop operating systems.
Teambuilder supports GNU C/C++ compilers and offers graphical monitoring and configuration tools. Licensing for Teambuilder starts at $750 for 5 machines, $1,200 for 10 machines, and $1,800 for 20 machines. Qtopia is available immediately free of charge to open-source developers.
For more information, contact Trolltech, +1.408.567.0212 or +47.21.60.48.00; info@trolltech.com or sales@trolltech.com; www.trolltech.com.
Entrek Delivers Entrek TOOLBOX Windows CE Edition v1.2
Entrek Software, Inc. has announced Entrek TOOLBOX Windows CE Edition v1.2, for developing application software for wireless and embedded platforms based on Windows CE. Entrek TOOLBOX Windows CE Edition consists of two tools: CodeSnitch and ProcMan. CodeSnitch is an application run-time error detection tool. With support for more than 100 Windows APIs, it reports memory and resource leaks, heap corruption, and API failures. ProcMan is a Windows CE system monitor and manager. It allows the user to monitor in real-time CPU, virtual memory, and heap usage. Applications can be fine-tuned by altering thread priority and quantum. ProcMan can also be used to debug GUI problems by displaying Windows properties and allowing experimentation with Windows attributes.
Entrek TOOLBOX Windows CE Edition costs $495 for a single-user license, $2,351.25 for 5 user licenses, and $4,603.50 for 10 user licenses. Site licensing is available.
For more information, contact Entrek Software, Inc., +1.206.903.8000; fax +1.206.838.5806; info@entrek.com; www.entrek.com.
Information Laboratory Announces Small Worlds
Information Laboratory has released Small Worlds, a C++ and Java software analysis and visualization tool. Based on standard UML relationships, Small Worlds automatically transforms software into large-scale dependency webs between components. It allows managers, engineers, and developers to navigate their software, assess its stability, find problematic areas (such as cyclic dependencies, heavy components, and hubs), and make changes to the software in the most effective way.
Small Worlds Visualizer for C++ costs $500, Small Worlds Analyzer for C++ costs $1,500, Small Worlds Visualizer for Java costs $200, and Small Worlds Analyzer for Java costs $1,000. A free three-week trial is available from the company’s website.
For more information, contact Information Laboratory, info@thesmallworlds.com; www.thesmallworlds.com.
Catalyst Releases SocketWrench Secure Edition 4.0
Catalyst Development Corporation has released SocketWrench Secure Edition 4.0, their commercial software development toolkit that simplifies Windows Sockets programming for client/server applications. SocketWrench Secure Edition 4.0 includes: ActiveX controls, standard DLLs, and C++ class wrappers in the same package; improved performance and reliability; compatibility with all 32-bit Intel-based Windows platforms from Windows 95 to Windows XP; improved interface for implementing the same functionality with fewer lines of code; support for secure client/server communications implementing the SSL 2.0, SSL 3.0, TLS 1.0, and PCT 1.0 protocols with support for up to 128-bit encryption; simplified distribution; a Remote Access Dialer control for creating, modifying, and establishing dial-up networking connections to ISPs and corporate WANs using the SLIP and PPP protocols; a File Encoding control and library for compressing, encoding, and decoding files in several common formats including base64 and quoted-printable; and more.
SocketWrench Secure Edition 4.0 costs $99 for a single developer license. A free fully functional 30-day evaluation copy can be downloaded from the company’s website. Upon purchase, the insertion of a serial number allows for an uninterrupted development process. SocketWrench Secure Edition 4.0 has a 30-day money-back guarantee and no run-time licensing or royalty fees. Site licenses are available. Catalyst provides unlimited, free website and email technical support. For-fee voice support is also available.
For more information, contact Catalyst Development Corporation, 800.776.3818 or +1.760.228.9653; fax +1.760.369.1185; info@catalyst.com; www.catalyst.com.
Banner Software Unveils Datatect v1.6
Banner Software has released Datatect v1.6, a Windows software utility that generates custom test data for all PC’s mainframe and client/server applications. Datatect can read in existing database table structures for Oracle, Sybase, Informix, MS Access, or any database that supports ODBC. Using these structures as a model, Datatect lets you create valid test data in any form, field content, and volume. Datatect can generate native database tables, both relational and non-relational, which can be written directly to your database. It can create ASCII flat files with fixed and variable-length fields and records using any delimiter (including no delimiters). Datatect v1.6 also includes VBScript support and the ability to create data files and 4Test code compatible with Segue’s SILKTest.
Datatect runs on Windows 95/98/NT/2000. A full-functioning demo with tutorials is available from the company’s website.
For pricing and additional information, contact Banner Software, 800.336.9969 or +1.916.481.1157; fax +1.916.481.8329; support@datatect.com; www.datatect.com.
IBM Delivers WebSphere Studio Tools
IBM has announced WebSphere Studio application development products for Linux and website development, as well as toolkits for building wireless, portal, and voice applications. All products are based on the Eclipse platform, which is supported by an open-source community for multi-vendor software tool integration. Using Eclipse-based tools, developers can integrate tasks to improve the quality of applications and time to market.
WebSphere Studio Application Developer for Linux includes an integrated unit test environment with support for Red Hat and SuSE Linux 7.1 or higher. WebSphere Studio Application Developer for Windows offers Windows XP and multi-language support. WebSphere Studio Site Developer provides tools for creating, managing, and maintaining dynamic e-business websites. Everyplace Toolkit enables Web developers to create wireless e-business applications and portals with HTML, WML, and Compact HTML. Portal Toolkit enables developers to create, test, debug, and deploy Web applications as portlets. WebSphere Voice Toolkit debugs applications by pinpointing where the VoiceXML code needs to be modified to match the required application flow.
WebSphere Studio Application Developer for Windows and Linux v4.03 costs $3,499 per seat. WebSphere Studio Site Developer Advanced for Windows v4.03 costs $1,999 per seat. WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition for Windows 4.1 costs $5,999 per seat. WebSphere Everyplace Toolkit v4.1 is available with WebSphere Everyplace Access v4.1. WebSphere Portal Toolkit v4.1 is available with WebSphere Portal v4.1. WebSphere Voice Toolkit is available for no charge.
For more information, contact IBM, 800.426.4968; www.ibm.com/ websphere.
Alphora Announces Dataphor
Alphora has announced Dataphor, a next-generation development toolset for automating many repetitive tasks traditionally associated with the application development process. Built on the .NET Framework, Dataphor combines relational concepts with advanced data management practices to deliver an AAD (Automated Application Development) foundation. Unlike RAD tools, which require time to create individual user interfaces, Dataphor allows developers to focus on the creation of the core data model and underlying process logic. Based on the given data model, Dataphor dynamically derives user interfaces and enforces business rules. The Dataphor toolset consists of the Dataphor Data Access Engine, a virtual RDBMS that employs state-of-the-art relational technology to provide a foundation for AAD, and the Dataphor Frontend, a collection of technologies focused on automating the user experience.
Dataphor costs $5,000/developer for a royalty-free single license. Alphora is offering an introductory price of $2,900/developer for the first six months from the release date.
For more information, contact Alphora, +1.801.371.6080; info@alphora.com; www.alphora.com.
ConeXL Offers PTest+ and CTest+
ConeXL, Inc. has announced PTest+ and CTest+, test benches that allow independent testing of message brokers built to JMS specifications.
PTest+ implements use cases that describe typical real-world scenarios where messaging is a key requirement. The tests include multiple Pub/Sub and Queuing tests, latency tests, message rules effect on performance, varying load, burst messaging (e-commerce), flow control, etc. The tests are periodically enhanced to take message brokers to their limits to determine where failure would occur.
CTest+ is a comprehensive test suite for testing the quality of product implementation against the JMS API standard. It includes positive tests for each line of the JMS 1.0.2 API and provides complete profiling of all JMS features. The test suite contains about 496 tests for testing Pub/Sub compliance and 222 tests for Queues.
For pricing and additional information, contact ConeXL, Inc., info@conexl.com; www.conexl.com.
Quiksoft Releases FreeSMTP.Net
Quiksoft Corporation has announced FreeSMTP.Net, a free .NET component for sending Internet email from .NET applications. FreeSMTP.Net is fully managed code written in 100% C# and surpasses the capabilities of the System.Web.Mail component included with .NET. The fully SMTP-compliant component supports text and HTML message bodies, unlimited recipients, international character sets, unlimited attachments, automatic MIME encoding, progress monitoring, custom headers, message queuing, file logging, message priorities, and integration with Visual Studio .NET’s dynamic help system.
FreeSMTP.Net is available for free download at www.freesmtp.net. EasyMail .Net Edition, a feature-rich version that includes more SMTP features as well as POP3, IMAP4, and parsing support, may be purchased from the company’s website.
For pricing and additional information, contact Quiksoft Corporation, +1.610.544.3139; fax +1.610.544.5565; www.quiksoftcorp.com.
S2 Technologies Introduces STRIDE
S2 Technologies has introduced STRIDE (Software Test and Runtime Interface Development Environment), the only RTOS-agnostic, interface-centric, and platform-independent tool that allows engineering teams to quickly and efficiently meet new product development requirements. STRIDE’s unique suite of embedded software tools and middleware offer developers control and visibility over their embedded applications from the desktop and extends this benefit throughout the entire product life cycle. By using innovative compiler and automation technologies, STRIDE creates a database representing the internal architecture of the embedded system and instantly provides the information required to test, trace, control, simulate, and script the embedded software.
For pricing and additional information, contact S2 Technologies, Inc., +1.760.783.0232; fax +1.760.635.2346; info@s2tec.com; www.s2tec.com.
Microcross Unveils GNU X-Tools v2.0 Standard Edition
Microcross, Inc. has announced GNU X-Tools v2.0 Standard Edition for Windows and Linux. GNU X-Tools v2.0 provides support for 21 embedded CPU families and over 200 variants. Open source, ready-to-run, GNU X-Tools comprises a standard GNU tool suite of C/C++, Java, and Fortran cross compilers; Visual IDE; Visual Debugger; assembler; binary utilities; and more. Supported target CPUs include ARC, ARM, AVR, H8, i386, i960, M32R, M6811, M68K/Coldfire, M-Core, MIPS, MIPS64, MN10200, MN10300, PowerPC, SHx, Sparc, Thumb, V85x, XScale, and Z8000.
GNU X-Tools v2.0 Standard Edition costs $499.95 and includes setup support. Yearly software support maintenance contracts cost $2,000 and include one copy of version 2.0, free upgrades, and telephone support.
For more information, contact Microcross, Inc., +1.478.953.1907; fax +1.478.953.7661; sales@microcross.com; www.microcross.com.
Empress Software Delivers ERT Toolkit
Empress Software, Inc. has announced the ERT (Embedded Real-Time) Toolkit, an embedded and real-time development environment. ERT Toolkit allows developers to achieve deterministic application behavior by deploying its data structures on top of the Empress database engine. The ERT data structures utilize the database engine’s integrity and persistence. ERT Toolkit is a C language API that implements a number of abstract data objects in the Empress RDBMS such as Array, Circular Buffer, Queue, Stack, Table, and Variable, as well as several special attributes. ERT Toolkit implements a C-callable API of 200+ functions that works with the abstract data objects and the Empress database.
ERT Toolkit, in source code format, costs $2,599 per developer seat for Empress licensees. ERT Toolkit with a starter Empress RDBMS license costs $2,999. A 10-incident Empress Assistance pack costs $1,499. ERT Toolkit includes prototype applications in source code format so that developers can use them as examples for generating similar applications.
For more information, contact Empress Software, Inc., +1.301.220.1919; info@empress.com; www.empress.com.
McObject Announces eXtremeDB 2.0
McObject has released eXtremeDB v2.0, a small footprint, main memory database that improves developer flexibility and enhances the run-time capabilities of applications based on eXtremeDB. With a footprint of 100K or less, eXtremeDB supports the data-hungry features of next-generation set-top boxes, network switches, industrial automation, and other intelligent devices. It delivers critical data management features and accelerates processing by storing and working with data in main memory. Version 2.0 enhancements include object versioning, notifications, new data types supported, and performance improvements.
McObject provides complete database source code for eXtremeDB. The database runs on all Windows platforms as well as Linux, VxWorks, and virtually all other operating systems, including RTOSs. An evaluation version of eXtremeDB 2.0 is available for free download.
For pricing and additional information, contact McObject LLC, +1.425.831.5964; info@mcobject.com; www.mcobject.com.
OSE Systems Releases Polyhedra 4.1
OSE Systems has announced Polyhedra 4.1, an in-memory relational database management system designed specifically for embedded data management. Polyhedra’s combination of event-driven active database code and active-query technology provides a fault-tolerant heterogeneous client-server solution for high-performance data management needs. Critical data changes are written to non-volatile store. Polyhedra’s data persistence includes a replication and fault-tolerant master/standby configuration to provide continuous database server availability with fault-tolerant transactions and clients. New features in Polyhedra 4.1 include improved client-server messaging, enhanced indexing to the server, ability to parse and plan the execution of SQL statements in advance of repeated use, improved multithreaded design, ability to control specific data replicated in a fault-tolerant pair, new and improved debugging facilities, and simplified set-up of persistent and fault-tolerant configurations.
Polyhedra servers and C/C++ client libraries are supported on the following interconnectable platforms: OSE, VxWorks, Unix, Red Hat Linux, Solaris, AIX, IRIX, and Windows NT/2000. Polyhedra 4.1 costs $11,995 for a development license. Volume pricing is available.
For more information, contact OSE Systems, Inc., +1.408.392.9300; fax +1.408.392.9301; sales@ose.com; www.ose.com.
Green Hills Unveils MULTI 3.5 IDE and Optimizing Compilers for MIPS32 and MIPS64
Green Hills Software has announced MULTI 3.5 IDE with enhanced optimizing compilers for MIPS Technologies’ MIPS32 and MIPS64 processors (plus support for MIPS R3000, R4000, R5000, and RM7000 architectures). MULTI 3.5 for MIPS processors is the result of collaboration between Green Hills Software and MIPS Technologies. The MULTI IDE automates all aspects of embedded software development for MIPS processors, including multi-core systems. It includes a window-oriented editor, source-level debugger, graphical program builder, run-time error checker, version-control system, performance profiler, speed/size optimizing profiler (CodeBalance), and real-time EventAnalyzer. Several key updates include debugger support for MIPS’ 20Kc core, compiler performance, and support for the 4KSc processor commonly used for smart-card applications. MULTI 3.5 also includes MIPSsim, an instruction and cycle-accurate simulator from MIPS Technologies that lets programmers develop and accurately test and benchmark their MIPS code on a PC or workstation without the need for target hardware.
MULTI is available for major 32- and 64-bit RISC and CISC CPUs, as well as several popular DSPs. MULTI supports a variety of host/target connectivity options, including BDM and JTAG OCD (On-Chip Debugging) solutions, EST’s visionICE, the FS2 In-Target System Analyzer, and various ROM Monitors. MULTI also supports the Green Hills Probe.
For pricing and additional information, contact Green Hills Software, +1.805.965.6044; sales@ghs.com; www.ghs.com.
TogetherSoft Delivers Together ControlCenter 6.0
TogetherSoft Corporation has announced Together ControlCenter 6.0, its Model-Build-Deploy solution for application development. Together ControlCenter’s integrated platform provides a single environment that drives developer productivity and collaboration. Key enhancements in Together ControlCenter 6.0 include: a new UI builder; improved text editor; new refactorings; testing framework module; full J2EE 1.3 certification including support for EJB 2.0; web services support for WSDL and integrated UDDI browser for finding and registering web services; new XML editor; real-time system modeling including four new diagrams, extensions to standard UML diagrams, an integrated simulator, and performance analysis of real-time systems; and new mobile licensing.
For pricing and additional information, contact TogetherSoft Corporation, +1.919.833.5550; fax +1.919.833.5533; www.togethersoft.com.