Dr. Dobb's Journal June 2002
Demeanor, from WiseOwl, is a code obfuscator for .NET applications. It secures .NET applications by making them difficult to reverse engineer. Demeanor also removes unnecessary information and obfuscates and shortens required symbolic names for loading/downloading of .NET assemblies. There are two versions of Demeanor available: Demeanor .NET Lite, which performs symbol and metadata obfuscation, and Demeanor .NET Enterprise, which performs these functions as well as control-flow obfuscation.
WiseOwl
1771 La Plaza Drive
San Marcos, CA 92069
760-471-9833
http://www.wiseowl.com/
Pramati Technologies has released Pramati Server 3.0, the first application server to achieve J2EE 1.3 compatibility, and Pramati Studio 3.0, an integrated development environment for building J2EE applications. Pramati Server 3.0 carries a high-performance EJB 2.0 container and provides load balancing, failover, and hot deployment, as well as remote monitoring via web-based consoles. It also works with any J2EE-compliant development environment. Pramati Studio 3.0 is application server agnostic and supports direct deployment to several J2EE-compliant app servers, including those from BEA and Oracle. It also features a migration tool so that code created with it can be moved from one application server to another.
Pramati Technologies
2033 Gateway Place, Suite 500
San Jose, CA 95110
408-435-2700
http://www.pramati.com/
Sourcefire has announced the availability of the OpenSnort Management Console (OMC), an appliance-based sensor management and intrusion detection analysis tool. The OMC centralizes the security environment of network devices, distributed enterprise sensor deployments, and large service provider environments. The OMC allows management from a central point on the network, and its web-based GUI provides browser-independent local or remote access. Other features include: multisensor configuration management and data aggression, high-performance data management, encrypted communications with sensors, forensic data analysis, network configuration, signature management and creations, and real-time alert configuration.
Sourcefire Inc.
7095 Samuel Morse Drive, Suite 100
Columbia, MD 21045
410-290-0024
http://www.sourcefire.com/
Transvirtual Technologies has released XOE, an application framework built on XML and Java technologies. It is a high-productivity, standards-based, multilanguage application execution environment that helps you build and distribute XML web services and applications that scale easily, using the language of your choice. XOE's online/offline integration feature provides application operation without a direct connection to the application server; and XOE Developer Studio provides a complete development environment for building and deploying XOE-based solutions. XOE extends Transvirtual Technologies products to Windows XP, all J2SE Virtual Machines, and Linux.
Transvirtual Technologies Inc.
188 The Embarcadero, 8th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
415-243-4055
http://www.transvirtual.com/
The New England Java Users Group (NEJUG) has released the book Coding Standards for Java. The authors of the book are the NEJUG's Java Coding Styles and Guidelines Special Interest Group. This book is intended for Java developers seeking guidance in establishing standards in their own work, for their project team, and in their entire organization. The book is freely available at http://www.nejug.org/standards.htm.
The New England Java Users Group
Apex Consulting Group Inc.
23 Walkers Brook Drive, Suite 23
Reading, MA 01867
http://www.nejug.org/
HiT Software has released winAllora Xpress, a tool for importing/exporting XML data into/from relational databases without programming. WinAllora Xpress is a Windows application used to define relationships between XML document elements and relational database columns. An expression editor also allows detailed data conversion during transformations. Once winAllora Xpress mapping is in place, import/export XML-RDB transformations are a one-button operation. WinAllora Xpress supports industry standards including OLEDB/ODBC SQL middleware, W3C DTD and XML schema, and MSXML.
HiT Software Inc.
4020 Moorpark Avenue, Suite 100
San Jose, CA 95117
408-345-4001
http://www.hitsw.com/
InCert Software has announced the availability of its Halo Application Fault Management Monitor, which monitors, pinpoints, reports on, and provides a source-code level, root-cause diagnosis of software failures in deployed applications. Halo watches over both proprietary and third-party applications, and sends an alert to a central operations console detailing the exact machine, application, module, and even line of source code responsible for the failure. Halo works as a standalone application or in conjunction with other systems management products. The software supports Windows, Solaris, and Java applications.
InCert Software Corp.
One Kendall Square, Building 1400W
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-621-8080
http://www.incert.com/
Sagantec has released SiFix, a tool for automatic correction and optimization of physical designs. With SiFix, you can implement layouts using simple rules and rely on SiFix to handle the additional complex rules. You can also begin physical implementation before final design rules values are fully available. SiFix scans through layout files, using quality and reliability rules to adjust width, spacing, and increase strapping in selected nets and segments. When it finds errors and hazards, it fixes them locally, leaving the rest of the physical design untouched. SiFix works equally well on full-custom layout or cell-based designs. It is available on Solaris, HP-UX, and Linux platforms.
Sagantec
46485 Landing Parkway
Fremont, CA 94538
510-360-5200
http://www.sagantec.com/
TogetherSoft has announced Together ControlCenter 6.0, a model-build-deploy platform for end-to-end software development. The new release supports J2EE 1.3, which brings increased functionality for developing and deploying enterprise-level web services. It includes features needed to build enterprise-level applications, and provides integration links to leading databases and applications servers. Together ControlCenter supports C++, Java, and Microsoft-implemented languages, and gives you a single platform, with a consistent but customizable interface, for work throughout the software development cycle.
TogetherSoft Corp.
900 Main Campus Drive, Suite 500
Raleigh, NC 27606
919-833-5550
http://www.togethersoft.com/
TurboCache, from OptiView Technologies, is a web content and image optimization tool focused on reducing image bulk, caching, and accelerating all web traffic. TurboCache is a transparent caching proxy server that optimizes text and images, speeding page downloads across any connection including corporate LANs, modems, and wireless devices. It adds content optimization by reducing the byte size of content prior to caching. TurboCache optimizes web content without visually degrading images or text, in addition to caching traffic results to eliminate reoptimization and reduce latency.
OptiView Technologies
1301 Moran Road, Suite 102
Dulles, VA 20166
703-450-8809
http://www.optiview.com/
Falch.net has released Version 2.6 of Falch.net DeveloperStudio for Palm OS. This database designer consists of three integrated parts: a Visual Database Designer, which lets you edit database files in a simple way, and lets you easily insert or remove tables in the database; a database API, which extends the efficiency of memory usage allocations; and a source-code generator, which creates a set of source files that represents your database as defined with the Visual Database Editor.
Falch.net AS
Rosenkrantz gt. 20
N-1060 Oslo, Norway
47-22-42-44-85
http://www.falch.net/
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