Dr. Dobb's Journal July, 2004
DRLX 1.0 from Devicelogics is a DR-DOS-based Linux loader that loads a complete Linux kernel while preserving DR-DOS in memory so that, upon Linux session completion, the system returns to DR-DOS. Also from Devicelogics, KDeBUG 1.0 is built upon the KDB Linux kernel patches supplied by SGI, but provides an enhanced interface and feature-set upgrade. And the DR-DOS operating system itself has been upgraded to Version 8.0, with new FAT32/large partition support.
Devicelogics Inc.
645 East Technology Avenue, Building B
Orem, UT 84097
801-722-7077
http://www.devicelogics.com/
Expect, an automation tool based on Tcl, automates access to interactive applications and streamlines system administration and testing tasks. ActiveState has now released Expect for Windows 1.0, letting users control applications running on mainframe or UNIX servers from Windows workstations. Expect works natively with the Microsoft Windows console and is consistent with the latest Expect version (5.40) and compatible with the Tcl 8.4 core.
ActiveState, a Division of Sophos
#400-580 Granville Street
Vancouver, BC
V6C 1W6 Canada
604-484-6800
http://www.activestate.com/
The TotalView 6.4 debugger for Linux and UNIX is available from Etnus. The 6.4 release includes support for SuSE ES 8.2 on Linux x86, Red Hat EL 3.0 for Linux IA-64, and Red Hat Fedora Core 1, along with new compilers such as Intel's Fortran 8.0 for Linux. TotalView also now supports Sun One Studio Compiler Collection, C/C++, and Fortran version 8.0. This release also brings two GUI additions: The Expression List Window gathers and group expressions that software engineers want to evaluate during debugging sessions, while the Data Window lets users monitor interesting variables and structures.
Etnus LLC
24 Prime Parkway
Natick, MA 01760
508-652-7700
http://www.etnus.com/
C Point has released Antechinus C# Editor 6.0, a streamlined, low-cost visual development tool for C#. Version 6 of the C# Editor introduces the Visual Forms tool, which lets you design Windows forms and dialogs visually, by dragging and dropping buttons, text boxes, and other objects from the toolbar. The objects can be moved, sized, and aligned, and their properties can be specified via Visual Basic-style property sheets.
C Point
71 Williamson Road
Para Hills 5096
Adelaide, Australia
+618 82633623
http://www.c-point.com/
Canoo has announced UltraLightClient 5.2 (ULC), a software library that provides thin-client support for Swing, the standard component library for rich Java clients. Using this library, server-side J2EE applications can offer rich Swing-based graphical user interfaces in a thin-client architecture. Version 5.2 now provides support for drag-and-drop user interaction. In addition, ULC now supports distributed garbage collection between client and server.
Canoo Engineering AG
Kirschgartenstrasse 7
CH 4051 Basel, Switzerland
+41 (61) 228 94 44
http://www.canoo.com/ulc/
Bug Tracking 4.5 is the latest version of elementool's web-based application for managing and tracking bugs. Bug Tracking allows unlimited users per account. It is customizable in terms of creating different fields, querying and filtering parameters, and generating reports, which can be text-based and incorporate colorful bar and/or pie chart graphics. Individual users can specify the information they want displayed when logging into their account.
elementool Inc.
666 Fifth Avenue # 372
New York, NY 10103
212-504-7998
http://www.elementool.com/
Avaki 5.0 includes data integration enhancements to simplify the provisioning, access, and integration of data from multiple, heterogeneous, distributed sources. It also debuts the Enterprise Data Integration Framework, a set of capabilities to bring all of a company's data integration efforts under one enterprise-wide umbrella. Two new integration service constructs, the Data Service and the Data Grid Query, are included, and Avaki now integrates with XML tools from Altova.
Avaki Corp.
15 New England Executive Park
Burlington, MA 01803
781-272-3331
http://www.avaki.com/
Version 3.6 of the NetBeans IDE is available, providing a pure Java technology development environment for Windows, Linux, the Solaris Operating System, or Mac OS X. The new version features a new windowing system; enhanced navigation and workflow; two-tier J2EE 1.4 support (servlet 2.4 and JSP 2.0 specification); improved JSP specification debugging with JSR 45 support; support for J2SE 1.5 beta version; code editor enhancements such as Smart Brackets and Code Folding; and improved online help with the JavaHelp 2.0 integration tool.
Sun Microsystems Inc.
4150 Network Circle
Santa Clara, CA 95054
650-960-1300
http://www.sun.com/
Birdstep Technology is offering Birdstep RDM Mobile 3.0, a small footprint database designed for mobile computing systems. RDM Mobile uses a C-based Database Definition Language (DDL) to define all of the data relationships to the degree of detail needed by the developer. It also features automatic database recovery, multi-user support, transaction processing and file locking, and API functions that can open databases incrementally or in bulk.
Birdstep Technology Inc.
2101 4th Avenue, Suite 2000
Seattle, WA 98121
206-748-5353
http://www.birdstep.com/
DDJ