Dr. Dobb's Journal March, 2005
Simian Systems has developed phpBeans, a standard for implementing enterprise-level applications in PHP. phpBeans defines a method of allowing objects to communicate seamlessly across separate machines. phpBeans provides specifications and reference implementations of the phpBeans Object Server, the phpBeans Protocol, and the phpBeans Client API.
Simian Systems
1071 Corydon Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canada R3M 0X3
204-942-8630
http://www.simian.ca/
Red Gate Software has released a new version of its SQL Bundle Developer Edition, designed to simplify development of automated programs for comparing, synchronizing, and packaging Microsoft SQL Server databases. The new release includes compression for the SQL Packager that reduces package sizes. SQL Bundle Developer Edition comprises five Red Gate packages: SQL Compare, SQL Data Compare, DTS Compare, SQL Packager, and SQL Comparison and Synchronization Toolkit.
Red Gate Software
St John's Innovation Centre
Cowley Road, Cambridge
United Kingdom CB4 0WS
+44 870 160 0037
http://www.red-gate.com/
Wind River Systems has announced a number of new releases for device development and support. Wind River Workbench 2.2 is an Eclipse-based development suite supporting VxWorks, Linux, and in-house operating systems. The Wind River General Purpose Platform integrates VxWorks 6.0, Wind River Workbench 2.2, and middleware. The Wind River Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition combines Carrier Grade Linux with support for telecom hardware. Lastly, Wind River Market Specific Platforms include industry specific middleware for consumer devices, industrial devices, and network equipment.
Wind River
201 Moffett Park Drive
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
408-542-1322
http://www.windriver.com/
Caphyon LLC has released Advanced Installer Professional 2.1, a Windows Installer authoring tool for MSI packages. Advanced Installer runs on Windows 2000/XP, and the packages it creates run on all Microsoft Windows 9x/ME/NT/2k/XP operating systems. The project files are saved as XML. This new version adds support for installation folders that are synchronized with disk folders for easier project maintenance.
Caphyon LLC
2017 California Street, Suite 1B
Mountain View, CA 94040
http://www.caphyon.com/
Codejock Software is shipping its Xtreme Toolkit Professional Edition 9.51 for Visual Studio .NET, including Xtreme Suite, Xtreme Command Bars, Xtreme Docking Pane, and Xtreme Property Grid. The Xtreme component family provides customizable UI components for developing Microsoft-style applications for use with Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC), ActiveX, and Microsoft.NET development platforms.
Codejock Software
204 W Exchange Street, 2nd Floor
P.O. Box 726
Owosso, MI 48867
989-723-1442
http://www.codejock.com/
ActiveState's Perl Dev Kit 6.0 introduces GUIs for most tools, providing visual guides to build options. Also included is the PDK Filter Builder, a tool for interactively creating text processors that do custom filtering and replacement operations, and VBScript Converter for generating Perl code from VBScript. The Dynamic DLL Loader supposedly eliminates the need to write temporary files to the disk during execution of most applications, saving disk space, reducing clean-up of temporary files, and increasing security.
ActiveState
580 Granville Street
Vancouver, BC Canada V6C 1W6
604-484-6800
http://www.activestate.com/
Canoo has released a new Eclipse 3.0 plug-in that simplifies Internet-application development with the UltraLightClient Java library. Offering a server-side programming and execution model, UltraLightClient complements the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) to help you provide responsive GUIs for web applications within J2EE and J2SE infrastructures. UltraLightClient follows the Swing API but takes care of the code split and optimizes communication.
Canoo Engineering AG
Kirschgartenstrasse 7
4051 Basel, Switzerland
+41 (61) 228 94 44
http://www.canoo.com/
Wingware has upgraded the Wing IDE for Python to Version 2.0. New features include a completely redesigned customizable user interface, call tips, syntax error indicators, editor tabs and splits, multifile wildcard and regular expression searching, integrated documentation and tutorial, a German localization, and Unicode support. Wing IDE Professional is available on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and other platforms.
Wingware
P.O. Box 1937
Brookline, MA 02446-0016
617-232-0059
http://wingware.com/
IDEAL Software is shipping Version 3.60 of its ad hoc document creation library Virtual Print Engine (VPE) for Windows. The new version ships with two new .NET components, one for Winforms and one especially created for ASP.NET. The components let you dynamically create precise reports, documents, forms, and drawings by calling functions at runtime.
IDEAL Software GmbH
Erftstrasse 102 a
41460 Neuss, Germany
+49 2131 1511 - 690
http://www.IdealSoftware.com/
Perforce Software has added a Time-lapse View to its Perforce Software Configuration Management system. Time-lapse View provides a graphical way to view the complete change history of individual text files stored in the Perforce repository. Perforce also now integrates with Discreet 3ds max, Adobe Photoshop, and Alias Maya.
Perforce Software Inc.
2320 Blanding Avenue
Alameda, CA 94501
510-864-7400
http://www.perforce.com/
DDJ