2100 Forum Boulevard, Suite C

Columbia, MO 65203-5456

800-234-8180

http://www.faircom.com/

Excelon Stylus, an Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) editing tool, has been released by Object Design. Excelon Stylus enables XML to be transformed into HTML for presentation on the Web, and speeds the development of XSL stylesheets by integrating XML data, stylesheet editing, and web page preview in a single visual environment. eXcelon Stylus is available both as a standalone tool and as part of the tool set for ODI's Excelon 2.0 e-business application development environment, which is a dynamically extensible platform for building and deploying XML-based eBusiness applications. Pricing for the Excelon Stylus starts at $199.00.

Object Design

25 Mall Road

Burlington, MA 01803

800-962-9620

http://www.odi.com/

Indigo Rose has announced Setup Factory 5.0, a visual development tool for software deployment and installation via diskette, CD-ROM, LAN, and the Internet. Setup Factory offers a solution for creating flexible installation systems without the need to learn a proprietary scripting language. There is built-in support for the most common development systems such as Visual Basic 5 and 6, ODBC, BDE, ADO, DAO, OLE, RDS, MSJET, Adobe Acrobat, and QuickTime. The new Screen Manager and Dialog Gallery offer control over the look-and-feel of installation. Premade dialogs such as static and scrollable text, check boxes, radio buttons, edit boxes, and file browsers can be customized with graphics and rich text features such as multiple fonts, colors, styles, and sizes. Setup Factory is available for $295.00.

Indigo Rose Corp.

123 Bannatyne Avenue, Suite 230

Winnipeg, MB

Canada R3B 0R3

800-665-9668

http://www.indigorose.com/

The Apache Software Foundation has announced the formation of the xml.apache .org Project, an Open Source project for XML and XSL tools. The project's purpose is to build a solid reference suite of applications and libraries for managing XML. The xml.apache.org project includes collaborators such as Bowstreet, DataChannel, Exoffice, IBM, Lotus Development, and Sun Microsystems -- all of which are contributing technologies to the project. These technologies include XML4J and XML4C parsers from IBM; Sun's Java Project X and XHTML parsers; Lotus XSL; Xpages from DataChannel; the FOP XSL formatter from James Tauber of Bowstreet; Cocoon from Stefano Mazzocchi and the Java-Apache community; and OpenXML and XSL:P, both from Exoffice. The project code and participation guidelines are available at the Foundation's web site.

The Apache Software Foundation

1901 Munsey Drive

Forest Hill, MD 21050-2747

http://xml.apache.org/

Merant has announced PVCS Professional 3.5 featuring advanced issue and change management capabilities. PVCS Professional includes a new conversion program to ease migration to Merant PVCS for e-business application development and web teams. PVCS Professional is a complete suite for organizing, managing, and automating application and web development, including PVCS Version Manager for version control, PVCS Tracker for issues and change management, and PVCS Configuration Builder for build management. PVCS Professional 3.5 delivers PVCS Metrics, which allows users to generate, schedule, and post project metrics to defined web pages; change history queries that create queries based on past events; and conditional notification, which enables automatic e-mail or In-Tray notification based on the specific field values of a record. PVCS Professional 3.5 is available for $1199.00.

Merant

701 E. Middlefield Road

Mountain View, CA 94043

650-938-3700

http://www.merant.com/

Sun Microsystems has unveiled Java Blend 2.0 and Java Message Queue 1.0. Two Java tools that provide services to help reduce the cost and time required to create Internet applications. Java Blend 2.0 software is a data access tool that connects distributed applications with multiple sources of data. Java Blend includes transparent persistence capabilities that allow developers access to tables, attributes, and rows, without writing any JDBC or SQL code. It maps relational database tables into Java objects and eliminates impedance mismatch, the gap that occurs when mapping 2D data with Java objects. Java Message Queue 1.0 enterprise messaging software provides a standard way for business applications to communicate and exchange information. Its software allows developers to focus on creating business logic, and is a full production implementation of the open-standard Java Message Service 1.0.1 specification, which provides improvements over traditional process-oriented messaging systems. Java Message Queue software intelligently routes messages throughout the network for efficient bandwidth usage.

Sun Microsystems Inc.

901 San Antonio Road

Palo Alto, CA 94303

800-555-9786

http://www.sun.com/

Tashcom Software has introduced ASPEdit 2.05 for Windows, an Active Server Pages, scripting, and HTML editor. ASPEdit provides full support for Visual Basic script, its code highlighter gives you a clear view on your code, and shows all HTML, ASP, and VBScript colorized so you can see what is code and what is text. ASPEdit also supports the WebTV tags, ColdFusion, and common SQL commands. ASPEdit is designed to run under Windows 95/98/NT. ASPEdit 2.05 costs $50.00 for a single user license; site licenses are available.

Tashcom Software

46 Highstreet, Hauxton

CB2 5HW, Cambridgeshire UK

01223-873182

http://www.aspedit.co.uk/

Rebol Technologies has introduced Rebol/ Command 1.0, the platform-independent Internet communications language, with expanded functions and features for corporate enterprise applications. Applications developed with Rebol/Command 1.0 can be integrated with platform-specific libraries, tools, applications, and databases, as part of e-commerce, e-mail, or site management messaging services. A complement or alternative to languages such as Java, C++, and Perl, Rebol provides a common data format for information exchange with Internet applications. Rebol/Core, the first version, is available as a free download. Expanded features of Rebol/Command 1.0 include support for ODBC standard for database connectivity; support for calling third-party applications, platform-specific systems, or shell commands from within Rebol scripts; support for calling third-party DLLs and shared objects; and improved trace and debug capabilities.

Rebol Technologies

P.O. Box 1510

Ukiah, CA 95482

707-467-8000

http://www.rebol.com/

ILOG has unveiled the ILOG JViews Component Suite for creating e-cockpits -- windows into the supply chain that enable web-based collaboration of supply chain trading partners. This release combines JavaBeans, class libraries, and editor applications. The features include an enhanced graph layout package for visualization of work and process flows. Also new is a Gantt chart module for sharing resource-oriented and task-oriented scheduling over the Web. The JViews Components Suite also includes an enhanced map display engine, connection to different back-end map servers, and Composer, a custom graphics editor. JViews runs on any Java platform and web browser that supports JDK 1.1, including Netscape Communicator and Microsoft Explorer. Pricing starts at $6500.00

ILOG

1080 Linda Vista Avenue

Mountain View, CA 94043

650-567-8000

http://www.ilog.com/

Zentropix has announced its Remote Kernel Module Step and Trace stub for GDB and the Remote Run-time Data Debugger (R2D2) as open-source developments under the Gnu Public License. These tools are for real-time Linux development. The R2D2 debugger addresses later development stages during which it is critical that the application is not stopped or stepped during the debug. This debugger provides nonintrusive, run-time symbolic access to parameters within user space and within the kernel and its modules, while the application continues to execute at its normal iteration. This paradigm increases the speed and simplicity of application tuning, integration, and verification. Both products are available on Zentropix's validated RealTime Linux installation CD, Version 2.2.

Zentropic Computing, LLC (Zentropix)

441-B Carlisle Drive

Herndon, VA 20170

703-471-6690

http://www.zentropix.com/

The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) and The Portland Group (PGI) have released an optimized version of the NAG Fortran Library for Intel processor-based Linux workstations, servers, and clusters. Mark 18 of the NAG Fortran Library for Linux is built and validated using PGI's Linux compiler, and is fully interoperable with the latest release of PGI's Fortran, C, and C++ compilers, and tools for Linux. The NAG Library comprises reusable software components packaged to provide application developers with mathematical and statistical functionality. The Portland Group has also announced PGI Workstation 3.1, the latest release of PGI's suite of parallel Fortran, C, and C++ compilers and tools. PGI Workstation 3.1 is supported on Intel processor-based workstations, servers, and clusters running the Linux, Solaris86, and NT operating systems. Pricing starts at $299.00 for F77-only or C/C++-only packages, and $499.00 for full F90/HPF packages.

The Numerical Algorithms Group

1400 Opus Place, Suite 200

Downers Grove, IL 60515

630-971-2337

http://www.nag.com/

The Portland Group Inc.

9150 SW Pioneer Court, Suite H

Wilsonville, OR 97070

503-682-2806

http://www.pgroup.com/

TestComposer, from CS Verilog, is a new module from the ObjectGeode product line. Test objectives can either be provided by the user, with respect to functional requirements, or computed by TestComposer, with respect to structural coverage. Test suites are currently generated either in Message Sequence Charts (MSC) or in Tree and Tabular Combined Notation (TTCN) format. ObjectGeode is a toolset dedicated to analysis, design, verification, and validation through simulation, code generation, and testing of real-time and distributed applications. ObjectGeode supports a coherent integration of complementary object-oriented approaches based on standards: UML, SDL, and MSC. ObjectGeode provides graphical editors, a powerful interactive, random, and exhaustive simulator, a C/C++ code generator targeting popular real-time OSs such as VxWorks, VRTX, pSOS+, Win32, Posix, and Chorus, and network protocols such as TCP/IP, and a design-level debugger. ObjectGEODE is also integrated with products such as QSS's DOORS, WindRiver's Tornado, and Rational's Rose and ClearCase products.

CS Verilog

155 Villa Avenue, #7

Los Gatos, CA 95032

408-395-6367

http://www.csverilog.com/

Frontline Systems has shipped Version 3.5 of its Small-Scale Solver DLL software, aimed at application developers seeking to add optimization capabilities to their software. Version 3.5 of the Solver DLL line introduces features such as reentrant operation for multithreaded intranet and web server applications, an Evolutionary Solver engine, and an increase in capacity for linear and quadratic problems from 800 to 2000 variables. The Solver DLL products bring to user-written applications the optimization engines that form the core of the Microsoft Excel Solver, the Quattro Pro Optimizer, and the Lotus 1-2-3 Solver. Applications can use the Solver DLLs to automatically find the best way to allocate scarce resources such as money, raw materials, equipment, or people time, to maximize profits or minimize costs while operating within certain limits. A free evaluation version of the Solver DLL 3.5 is now available for download from Frontline Systems' web site.

Frontline Systems Inc.

P.O. Box 4288

Incline Village, NV 89450

775-831-0300

http://www.frontsys.com/

Symantec has released the VisualCafé 4 development environment for Java. This version of VisualCafé offers an adaptable, integrated application environment and takes full advantage of the new Java 2 platform from Sun, including multiserver Enterprise JavaBeans support, Java ServerPages, servlets, CORBA, and multitier distributed debugging. All three versions of the VisualCafé 4 family -- Standard, Expert, and Enterprise -- include the Lightning JIT4 compiler, which provides Java 2 execution.

Symantec Corp.

10201 Torre Avenue

Cupertino, CA 95014

888-822-3409

http://www.symantec.com/

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