Dr. Dobb's Journal January 2003
M7 has released Version 2.0 of its M7 Application Assembly Platform. New features include: an enterprise object repository that lets objects be reused without requiring expert knowledge of their implementation; web services support; support for custom libraries; a visual site inspector, which enables examination of uses and dependencies in the application including the monitoring of workflow status, broken links, and orphaned files; and JSP 2.0 support, which lets you visually edit JSP and Java Servlet applications. M7 now includes support for J2EE application servers such as BEA WebLogic 7.0, IBM WebSphere 4.0, and JBoss 2.4.
M7 Corp.
10101 North De Anza Boulevard
Cupertino, CA 95014
408-850-0700
http://www.m7.com/
Datalight has released FlashFX, a line of flash memory management software tools, which includes the FlashFX Design Ready Kit, the FlashFX OS-Specific Adaptation Kit, and the FlashFX Universal Porting Kit. The FlashFX Design Ready Kit includes a binary device for preconfigured operating systems, CPU, and flash memory. The driver integrates into the development environment to establish a FlashFX disk that can be formatted and used like a standard disk drive. The FlashFX OS-Specific Adaptation Kit is portable to any processor and most flash memory technologies, and is tailored to a specific operating-system environment. It is Windows CETK tested.
Datalight Inc.
21520 30th Drive SE, Suite 110
Bothell, WA 98021
425-951-8086
http://www.datalight.com/
Developer 8, from InstallShield, is the newest version of the company's installation authoring solution for Windows Installer (MSI) setups. It now includes patching and updating technology, Quickpatch, which enables the creation of simple and reliable patches to change files and registry entries in previously deployed packages. Other features include control over Windows Installer packaging with direct access to all properties, support for Windows CE-based applications, and support for clean build systems. Developer 8 lets you create InstallerScript Objects, which provide a way to reuse work in multiple projects.
InstallShield Software Corp.
900 National Parkway, Suite 125
Schaumburg, IL 60173-5108
847-240-9111
http://www.installshield.com/
Sleepycat Software has announced the release of Berkeley DB 4.1, the newest version of its data management system. 4.1 adds security features including encryption that employs the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). Also new in 4.1 is support for database page checksums to allow detection of database corruption caused by hardware or software failures, and improvements to the shared memory buffer pool in order to improve concurrent throughput and provide better scalability on multiprocessor machines.
Sleepycat Software Inc.
118 Tower Road
Lincoln, MA 01773
617-876-0858
http://www.sleepycat.com/
Telelogic has released Telelogic Tau/Architect and Telelogic Tau/Developer. Both tools, along with the previously released Tau/Tester, form the development tools known as Tau Generation2, which lets you deploy across the entire enterprise an integrated, multiuser visual tool solution that supports the application development lifecycle. Some of the new features include: system specification, which allows you to visually specify systems using UML 2.0; specification of behavior, allowing you to visually specify the dynamic aspects of the system's behavior; and dynamic model verification.
Telelogic AB
PO Box 4128, Kungsgatan 6
SE-203 12 Malmö
Sweden
46-40-650-00-00
http://www.telelogic.com/
ApacheConf 3.0, from Zecos Software, is a shell for tuning the main configuration file of the Apache web server, http.conf. It has advanced descriptions of all the server's directives and parameters, and will provide help about any directive at any time. ApacheConf's GUI lets you view, edit, and get help off any server's directive, and has managers to easily manage some of Apache's directives such as LoadModule, Alias directives, and ErrorDocument. ApacheConf also allows you to edit an http.conf file directly from the remote server via an FTP connection.
Zecos Software
Leningradskaya St. 34/6-36
Murom, Vladimir rgn. 602205
Russia
http://www.zecos.com/
New from Wanderlust Software is the licX Licensing Component for .NET, a solution for licensing applications and components written for .NET. It features drag-and-drop integration with existing Visual Studio .NET projects, which allows you to quickly add licensing support to your products. licX also provides support for redistributable components, ensuring that only properly licensed components can be redistributed; and it supports evaluation licenses, which lets a single product distribution to behave differently depending on the license key used.
Wanderlust Software LLC
1120 SE 12th Avenue
Deerfield Beach, FL 33441
http://www.wanderlust-software.com/
Actional SOAPstation is a web-services management platform that simplifies the secure distribution of web services to broad networks of web services consumer applications. It acts as a web services proxy, brokering the interactions between the applications that provide web services and the systems that build on them. SOAPstation provides a unified point of control for web service provisioning, version management, business activity monitoring, and end-to-end security across the entire web services network. Actional SOAPstation is available for Windows, Solaris, and Linux.
Actional Corp.
701 North Shoreline Boulevard
Mountain View, CA 94043
650-254-4100
http://www.actional.com/
Phaos Technology has released the Phaos Liberty Toolkit, which enables you to build applications that adhere to the sign-on authentication and authorization specifications set by the Liberty Alliance. With the Phaos Liberty Toolkit, you can build applications that enable single sign-on capabilities, support the consolidation of enterprise authentication schemes, and allow the migration from legacy infrastructure to XML-based web services. It provides integrated XML digital signatures and XML encryption, and provides stronger privacy and identity protection mechanisms by integrating hardware options. The Phaos Liberty Toolkit works with any XML parser. Also new from Phaos Technology is the Phaos XML Toolkit 2.0, a Java toolkit for building interoperable XML-based applications; and Phaos SAML 1.0, which provides a protocol, consisting of XML-based request and response message formats, to communicate assertions of an entity's attributes, authentication, and authorization.
Phaos Technology Corp.
11 Broadway, Suite 1051
New York, NY 10004
212-514-6515
http://www.phaos.com/
Daemon News has released Unix Utilities for Mac OS X, a graphical UNIX environment for Mac OS X. It installs the graphical UNIX environment and includes a window manager that integrates transparently onto the user's existing Mac OS X desktop. Unix Utilities also includes a small collection of open-source applications compiled for OS X, and packages everything into a simple Apple installer.
Daemon News
560 South State Street, Suite A2
Orem, UT 84057
http://www.daemonnews.org/
Kenamea has released Kenamea Web Messaging Platform 2.0. Features in this version include an open, standards-based messaging API that extends messaging capabilities to any platform that supports HTTP; enhanced support for integration between systems using Kenamea messaging and traditional web business logic, enabling communication with existing web-based systems such as Java servlets, JSPs, ASPs, and CGI; performance enhancements and high availability features that increase throughput and reliability of Kenamea powered applications; support for Microsoft .NET Windows Forms applications; and run-time software and developer tools that enable you to extend applications securely to mobile devices such as PocketPC.
Kenamea Inc.
575 Market Street, 12th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
415-869-5000
http://www.kenamea.com/
Embarcadero Technologies has released ER/Studio 5.5 and ER/Studio Repository 2.0 for data modeling and database design. Features in ER/Studio 5.5 include a new graphical interface that assists in the arrangement, navigation, and communication of complex diagrams; and more than 50 new features that include data dictionary updates and support for complex objects such as Oracle packages and materialized views. Version 2.0 of ER/Studio Repository introduces a checkout option that provides restricted rights to the checkout user, new status icon symbols and pop-up help support, and several performance and implementation updates.
Embarcadero Technologies Inc.
425 Market Street, Suite 425
San Francisco, CA 94105
415-834-3131
http://www.embarcadero.com/
DataDirect Technologies has announced DataDirect jXTransformer, a software component that transforms data between XML and relational formats in Java programs. DataDirect jXTransformer enables you to write XML code once and it will work across multiple relational databases and with older versions of individual databases. It uses an API for data access and does not require any database changes. DataDirect jXTransformer adheres to ANSI SQL and W3C protocols, and leverages DataDirect Connect for JDBC drivers.
DataDirect Technologies
3202 Tower Oaks Boulevard, Suite 300
Rockville, MD 20852
301-468-8501
http://www.datadirecttechnologies.com/
PE Corrector, from GigaMind Systems, is a tool for correcting compilation bugs. PE Corrector lets you clear binary trash in headers of PE files; insert information (such as copyright data) into headers; erase section names such as .rsrc and .REloc; remove relocations tables; erase selected functions in the export section; reduce the size of PE files; prepare PE files for exe-packers; and protect PE files from crackers. The supported file types are exe, dll, sys, bpl, dpl, cpl, ocx, acm, ax, and scr. It is available for all Windows platforms.
GigaMind Systems Ltd.
Kosmonavtov 37
Volgograd—400117
Russia
http://www.gigamindsystems.com/
DDJ