Dr. Dobb's Journal October, 2004
Electric Cloud is shipping Electric Cloud 2.1, designed to speed software builds and improve network efficiency through peer-to-peer network communication, file compression, and support for multiCPU machines in the build cluster. At the core of Electric Cloud 2.1 is Electric Make, which is plug-compatible with existing Make-based build infrastructures so it can be deployed with little or no change to existing tools or environments. In order to ensure that parallel builds will not break, Electric Cloud has developed a dependency management system that monitors all files accessed during a build. Electric Cloud 2.1 records and reuses build dependency information, minimizing the Makefile maintenance required to achieve and maintain build performance.
Electric Cloud Inc.
2307 Leghorn Street
Mountain View, CA 94043
650-968-2950
http://www.electric-cloud.com/
LPSolver (Linear Programming Solver) is a Solver Add-on for OpenOffice.org and StarOffice. LpSolver can be used to solve complex linear, mixed integer, and binary optimization problems. It consists of linear programming libraries at the back end and spreadsheet documents at the front end. It is tailored for handling large, complex, one-of-a-kind problems that may require many revisions to establish an accurate model. By eliminating the need to think about purely technical machine-specific problems such as address calculations, storage assignments, subroutine linkage, and input-output and flow control, LPSolver increases the time available for conceptualizing and running the model, and analyzing the results.
LinuXml Inc.
2 Pointer Place
Kendall Park, NJ 08824
732-940-9756
http://solver.linuxml.com/
The Portland Group has announced Version 5.2 of PGI Workstation, a suite of Fortran, C, and C++ compilers and development tools for scientists and engineers. The PGI compilers and tools can be used on Linux workstations, servers, and clusters based on AMD64 and IA32 processors to build high-performance computing applications for complex modeling and simulations in automotive crash testing, structural analysis, weather forecasting, geophysical processing, aerodynamic simulation, computational chemistry, and related fields.
The Portland Group
9150 SW Pioneer Court, Suite H
Wilsonville, OR 97070
503-682-2806
http://www.pgroup.com/
X-Formation is offering LM-X, a license management solution for C and C++ software applications. It supports multiple licensing models out of the box and can be extended for greater functionality. Common applications include provision of hardware-locked, feature-based, and networked (floating) licenses. The solution implements strong public-key cryptography and can be integrated with AUTO-X, X-Formation's automated copy protection software.
X-Formation
Sioevaenget 18
DK-8381 Tilst, Denmark
+45-30228575
http://www.x-formation.com/
Nikeware has released Version 1.30 of its text file visual comparison software, letting you see the differences between two text files in a split-screen view mode. Visual Comparer includes a text editor that supports both ANSI and Unicode files (separate versions are available for download) as well as syntax highlighting for most popular programming languages, including C++, C#, JavaScript, Perl, Visual Basic, VBScript, and Pascal (Delphi).
Nikeware
Erbprinzenstrasse 4-12
76133 Karlsruhe Germany
http://www.visual-comparer.com/
M7 is introducing NitroX for JSP, an Eclipse plug-in for Java developers building JSP-based web applications. When you begin new development or import an existing web application, NitroX scans the Java application logic, JSP files, Struts artifacts, web and configuration XML files, and resource bundles, building a database that is incrementally updated as you make changes to the web application. NitroX then provides the ability to debug all application layers starting with the JSP page, to step over JSP instructions in the page itself, to step into the code of a tag and debug into the Java layers used by the tag, to step into Struts artifact code, and to step back out to the page.
M7 Corp.
20300 Stevens Creek Boulevard
Cupertino, CA 95014
408-850-0700
http://www.m7.com/
ComponentOne is offering ComponentOne Doc-To-Help 7.2 Professional, which is designed to create HTML Help, cross-platform HTML-based Help, JavaHelp, WinHelp, Microsoft Help 2.0, and printed documentation from a single set of Word documents. This new version includes Documenter for .NET, letting you automate .NET object model documentation and .NET application documentation; enhanced topic functions for adding topics and related topic links to projects instantaneously without rebuilding entire projects; and hyperlink usability.
ComponentOne LLC
4516 Henry Street, Suite 500
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412-681-4343
http://www.componentone.com/
Cape Clear Software is shipping Cape Clear 5, the latest release of the company's Enterprise Service Bus, which simplifies the integration of applications and data using a service-oriented architecture and web services. Version 5 introduces multiprotocol routing and messaging, enhanced data integration tools, extended support for building and scripting SOA and web services, improved enterprise management, BPEL-based composition and routing, and support for sophisticated security mechanisms, including digital signatures.
Cape Clear Software Inc.
880 Winter Street, Suite 300
Waltham, MA 02451
781-622-2258
http://www.capeclear.com/
DDJ