Dr. Dobb's Journal June, 2004
Catalyst Systems has announced the release of its application build management tool, Openmake 6.3. The primary goal of Openmake is to remove the requirement for developers to perform any scripting at all—no makefiles, no XML scripting for Ant, and no special Java classes are needed to perform builds within the IDE or externally by a build master. The new version includes a plug-in for the Eclipse IDE; the ability to dynamically generate Ant build scripts at build time; and integration with Visual Studio .NET.
Catalyst Systems Corporation
P.O. Box 556
Glencoe, IL 60022
847-835-6106
http://www.openmake.com/
Certicom has introduced Security Builder Crypto-C#, a cryptographic developer toolkit for the Microsoft .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework. Security Builder Crypto-C# lets you port most crypto algorithms, including Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), from desktop .NET Framework-based applications to Windows CE .NET. Functionality is provided through a standard Microsoft Visual C# .NET API. Security Builder Crypto-C# is optimized for resource constrained devices and includes standards-based ECC implementations offering small key sizes with a high strength per bit.
Certicom
1810 Gateway Drive, Suite 220
San Mateo, CA 94404
650-655-3950
http://www.certicom.com/
Evolution Robotics is shipping ERSP 3.0 and the ERSP Scorpion robot, a robotic development platform for creating robotics products or adding autonomous robotic functionality to existing products. Enhancements include vSLAM autonomous navigation functionality, which allows robotic devices to move safely and freely in any environment with full knowledge of their locations and programmed destinations; improved APIs providing deeper access to the vision algorithm that drives object recognition and much of the navigation components; improved documentation; and upgraded graphical development tools.
Evolution Robotics
130 W. Union Street
Pasadena, CA 91103
626-229-3199
http://www.evolution.com/
The Numerical Algorithm Group's NAGWare f95 Compiler for Windows 4.2 supports the Fortran 95 language in its entirety, High Performance Fortran, legacy Fortran 77 code, and Fortran 2003 Standards for allocatable components and for IEEE Floating Point Exception Handling. The NAGWare f95 Compiler includes optional runtime checking of array bounds, pointer association, and procedure arguments. Automatic garbage collection is available as an option. Built-in modules provide an interface to Posix system calls such as GETARG and SYSTEM. To achieve portability, the NAGWare f95 Compiler uses C as its intermediate language, automatically invoking the host compiler to produce object code.
Numerical Algorithm Group Ltd.
Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road
Oxford, OX2 8DR, United Kingdom
+44-1865-511245
http://www.nag.co.uk/
Absoft has released Fx2, a new source-level debugging tool for Fortran (F77, F90, F95), C, C++, and assembly languages. Fx2 is available for 32- and 64-bit Linux systems and is compatible with Fortran compilers from Absoft, IBM, Intel, and PGI, plus many C/C++ compilers. Supported architectures include x86/IA32/AMD32, AMD64, and PowerPC/G4/G5. The Fx2 Debugger works with command-line and graphical interfaces on single-processor desktops, multiprocessor workstations. For clients using OpenMP or MPI, a distributed interface that easily scales from 2-1024+ processes is optional. Absoft has also released version 9.0 of its Fortran 95 compiler for AMD Opteron or Athlon 64-bit processors running Linux.
Absoft Corporation
2781 Bond Street
Rochester Hills, MI 48309
248-853-0050
http://www.absoft.com/
Lomboz, an Eclipse workbench for professional J2EE- and web-services developers, is now available under an open-source license. Lomboz provides generators and wizards to automatically create directories, configuration files, and XML scripts for Java applications. Lomboz also supports developing, testing, and debugging server applications using preconfigured server scripts and JSP and Servlet syntax editors. Version 3.0 of Lomboz, scheduled to be released immediately following the 3.0 release of Eclipse, supports J2EE 1.4 specification features such as Servlet 2.4 and JSP 2.0. Lomboz works with all J2EE-compliant application servers.
eteration gmbh
Kronprinzenstrasse 76
53173 Bonn, Germany
+49-228-4109-730
http://lomboz.objectweb.org/
The McCabe IQ Suite of tools are designed to help organizations analyze the effectiveness of their application testing and measure the quality and complexity of their software. The latest release of McCabe IQ (8.0.1) introduces support for the C++.NET and VB.NET languages, including static analysis, test analysis, and .NET IDE integration on Windows platforms. McCabe & Associates has also updated its software configuration management line: TRUEchange 3.0 introduces a new Java client with detailed data representation, versatile user control flows, and client-side conflict resolution.
McCabe & Associates
200 Centerville Road, Suite 12
Warwick, RI 02886
401-384-6180
http://www.mccabe.com/
Kinesix has announced KX Views, a software design tool for visually generating XSLT stylesheets consisting of XSL and XSL-FO rules. Previously released under the name "Visual XSL Studio," KX Views provides a WYSIWYG interface, letting you create and deploy XSL stylesheets for rendering XML data without writing any code. Alternatively, experienced XSL programmers can also work directly with the underlying code.
Kinesix Corporation
7700 San Felipe, Suite 200
Houston, TX 77063
713-953-8300
http://www.kinesix.com/
DDJ