Of Interest

Dr. Dobb's Journal September, 2004

Webogy has announced that Version 2.6 of its Lightning Development System for creating C++ web applications is available. Webogy Lightning Development System (LDS) is a platform for developing, housing, running, and deploying secure scalable, mission-critical web applications. Among other features, it offers a programming model that lets you leverage high-performance C++ and windows-like HTML pages. It also provides a multithreaded execution engine that dynamically generates web pages and services submission requests.

Webogy LLC

3000 Lakeside Drive, Suite 105N

Bannockburn, IL 60015

847-317-1100

http://www.webogy.com/lds/lds.htm

stake has developed the SmartRisk Analyzer, an automated solution for identifying security vulnerabilities in software applications. Using deep static analysis of the application binary code, SmartRisk Analyzer can map application control and data flow paths into a comprehensive security model. Scans are designed to find flaws related to improper use of programming languages and standard libraries, flaws that may result from the deployment platform on which the application runs, and other vulnerabilities such as input validation, command and script injection, and backdoors and malware.

stake Inc.

196 Broadway

Cambridge, MA 02139-1902

617-621-3500

http://www.atstake.com/

9Rays.Net has released Spices.NET 3.5, a set of plug-ins for .NET developers. Spices.NET comes with five components—Obfuscator, Decompiler, Modeler, Investigator, and Informer. Spices.Obfuscator obfuscates .NET assemblies, and Spices.Decompiler decompiles .NET assemblies into six languages (MSIL, VB.Net, C#, MC++, J#, Delphi.Net) with syntax highlighting, with or without code optimizations. Spices.Modeler generates diagrams and charts related to various aspects of assembly members. Spices.Investigator is a low-level .NET metadata and PE-format browser, and Spices.Informer shows information about the currently selected assembly or assembly member.

9Rays.net LLC

Pils 12 190000

Riga Latvia

+371 7044001

http://www.9rays.net/

JGsoft has introduced RegexBuddy, a Windows and Linux utility designed to help you learn, create, understand, test, use, and save regular expressions. With RegexBuddy, instead of typing regex tokens directly, you pick what you want from a descriptive menu. A tree of regex tokens keeps track of the pattern you have built, and the RegexBuddy tester and debugger lets you step through the search matches and get detailed reports about each match. The Windows version of RegexBuddy provides both a command-line interface and a COM automation interface. The Linux version has an API that uses standard input/output to provide the same functionality as the COM interface on Windows.

JGsoft

56 Uppalisan Road

Muang, Ubonratchathani 34000

Thailand

http://www.regular-expressions.info/

The Eclipse Foundation has announced availability of Eclipse 3.0, a royalty-free release supports a rich-client platform (RCP) for construction of desktop applications. Enhancements include streamlined installation, improved customization of menus and toolbars, and a restructured workbench for running underlying program facilities in the background in a multithreaded environment.

Eclipse Foundation

2670 Queensview Drive

Ottawa, ON Canada K2B 8K1

http://www.eclipse.org/

ILOG has launched the developer edition of its Business Rule Studio (BR Studio), a plug-in for the Eclipse IDE based on ILOG JRules. Key features include Rule Project, a new project type in Eclipse that allows developers to manage business rules just like Java code; a business rule editor with real-time error checking; an embedded rule engine for rapid prototyping and rule execution; and integrated tools for debugging.

ILOG Inc.

1080 Linda Vista Avenue

Mountain View, CA 94043

650-567-8000

http://www.ilog.com/

Quinn-Curtis is offering Real-Time Graphics Tools for .NET, an object-oriented toolkit aimed at developers who want to add real-time graphics to their C# and Visual Basic for .NET applications. The toolkit includes more than 30 different types of real-time displays including scrolling graphs, bar indicators, dials, meters, clocks, and digital panel meter indicators. It also supports time/date coordinate systems required for real-time reporting in financial markets, process monitoring, and automation.

Quinn-Curtis Inc.

18 Hearthstone Drive

Medfield, MA 02052

508-359-6639

http://www.quinn-curtis.com/

PE Explorer 1.95 from Heaventools Software is a tool for inspecting the inner workings of Windows 32-bit executable files. PE Explorer offers a look at the PE (portable executable) file structure and all of the resources in the file. File structure can be analyzed and optimized, spyware tracked down, problems diagnosed, changes made, and resources repaired. Version 1.95 now supports removing debug information from the PE files, adds support for the SSE3 instruction set to the disassembler and improves the data-analysis algorithm.

Heaventools Software

Pacific Business Centre

101-1001 West Broadway, Dept. 381

Vancouver, BC, Canada V6H4E4

http://www.heaventools.com/

Parasoft .TEST 1.6 is a unit testing tool that automatically tests classes written on the Microsoft .NET Framework without requiring developers to write test scenarios or stubs. The new version of .TEST supports NUnit, automatically generating scenarios that can be compiled and run in NUnit without setting up the NUnit test harness by hand. .TEST can also automatically compile and run NUnit test cases in its own GUI.

Parasoft

101 E. Huntington Dr., Second Floor

Monrovia, CA 91016

626-256-3680

http://www.parasoft.com/

DDJ