Dr. Dobb's Journal December 2002
RDM XML, from Birdstep Technology, is a native XML database that supports both Java and C++. The company also released RDM Mobile 2.0, an embeddable database that includes native C++ and Java interfaces. Both tools offer database functionality in a small footprint using an architecture based on an object-oriented internal structure and COM-based programming interfaces. The architecture is optimized to handle hierarchical data. RDM XML provides interfaces such as SAX, DOM, and XPATH for storage and retrieval of data, and implements the DOM/XPATH integration standard. Features of RDM Mobile 2.0 include the regular expressions tool for evaluating arbitrary expressions and matching string attribute data, and casual attributes for unstructured XML documents. Both databases are deployed with the developer's applications.
Birdstep Technology Inc.
2101 4th Avenue, Suite 2000
Seattle, WA 98121
206-748-5353
http://www.birdstep.com/
CHARONWARE s.r.o. has released Version 2.10 of CASE Studio 2, a database designing tool for various database systems. This release adds full support of the Oracle 9 and MySQL 4 databases and includes new enhancements in reverse engineering and script generation from MS SQL, Oracle 8, PostgreSQL, Sybase ASE, IBM DB2, as well as fixing bugs. New features in CASE Studio 2 Version 2.10 include enhanced support for Microsoft SQL 2000, Sybase ASE 12.5, IBM DB2, and PostgreSQL; user types and dictionaries; text objects; and even more detailed HTML reports.
CHARONWARE s.r.o.
Perunova 14
720 00 Ostrava
Czech Republic
420-69-6723541
http://www.casestudio.com/
Altova has released an XML product line consisting of XMLSPY 5; AUTHENTIC 5, a standards-based, browser-enabled document editor; and STYLEVISION 5, an XML tool that provides conversion utilities for migrations of HTML web sites to XML-based ones. XMLSPY 5 includes a built-in XSLT processor and XSLT debugger, and has an HTML Importer that lets you perform HTML-to-XML migration through a drag-and-drop interface. An WSDL editor lets you edit, visualize, and validate any WSDL file, and includes the integration with XMLSPY's schema editor for the editing of data-types and generation of Java or C++ class files based on schema data types.
Altova Inc.
900 Cummings Center, Suite 314 T
Beverly, MA 01915-6181
978-816-1600
http://www.altova.com/
MySQL database, which provides full support for transactions, now includes the ACID-compliant InnoDB—a high-performance transactional storage engine designed for high-performance and scalability when processing large data volumes under high concurrency. Other features provided with InnoDB include advanced row-level locking without requiring lock escalation; multiversioning to provide concurrency while maintaining maximum data integrity; and nonlocking reads.
MySQL AB
Bangerdsgatan 8
S-753 20 Uppsala
Sweden
46-18-10-18-90
http://www.mysql.com/
New from Seapine Software is Surround SCM, a cross-platform software change management (SCM) tool. The tool provides complete control over source-code changes to software development teams that require remote access, integrated defect tracking, and advanced branching and merging of capabilities. Surround SCM has client/server support on Windows, Linux, Solaris, and Mac OS X; and GUI clients are available on all supported operating systems. Surround SCM supports remote access over TCP/IP networks. It also integrates fully into Microsoft's Visual Studio 6 and Visual Studio .NET. Seapine includes a migration program to move files and their change history from Visual SourceSafe into Surround SCM.
Seapine Software Inc.
5390 Courseview Drive, Suite 115
Mason, OH 45040
513-754-1655
http://www.seapine.com/
Metrowerks has released CodeWarrior Development Studio, Embedded Linux Edition, a graphical development environment for creating applications that run on embedded Linux across a range of multiple processor architectures. It includes an application-level CodeWarrior debugger that provides multiprocess and multithreaded debugging, and enables debugging of shared libraries. Also new from Metrowerks is the CodeWarrior Development Suite for Symbian OS, Professional Edition, Version 2.0, a solution for application development on Symbian-based platforms.
Metrowerks
9801 Metric Boulevard
Austin, TX 78758
512-997-4700
http://www.metrowerks.com/
Compuware has announced DevPartner64, a debugging and error-detection solution for the Intel Itanium processor family. A key component of DevPartner64 is based on Compuware BoundsChecker, an automatic error-detection tool that enables C++ developers to identify and diagnose memory leaks, buffer overruns, pointer errors, and improper API usage.
Compuware Corp.
31440 Northwestern Highway
Farmington Hills, MI 48334
248-737-7300
http://www.compuware.com/
Cape Clear Software has released a free graphical WSDL Editor that delivers a complete environment for rapid WSDL development. Features include a web services creation wizard; fully automated wizards for creating and editing XML schema, schema array, complex types, simple types, and enumeration; support for WSDL validation and profiling; support for advanced WSDL capabilities and retrieval of WSDL from across networks, UDDI repositories, or Internet locations.
Cape Clear Software Inc.
1050 Winter Street
Waltham, MA 02451
781-530-3626
http://www.capeclear.com/
DDJ