Dr. Dobb's Journal September 1997
TechBridge Technology has introduced RIO Wizard for C++ 2.0, a C++ code generator for client/server applications. RIO Wizard works inside Microsoft's Visual Studio, and produces applications in C++ code using the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC). Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) and Microsoft's Data Access Objects (DAO) are supported for accessing databases. Using wizards and a visual builder, Visual C++ programmers can create client/server applications complete with graphical user interfaces (GUIs) without leaving the development environment. RIO Wizard also automates the process of packaging applications into ActiveX controls that can either be used as components of a complex software system or embedded in HTML documents. RIO Wizard generates full 32-bit applications. It requires Windows 95/NT and Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0.
TechBridge Technology Corp.
275 Renfrew Drive, Suite 103
Markham, ON
Canada L3R 0C8
905-513-7800
http://www.tbridge.com/
Softlab Enabling Technologies' Visual Enabler is a software configuration management system that integrates with Microsoft Visual Studio and other development environments. Visual Enabler is repository-based and stresses ease of use, including a feature that allows any developer to be notified of specific types of changes.
Softlab Enabling Technologies
1000 Abernathy Road, Suite 1000
Atlanta, GA 30328-5613
770-668-8811
http://www.softlabna.com/
Aonix has announced StP/UML, an implementation of UML 1.0 that is incorporated with Aonix's Software through Pictures (StP) development environment. StP/UML permits legacy objects in other StP repositories to be used in UML programs, regardless of their original notation. StP/UML is available for UNIX and NT. Four software modules are available: modeling, reverse engineering, code-generation and documentation, with prices beginning at $2500.00 for the modeling module on Windows NT, and $4150.00 for the modeling module on UNIX.
Aonix
595 Market Street, 10th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
415-543-0900
http://www.aonix.com/
Apiary's Developer Suite for NetWare lets you quickly build Novell NetWare client applications for Windows. The Developer Suite provides six 32-bit ActiveX controls, and extensive support for Visual Basic and Delphi.
Apiary Inc.
500 E. Markham, Suite 310
Little Rock, AR 72201
501-376-3600
http://www.apiary.com/
Popkin Software & Systems has released SA/Data Architect 4.5, System Architect 4, and SA/Object Architect 4. SA/Data Architect is a data modeling tool for data warehousing with a simple user interface. The latest version has HTML generation capabilities. System Architect 4, the Popkin enterprise development tool, emphasizes an easy-to-learn and easy-to-use interface. SA 4's multiuser, shared repository integrates object-oriented modeling with data modeling and structured analysis and design information. The new SA/Object Architect 4 includes automatic generation of logical data models from object-oriented class models. Object Architect generates C++, Smalltalk, Java, CORBA IDL, and HTML. Object Architect offers point-and-click generation of Visual Basic and Delphi forms, and PowerBuilder data windows from the data model.
Popkin Software & Systems Inc.
11 Park Place
New York, NY 10007-2801
212-571-3434
http://www.popkin.com/
MCSI's PC-560 is a complete PC/AT compatible computer on a half-size 7×4-inch plug-in card. It includes a full collection of PC I/O ports, including two IDE ports and built-in video with external monitor and flat-panel connectors. It accepts Pentium, AMD 5k86, and Cyrix 6x86 processors of up to 200 MHz, it supports up to 128 MB of memory, and requires only a single 5v supply.
MCSI
2598G Fortune Way
Vista, CA 92083
760-598-2177
http://www.mcsi1.com/
mcsi@mcsi1.com
Select Software Tools announced Select Component Manager, a tool that allows you to catalog, manage, and retrieve enterprise software components. The product extends the functionality of Microsoft's repository and is available immediately at no cost on Select's web site.
Select Software Tools
19600 Fairchild, Suite 350
Irvine, CA 92612
714-477-4100
http://www.selectst.com/
South Wind Design has released its SupportAbility help-desk software. Using any Internet, Intranet, or Extranet connection, SupportAbility extracts the hardware, software, and firmware information that technical support analysts need to troubleshoot a user's computer, automatically, then shoots the trouble ticket to the help desk. SupportAbility provides an ActiveX control for use with Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and a plug-in for Netscape Navigator and Netscape Communicator. SupportAbility is a server-based application that requires Windows NT. You can license it from South Wind for $5995.00 annually, or use it as a pay-for-use service hosted by South Wind that routes help-desk submissions using the Internet or the SupportAbility network for $0.79 per help-desk submission.
South Wind Design Inc.
220 E. Huron Street, Suite 515
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
313-213-0118
http://www.swdi.com/
ForeFront is shipping its ForeHelp Premier Universal Help Authoring Suite. ForeHelp Premier includes a set of ForeFront's help authoring tools, including ForeHelp for developing Windows help files, ForeHTML for converting between WinHelp and HTML web pages, and OLE for Help, which allows embedded or linked documents, spreadsheets and graphs to be displayed and edited in help files. Other WinHelp tools included are ForeFront Help Buttons to create stylized buttons and Help Browser for ForeHelp to include WinHelp 95-type contents, multiple topic print, and full-text search capabilities in Windows 3.1 help files. ForeHelp Premier also includes ForeVB, a Visual Basic add-in for linking context-sensitive help to Visual Basic applications. The ForeHelp Premier Universal Help Authoring Suite costs $699.00.
ForeFront Inc.
4710 Table Mesa Drive, Suite B
Boulder, CO 80303
303-499- 9181
http://www.ff.com/
Soundcode has released scCryptoEngine, scEnvelope, and scSignature security toolkits. scCryptoEngine is a C++ class library that supports several algorithms for symmetric encryption, public key encryption, hashing, and digital signatures. scEnvelope and scSignature are separate modules for encryption and digital signature, respectively.
Soundcode Inc.
11613 124th Avenue Northeast, Suite G-317
Kirkland, WA 98034
206-828-9155
http://www.soundcode.com/
Neuron Data announced Elements for Java, a component framework for creating enterprise applications in Java. Elements for Java consists of two components: Presenter/J, a GUI toolkit, and Advisor/J, a dynamic business rules engine. These JavaBeans components provide an interoperable framework that allows developers to leverage other tools, such as Microsoft Visual J++ or Symantec Visual Cafe. Presenter/J costs $495.00, while Advisor/J costs $6000.00.
Neuron Data also announced Version 2.1 of Elements for C and Elements for C++. Version 2.1 includes four new components: Elements Versioner, Elements Converter, Elements Messenger, and Elements Tester. Versioner provides file-level integration with Intersolv's PVCS Version Manager. Converter is a tool for migrating existing C or C++ code to Java. Messenger integrates a publish and subscribe messaging middleware for distributed applications with the Elements framework. Tester provides support for Mercury Interactive's WinRunner and Xrunner testing tools. The complete development environment starts at $15,995.00. Individual components can be purchased separately, with prices starting at $3100.00.
Neuron Data
1310 Villa Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
415-528-3450
http://www.neurondata.com/
Pinnacle Publishing has released Graphics Server 5.0, a Windows graphic toolkit that supports a wide variety of graph and chart types. It has a built-in end-user interface option to let users edit and save graphs. New features include web-image file output with automatic map file creation, date labels on x-axis, tilt and thickness controls for 3-D pie charts, additional box-whisker styles, missing data for overlay graphs, and more. Graphics Server 5.0 has VBX, OCX, and ActiveX support, and supports data binding with Visual Basic 5.0. It costs $439.00.
Pinnacle Publishing
PO Box 4620
Seattle, WA 98104
206-625-6900
http://www.pinpub.com/
Hewlett-Packard has introduced HP SoftBench OpenStudio, a development environment that allows software engineers to codevelop C++ applications for Windows 95/NT and HP-UX systems. OpenStudio offers simultaneous debugging sessions for HP-UX and Windows in two side-by-side views, the ability to create single-source-stream applications for HP-UX and Windows through a pull-down menu option, and the ability to develop or maintain existing HP-UX applications from a PC. OpenStudio is configured as a client and a server. The client works with Visual C++ 5.0. The server includes HP-UX C and C++ compilers and the runtime system of HP's implementation of CORBA. Licenses for the client and server start at $999.00.
Hewlett-Packard
3404 East Harmony Road
Fort Collins, CO 80525
970-229-3800
http://www.hp.com/
Oberon Software is offering an enhanced version of Oberon Prospero 1.5, an enterprise application integration tool. Prospero uses a visual programming environment with graphical building blocks representing applications and data sources. Users connect the building blocks to direct the flow of data and application control. Prospero applications can scale from simple data integration to sophisticated application automation. Prospero includes a set of system building blocks. Prospero 1.5 works on Windows 3.x/95/NT. The Standard Developer version costs $695.00, while the Professional Developer version sells for $2395.00. Deployed application licenses are available on a per-user basis. Specialized Building Blocks start at $99.00.
Prolific 3 is a server-based rapid-application development solution enterprise in Java from Prolifics. Prolifics 3 offers salability and performance improvements, and lets you build Java database applications, client/server, and three-tier partitioned applications. Prolifics 3 provides automatic fail-over Java deployment, where HTML is substituted when Java execution fails. Prolifics 3 is available for SunOS 4.x, Windows NT, and Solaris. The price for a five-user development system starts at $35,000.00.
Prolifics
116 John Street
New York, NY 10038
212-267-7722
http://www.prolifics.com/
Phantom Reality has announced PhantomDirect, a DirectX toolkit for Microsoft Visual Basic. PhantomDirect lets you create 3-D multimedia titles for Windows 95. PhantomDirect gives Visual Basic programmers access to all the functionality of DirectX. With PhantomDirect, the programmer can create an entire 3-D world or play multiple sound files simultaneously; or create a multiplayer game, or all of the above with a minimal amount of coding.
The toolkit contains many sample applications, including a multi-player maze game with sound and joystick support.
Phantom Reality Inc.
POBox 475
Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526
919-557-7882
http://www.phantomreality.com/
The Motion Factory is releasing its Motivate Intelligent Digital Actor System, a suite of tools for creating and deploying interactive games. Powered by research in robotics and real-time process control technology, Motivate helps you create rich, interactive, 3-D characters.
Intelligent Digital Actor technology integrates Real-time Motion Synthesis (which allows character motion to be generated on the fly, in response to a dynamically changing environment) and Dynamic Event-based Behavior Programming (a new paradigm for creating sophisticated game logic for those characters).
The complete system includes the Motivate Development Tools, the Motivate Runtime for interacting with game content, the Motivate Server for multiplayer network deployment, and the Motivate SDK for creating custom program extensions. At the heart of Motivate is the Digital Brain -- the reasoning engine embedded into every Intelligent Digital Actor. The Digital Brain is shared by all Digital Actors and is used in both the development tools and the run time to generate intelligent motion on the fly.
The Motion Factory
39300 Civic Center Drive, Suite 240
Fremont, CA 95438
510-505-5151
http://www.motion-factory.com/
Integrated Computer Solutions (ICS) has announced BX/Win SDK, a cross-platform solution for developers porting applications from UNIX to Windows. BX/Win SDK lets you port UNIX applications and applications built using ICS's BX PRO to Windows NT. The new tool incorporates DataFocus' NuTCRACKER.
By developing and maintaining a single source code, BX/Win SDK lets you preserve existing Motif/UNIX applications and staff expertise.
Integrated Computer Solutions Inc.
201 Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-621-0060
http://www.ics.com/
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