Dr. Dobb's Journal April 2002
Borland Software has released Borland Platform for J2EE, which consists of Enterprise Studio for Java, JBuilder 6 in Enterprise, and Enterprise. The Borland Enterprise Studio for Java features JBuilder; Rational Rose, a modeling environment; and best practices methodology through Rational Unified Process. The Studio is also available with Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev 4. Borland JBuilder 6 features a new way to create EJB components through point-and-click visual development. It also integrates and supports features of extreme programming such as refactoring, unit testing, and automated Javadoc creation. The Borland Enterprise Server is now available in three editions: Web, VisiBroker, and AppServer edition.
Borland Software Corp.
Scotts Valley, CA 95066-3249
831-431-1000
http://www.borland.com/
LIFT from UsableNet is an add-on product for developing accessible and usable web sites within Macromedia Dreamweaver 4 and Dreamweaver UltraDev 4. This software includes Accessibility Suite, a solution including fix wizards, monitoring, reporting, and new usability options. Some new features include: customizable guidelines, the ability to automate the fixing process, elimination of manual evaluation of HTML, and the ability to review the development and design in real time.
UsableNet Inc.
83 Mercer Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012
212-965-5388
http://www.usablenet.com/
Sonic Software has announced SonicXQ, a tool for web services. It provides XML processing support and integration on a secure platform. SonicXQ is fully standards based, provides any-to-any application connectivity, and provides fully secure HTTP/S and SOAP support as well as WSDL generation for UDDI registries. It also has a message-based architecture that routes and transforms critical business information between services according to configurable itineraries, and supports JCA adapters to transport common application connectivity to web services through SOAP.
Sonic Software Corp.
14 Oak Park
Bedford, MA 01730
781-999-7000
http://www.sonicsoftware.com/
Sybase PowerDesigner 9.0 is a modeling and design tool that features business process modeling capabilities, enhanced UML-based object modeling, and supports both traditional and emerging modeling techniques within one environment. Some new features include: the ability to generate the database schema through true bilevel (conceptual and physical) relational database modeling; completion of analysis and design using standard UML techniques (use case, activity, sequence, class, and component diagrams); automatic generation and reverse engineering of code for environments such as Java, XML, web services, C++, PowerBuilder, and Visual Basic; and an enterprise-class repository that allows easy viewing and sharing of models.
Sybase Inc.
5000 Hacienda Drive
Dublin, CA 94568
925-236-5000
http://www.sybase.com/
Extended Systems has announced the release of XTNDConnect Mobile Objects, a mobile application SDK. New features include: an end-to-end mobile SDK; Streamlined Security based on Certicom Elliptical Curve technology; state or stateless connection models; live database access with store and forward architecture for unstable network; distributed-object architecture; SOAP access to server objects; client application development support for AppForge and CodeWarrior; and support for PocketPC, Palm, and Windows devices.
Extended Systems
5777 North Meeker Avenue
Boise, ID 83713
208-322-7800
http://www.extendedsystems.com/
Telelogic has released DocExpress 3.0.1, an automated tool for engineering documents that provides support for XML data files. Features include improved support for Telelogic DOORS, allowing text, pictures, tables, and embedded OLE objects from DOORS to be obtained by DocExpress; enhanced support for Adobe FrameMaker; a link to Telelogic CM Synergy; and support for Microsoft Word XP. DocExpress 3.0.1 is available on Windows NT/98/2000.
Telelogic AB
P.O. Box 4128, Kungsgatan 6
SE-203 12 Malmö
Sweden
46-40-650-0000
http://www.telelogic.com/
Quest Software has announced Quest Central for Oracle, which combines database management tools into one product. It ensures the database is being managed from one central console, as opposed to multiple point products, and because all database management tasks are performed within one tool, the database administrator is immediately notified of impending problems. Quest Central for Oracle allows the use of one tool to address all daily tasks including database administration, storage management, performance management, and ensuring high availability.
Quest Software Inc.
8001 Irvine Center Drive
Irvine, CA 92618
949-754-8000
http://www.quest.com/
X-Hive has released X-Hive/DB 2.0, a native XML database. Features include document versioning, which is the ability to store multiple versions of the same document without sacrificing the database's speed and performance; binary object (BLOB) support, which allows binary large objects (such as movie files, images, or Microsoft Office files) to be stored in X-Hive/DB; and full-text searching, which is accomplished via integration with Lucene, the open-source full-text index engine from Apache. Prior support for node indexes (Context Conditioned Indexing) and element name indexes has been expanded to include library indexes, ID attributes, and full-text indexes.
X-Hive Corp.
Van Vollenhovenstraat 3
3016 BE Rotterdam
The Netherlands
31-0-10-710-8600
http://www.x-hive.com/
Waterloo Maple has released Maplets, an add-on package for Maple 7 that lets you create and customize your own GUI for Maple. It can be used to create custom Maple calculators, interfaces to Maple packages, queries, and messages. With Maplets, users can present Maple applications through slider bars, buttons, text areas, pull-down menus, and other GUI elements, to other users who do not use Maple. Maplets invoke GUI elements for Sun's Java Swing package, but no Java programming knowledge is necessary to develop a Maplet interface.
Waterloo Maple Inc.
57 Erb Street West
Waterloo, ON
Canada N2L 6C2
519-747-2373
http://www.maplesoft.com/
Langner Communications has released LUCA 5.2, a driver library for PLC control now available for Linux and all Windows platforms. LUCA 5.2 offers revised event handling routines. Every event handling routine of the object-oriented LUCA interface (C++ classes, Delphi VCL components, ActiveX controls) now delivers the related data — such as receipt information — as a parameter.
Langner Communications AG
Eulenkrugstrasse 27
D-22359 Hamburg
Germany
49-0-40-6090-110
http://www.langner.com/english/
Metrowerks has released the CodeWarrior IDE for the MIPS-based RISC embedded systems architecture. New in Version 4.0 of CodeWarrior IDE is support for the MIPS32 Instruction Set Architecture (ISA). In addition, it provides you with usability features unique to MIPS tools including drag-and-drop editing and file management. The tools also support IDT 32300 RISCore, LSI EZ4103, NEC Vr5432, and PMC-Sierra RM700. CodeWarrior tools can be used to debug code via a JTAG connection such as EJTAG 2.5. CodeWarrior IDE 4.0 is hosted on Windows 98, 2000, and NT 4.0.
Metrowerks Inc.
9801 Metric Boulevard, Bldg. 100
Austin, TX 78758
800-377-5416
http://www.metrowerks.com/
Thought has announced the availability of CocoBase Enterprise O/R 4.0 for J2EE and J2SE. The 4.0 release adds support for EJB 2.0, CMP Entity Bean relationships, local and remote Bean interfaces, extended Transparent Persistence support for local and distributed environments, Generic Session Beans, and Tomcat 4.0 JSP code templates. Also included are integrations for updates of HP, IBM, Oracle, and Sybase's application servers along with XMI 1.1 support for Rational Rose, Power Designer, and Together Control Center modeling tools.
Thought Inc.
657 Mission Street, Suite 202
San Francisco, CA 94105
415-836-9199
http://www.thoughtinc.com/
DDJ