HyperAct has announced HyperTerp Delphi scripting language, a drag-and-drop VCL component for Borland's Delphi. The component allows you to integrate HyperTerp scripting into your application's user interface. There is no royalty for using the component, and it comes in both a 16-bit and 32-bit version. HyperAct also announced CyberTerp, a scripting engine based on HyperTerp, that lets you write WinCGI-compliant programs.

HyperAct Inc.

3437 335th Street

West Des Moines, IA 50266

515-987-2910

http://www.hyperact.com/

CORBAplus for C++ and OLE from PowerBroker is a comprehensive implementation of the CORBA 2.0 specification. CORBAplus for OLE automatically converts CORBA interfaces into OLE Automation interfaces for inclusion into Windows OLE applications, allowing you to access CORBA objects from OLE automatically. CORBAplus is available for Windows NT, Windows 95, and most UNIX systems.

ExperSoft

6620 Mesa Ridge Road

San Diego, CA 92121

619-546-4100

http://www.expersoft.com/

MindQ has developed a multimedia Java CD-ROM called An Introduction to Programming Java Applets. The CD uses graphics, animation, narration, and video as teaching aids. It includes a graphical introduction to object-oriented programming, glossary, and visualizations and animations to demonstrate sample Java programs. The CD requires Windows 95/NT.

MindQ Publishing

450 Springpark Place, Suite 1200

Herndon, VA 22070

703-708-9380

http://www.mindq.com/

Amzi! has announced a Java class for the Amzi! Logic Server. The tool lets you embed intelligent components and agents in Java applications, clients, and servers. These components diagnose problems, analyze web documents, recommend configurations, provide advice, monitor activity, and the like. The Logic Server Class is implemented as 32-bit DLLs that run under Windows 95/NT with the Java Development Kit from Sun. The Class provides over 50 methods for querying and managing rules and facts in logic bases. Full source code is included. The Logic Server is part of Amzi! Prolog + Logic Server, which is designed for embedding intelligent components, agents, and logic bases in a variety of client and server applications.

Amzi! also announced the immediate availability of the Amzi! Logic Explorer which lets you learn about and build logic-bases. It provides a Windows IDE with an editor for writing the facts and rules, an interpreter for querying and managing the logic-base, and a debugger to monitor the execution of the queries. The Explorer also includes a complete tutorial (in Windows Help), a collection of magazine articles, and many samples of intelligent components with full source code to inspire you. The Amzi! Logic Explorer runs under Windows 3.x/95/NT and is free for personal use.

Amzi! Inc.

40 Samuel Prescott Drive

Stow, MA 01775

508-897-7332

http://www.amzi.com/

Sheridan Software has announced its Sheridan Components Suite. It contains Calendar Widgets, Designer Widgets, and Data Widgets. Data Widgets is a new set of 16- and 32-bit ActiveX controls for developing front ends for database applications. Designer Widgets includes a Dockable Toolbar, Notebook Control, Index Tabs, and FormFX. Calendar Widgets is a set of components for visually displaying date- and time-related information in Windows-based applications.

Sheridan Software Systems Inc.

35 Pinelawn Road, Suite 206E

Melville, NY 11747

516-753-0985

http://www.shersoft.com/

Ryan McFarland, a division of Liant Software, has released the VanGui Interface Builder for Delphi as part of a comprehensive suite of tools known collectively as the VanGui Product Set. The Interface Builder is designed to help integrate Cobol applications with Windows-based GUI and data-access technologies for client/server environments. It enables Cobol developers to use their choice of industry standard tools such as Delphi and Visual Basic to develop the Windows client/user interface for Windows or UNIX-based Cobol applications. It is available for Windows and UNIX applications running on HP/UX, AIX, SCO, Solaris, and AT&T SVR4 platforms.

Liant Software

8911 North Capital of Texas Highway,

Suite 4300

Austin, Texas 78759-7267

512-343-1010

http://www.liant.com/rm/

FairCom has announced the release of its 32-bit Open Database Connectivity Driver Kit for c-tree Plus and the FairCom servers. It is a single-tier driver that interfaces directly to the c-tree Plus API. The driver itself contains all the program logic necessary to handle requests from a front-end application including an SQL interpreter. The new release also offers full read and write capabilities, support for multiple communication protocols, and additional data-alignment options.

FairCom Corp.

4006 Broadway

Columbia, MO 65203

573-445-6833

http://www.faircom.com/

Smithware is shipping SupportAbility for Btrieve, a customizable configuration diagnostic and support tool designed to be incorporated into distributed applications. The tool uses configuration scripts to check the configuration of installed component files. Configuration scripts contain information about the program's components, which go together to make up a correctly configured application. These scripts let you detect, report, and resolve software configuration problems in a matter of minutes, thus reducing customer downtime and saving technical support personnel time.

Smithware Inc.

2416 Hillsboro Road, Suite 201

Nashville, TN 37212

615-386-3100

http://www.smithware.com/

Sun has announced a Tcl/Tk plug-in module for Netscape Navigator 3.0. The plug-in makes it possible to develop small- and medium-sized Internet applications using Tcl/Tk and view those applications via the World Wide Web. The plug-in complements Java as a means for rapidly scripting smaller applications and interfaces.

Sun Microsystems

2550 Garcia Avenue

Mountain View, CA 94043

415-786-4395

http://www.sun.com/

Phar Lap Software has announced a web server for embedded devices. Based on Phar Lap's Embedded Web Technology, which includes the real-time ETS kernel for embedded development, TCP/IP support, and an HTML-On-The-Fly package, the server provides you with the ability to make embedded devices universally accessible via the Web from any PC or workstation with a web browser.

Phar Lap Software

60 Aberdeen Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

617-661-1510

http://www.pharlap.com/

EBS/EBSNet is offering RTIP embedded TCP/IP network software, a portable TCP/IP implementation for embedded systems. RT-IP provides hooks to port to the target hardware and operating system. It supports MIPs, PowerPC, 68000, and Intel processors. It also supports several commercial and proprietary operating systems including Nucleus, AMX, CMX, SMX, Phar Lap, RTEMs, Embedded DOS, CTASK, and RTKernel. RT-IP is royalty free.

EBS/EBSnet

191 Main Street

P.O. Box 873

Groton, MA 01450

508-448-9340

http://www.etcbin.com/

Island Way has announced TeamWay, a project collaboration package for workgroups. A client-server application, TeamWay makes it easy for team members to track personal responsibilities across projects, as well as manage non-project obligations. When projects are defined, the scheduling of all component tasks is based on each team member's existing constraints. This eliminates ambiguities and ensures that each individual has time available for each assigned task. As changes occur anywhere in the project, everyone involved is updated immediately and remains in sync. TeamWay also provides flexibility in selecting planning algorithms, display filters, and graphical reports. The server is available for Windows NT, Windows for Workgroups, and several UNIX platforms. Clients are available for Windows 3.1/NT/95, and several UNIX platforms.

Island Way

20 Woodfield Road

Wellesley, MA 02181

617-235-6740

http://www.islandway.com/

The IBM Salutation Manager has been enhanced to support Version 2 of the Salutation Architecture, a network interface specification that sharply increases the interoperability of intelligent peripherals, office machines, applications, and services. The Salutation Manager helps developers build devices, services, and applications that interoperate in ways not otherwise possible. A networked user, for example, can broadcast a query in order to locate a particular network resource such as a color copier or a printer with a legal-size paper tray. The Salutation Architecture is independent of network transport, hardware platform, and operating-system software.

The Salutation Consortium

817-962-3146

http://www.salutation.org/

Pure Software has announced Purify for Windows NT. Purify automatically pinpoints run-time errors and memory leaks throughout C and C++ applications, including ActiveX controls, OLE components, and third-party DLLs and libraries that are the building blocks of 32-bit Windows applications. Purify is based on a patented technology called Object Code Insertion (OCI). Because OCI does not require access to source code, Purify can locate errors throughout the ever-widening range of third-party components with which many Windows applications are built. With Purify, you can collect run-time data and pinpoint the exact origin of a bug. The program also identifies where memory is not accessible through any pointer in the program.

Pure Software

1309 South Mary Avenue

Sunnyvale, CA 94087

408-720-1600

http://www.pure.com/

Intersolv and Visigenic Software have announced an agreement to standardize ODBC database application connectivity through the joint delivery of a common, cross-platform ODBC 3.0 driver manager. Under terms of the joint porting and distribution agreement, Visigenic will license to Intersolv the core components of Visigenic's proprietary ODBC SDK, under license from Microsoft, to port source code for the development of a single ODBC 3.0 driver manager. Upon release of ODBC 3.0 from Microsoft, Visigenic and Intersolv will deliver a single ODBC driver manager, based on the Microsoft ODBC 3.0 driver manager source code. Ports of the ODBC 3.0 SDK for all major platforms, including UNIX, Macintosh, and OS/2 will be immediately available from both Visigenic and Intersolv.

Visigenic Software Inc.

951 Mariners Island Boulevard., Suite 460

San Mateo, CA 94404

415-286-1900

http://www.visigenic.com/

Rational Software announced that Hewlett-Packard is collaborating with Rational to produce the Unified Modeling Language (UML), a graphical object-modeling language developed at Rational. Microsoft has also announced support for the proposal. The companies plan to submit the UML as a joint proposal on standard object models and notation to the Object Management Group (OMG) in response to the OMG's recently issued Object Analysis and Design Request for Proposal. The joint proposal will be presented to the OMG at the end of this year for consideration as a standard.

Rational Software

2800 San Tomas Expressway

Santa Clara, CA 95051-0951

408-496-3600

http://www.rational.com/

Sense8 is now shipping Release 6 of its WorldToolKit of visual simulation and virtual reality software. WorldToolKit R6 offers a broadened range of nodes that can be hierarchically arranged in the scene graph. Each node represents a part of the simulation, and while scene graphs are constructed node-by-node, they are done so in WorldToolKit through the use of high-level API calls. Loading a VRML file from the Internet into a scene graph, for instance, only requires a single function call. These function calls allow users to prototype, develop, and reconfigure applications as needed. A special version of WorldToolKit Release 6 provides support for rendering to multiple graphics pipes or screens.

Sense8 Corp.

100 Shoreline Highway, Suite 282

Mill Valley, CA 94941

415-331-6318

http://www.sense8.com/

Fort Software has announced general availability of the Fort Web SDK, which provides access to enterprise applications from the Internet's World Wide Web. The Fort Web SDK is an optional product that complements the Fort Application Environment, enabling Netscape's Navigator and other web browsers to function as Fort clients with full access to Fort application servers that can support up to thousands of concurrent users. Forte is an integrated set of object-oriented tools for building, deploying, and managing high-end client/server applications.

Fort Software Inc.

1800 Harrison Street

Oakland, CA 94612

510-869-3400

http://www.forte.com/