Cedar Ridge Software has announced HypheGrid 2.0, a scrollable grid control for Java. Version 2.0 features include support for a variety of cell types (single line text, multiline text, choice box, button, and image), support for cell level attributes (color, font, alignment), and support for row and column selection. A simple grid object requires only 70 KB of Java bytecode, and the most complex grid needs only 150 KB.
HypheGrid lets you add scrolling grids of tabular data to applications. With HypheGrid, users can scroll through a large set of table rows, move and resize table columns, and edit data in the table directly through the grid. You have extensive control over the appearance and properties of the grid embedded in your code. Functions are available to set colors and fonts for a wide variety of grid features. The data displayed in the grid is supplied by an object created by you and linked to the grid, and a variety of callback functions are available to notify the program about grid events.
Cedar Ridge Software
619 Willow Avenue, 3L
Hoboken, NJ 07030
201-714-4804
http://www.cnct.com/~rowland/cedarridge
Softel vdm has released SftTree/OCX 2.0, an ActiveX control which offers hierarchical data displays with features such as multiple columns, multiple selection, multiple text lines per item, built-in row and column headers (with optional buttons and bitmaps), user-resizable columns, grid lines, 3-D item display, sorting, optimal column width, and horizontal scroll-area calculation.
Several bitmaps per item can be used including user-definable expand/collapse button bitmaps and cell bitmaps. Cells offer individual color, font, and bitmap attributes to make data stand out by highlighting it or by adding suitable bitmaps. The available drag-and-drop support
assists in drag-and-drop processing inside one tree control and also outside. Vertical scrolling during drag-and-drop processing is fully supported.
SftTree/OCX 2.0 includes 16-bit and 32-bit ActiveX controls, which support Windows 3.1/95/NT. The royalty-free controls can be used with Visual Basic, Delphi, Visual C++, MS Access, and most other development tools that support ActiveX controls. A single-developer license for SftTree/OCX 2.0 sells for $269.00.
Softel vdm
11 Michigan Avenue
Wharton, NJ 07885-2540
201-366-9618
http://www.softelvdm.com
O'Reilly & Associates recently released WebSite Professional, which supports server-side Java programming and ships with a Java software development kit (SDK). The class library at the heart of WebSite Professional's server-side Java support encapsulates all of the details of the interface between the server and server-side applets. Consequently, you work with objects, properties, and methods that represent the Web transaction. For example, HTML form data are represented as Java objects, since the class library exposes WebSite Professional's built-in forms decoder.
O'Reilly & Associates
103 Morris Street
Sebastopol, CA 95472
707-829-0515
http://www.ora.com
Microsoft has announced its Internet Security Framework, a set of security technologies for electronic commerce and on-line communications that supports Internet security standards. The framework is available for Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX; in addition, the security framework will integrate with existing Windows-based security systems.
The Internet Security Framework supports secure communication, controlling access to systems and content, and secure financial transactions, by providing a set of APIs and technologies including: CryptoAPI 1.0, which provides extensible, exportable, system-level access to common cryptographic functions; CryptoAPI 2.0, which provides a complete public key infrastructure, including certificate-based authentication services and extensible certificate management functions; code-
signing, which provides "shrink wrap" for the Internet; secure channel protocols to enable point-to-point communication privacy; client authentication that lets servers verify identity via public-key certificates and to enforce access control; distributed authentication technology based on passwords; and more.
Development kits for the Internet Security Framework will be included in the ActiveX SDK.
Microsoft Corp.
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052
206-882-8080
http://www.microsoft.com
Rational Software has announced Rational Summit, an integrated tool for software change management, defect tracking, and process enforcement. Summit helps manage the overall software change process, including resource allocation, change submission and tracking, and measurement and management of the process. Summit can be customized and configured to meet specific change-management needs.
The tool runs on open-systems platforms in conjunction with Rational Apex, Rational's software-engineering environment. Rational Apex supports C/C++, Java, and Ada and provides capabilities for editing, debugging, configuration management, and architecture control.
Rational Software Corp.
2800 San Tomas Expressway
Santa Clara, CA 95051-0951
408-496-3600
http://www.rational.com
Creating Killer Web Sites, by David Siegel, is a book recently released by Hayden Books. The book focuses on what you need to know to make Web sites visually appealing with easy-to-understand instructions. It also goes beyond the usual icon-and-menu design tactics of most Web sites, teaching you "how to break the grip of HTML." The book also includes tips on effective typography, clean graphics, site architecture, and information design. Creating Killer Web Sites sells for $45.00; ISBN 1-56830-289-4.
Hayden Books/Macmillan Computer Publishing
201 W 103rd Street
Indianapolis, IN 46290
800-428-5331
http://www.mcp.com/
Tower Technology has announced TowerEiffel Release 2.0, an object-oriented life-cycle development environment for building reusable frameworks, applications, and systems. The tool is targeted at software developers building three-tier client/server systems with complex middle-tier requirements. TowerEiffel 2.0 provides commercialized support for the Eiffel programming language, and includes an integrated development environment and tools, compilation technology, and reusable libraries for GUI, database interface, data structures, and distributed processing support.
TowerEiffel 2.0 includes support for direct interoperability with C, C++, and Objective-C; serialization for persistent storage and distributed processing; a user-configurable run time; precompiled static and dynamic library support; and object file locking.
TowerEiffel 2.0 Professional is for Windows NT/95 and Linux. The tool sells for $995.00; UNIX versions sell for $1995.00. There are no run-time fees. TowerEiffel 2.0 Lite sells for $325.00 per user on all platforms.
Tower Technology Corp.
1501 West Koenig Lane
Austin, TX 78756
512-452-9455
http://www.twr.com
Crescent Software has announced Visual Basic AppFramework, a Visual Basic tool that resides directly in the Visual Basic environment and consolidates development steps. You use VB AppFramework to layout a complete custom-application framework to start a new project, add related collections of controls to any form, customize forms and controls without accessing the properties window, insert commonly used forms into existing projects, and "clean-up" nonconforming visual designs.
VB AppFramework includes a library of royalty-free, professionally designed forms, functions, and frameworks. You can use the supplied elements as is, customize them to meet your needs, or build upon existing objects to include new styles, templates, and frameworks. VB AppFramework sells for $249.00.
Crescent/Progress Software Corp.
14 Oak Park
Bedford, MA 01730
617-280-3000
http://www.progress.com/crescent
TurboPower Software has released SysTools 1.0, a low-level system-oriented library for Delphi 1.0/2.0 application development. SysTools provides sorting routines for handling any data type, functions for manipulating strings and dates, high-precision BCD arithmetic (with up to 38 digits of accuracy), routines for handling INI files and the registry, and more. SysTools also supports 16- and 32-bit compatibility, as well as being threadsafe in 32-bit programs. Unlike ActiveX, OCX, VBX, or DLL-based components, SysTools compiles directly into an application. The royalty-free toolkit sells for $149.00.
TurboPower Software
4775 Centennial Boulevard., Suite 114
Colorado Springs, CO 80919
800-333-4160
http://www.tpower.com
BAPCo has released SYSmark/32, a tool that measures performance of systems running Windows 95/NT. Benchmarking workloads within SYSmark/32 represent word processing, spreadsheets, database, desktop graphics, desktop presentation, and desktop publishing. SYSmark/32 includes components for application software, scripts, and data necessary to run workloads; automated running of workload scripts; automatic generation and storage of test results, and system-configuration information. SYSmark/32 sells for $99.00.
Business Applications Performance Corp.
2200 Mission College Boulevard
Santa Clara, CA 95052
408-988-7654
http://www.bapco.com
In conjunction with the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG), Fujitsu, and Absoft, Imagine1 has introduced the F programming language. F is a subset of the most- recent version of Fortran. F retains the modern features of Fortran--modules and data abstraction, for example--but discards facilities such as EQUIVALENCE, which are difficult to teach, use, or debug. It is a safe, portable programming language. F may be used by the Fortran 77 programmer as a transition to the new concepts in Fortran 95 or in High Performance Fortran (HPF).
F is available for UNIX and Linux platforms, the 68K or PowerPC Macintosh, and PCs running Windows 95/NT. NAG is providing the compiler technology used in the UNIX and Linux implementations of F, Fujitsu the compiler technology used in the Windows implementations, and Absoft the compiler technology used in the Macintosh implementations.
Two books about F, The F Programming Language, by Mike Metcalf and John Reid (Oxford University Press, 1996), and Programmer's Guide to F, by Walt Brainerd, Charlie Goldberg, and Jeanne Adams (Unicomp, 1996), are also available.
F on Linux is free for educational users (via anonymous ftp at ftp.swcp.com in the pub/walt/F directory and at the Web site). Prices include $101.00 for other educational users, $201.00 for professional users, and $301.00 for a three-platform professional package. Site licenses and volume discounts are available.
Imagine1
11930 Menaul Boulevard NE, Suite 106
Albuquerque, NM 87112
505-323-1758
http://www.imagine1.com/imagine1/
ObjectSpace has released Web<ToolKit>, an ANSI/ISO-compatible C++ library for building HTML-based Web pages. Web<ToolKit> supports HTML page creation using a set of C++ classes representing HTML elements, including text, links, graphics, tables, forms, frames, and widgets. The library sells for $349.00 for PC platforms, and $475.00 for UNIX systems.
ObjectSpace
14881 Quorum Drive, Suite 400
Dallas, TX 75240
214-934-2496
http://www.objectspace.com
Bachman Information Systems (formerly Cadre Technologies and Cayenne Software) has announced Cayenne 2000, a Windows-based analysis, reporting, and resource estimating tool for organizations undertaking Year 2000 date conversions for Cobol applications. The tool enables you to identify all date-related objects, and objects with which they interact, in a single Cobol program or group of programs that operate as a unit. Cayenne 2000 sells for $1497.00.
Bachman Information Systems
8 New England Executive Park
Burlington, MA 01803
617-273-9003
http://www.cayennesoft.com
Vivid Resolution for Visual Basic and HTML is a rapid-application generator from InTek Technologies that automatically generates fully functional applications (projects, forms, data access objects, and script) from visual application and data models into VB Enterprise Edition 4.0 and HTML. The HTML generator tags model data with the appropriate markup code so it can be read by an HTML-standardized application or browser. The tagged data can then be merged with one of the formatting templates available via the Microsoft Internet Database Connector (IDBC). The tool will initially sell for $995.00.
InTek Technologies
5000 Peachtree Ind. Boulevard., Suite 150
Norcross, GA 30071
770-840-2500
http://www.intekinc.com
VanillaSearch, a Java search class from Thought Inc., provides Unicode pattern-matching search capabilities using standard regular expression syntax derived from UNIX-grep/Perl syntax. VanillaSearch can be used with standard English or programmer-defined META characters. It also lets you add wildcard searching to Java applications, understanding Java data types, such as String and char[]. Demos are available for download at no cost, student versions sell for $49.00, with commercial versions starting at $495.00.
Thought Inc.
2222 Leavenworth Street, Suite 304
San Francisco, CA 94133
415-928-4229
http://www.thoughtinc.com