Dr. Dobb's Journal, March 2006
VIA Technologies has released the VIA Java Cryptography Service Provider (VIA JCP), an add-on package that enables the Java Runtime Environment offload AES encryption and random-number generation to the VIA PadLock Security Engine integrated into VIA C7-M and VIA C7 processors. The VIA JCP enables Java-based applications that utilize the Java Cryptography Architecture to benefit from the military-grade protection offered by the VIA PadLock Security Engine with no program modification. Running in the background of Windows and Linux, the VIA JCP requires no user interaction or maintenance. The VIA JCP can accelerate these AES cipher functions by up to 90 times, enabling real-time encryption of data with low processor utilization, and strengthens the process of private/public key creation through utilizing the unprecedented speed and quality of VIA PadLock's quantum-based random-number generators to build an unshakable foundation for security. The VIA JCP is available for free download at http://www.viaarena.com/.
VIA Technologies
940 Mission Court
Fremont, CA 94539
510-683-3300
http://www.via.com.tw/
AccuRev has introduced Health Checker for CVS, an open-source tool for organizations using the CVS version control system to identify CVS repository inconsistencies. Instead of writing custom scripts and processes to maintain a healthy and consistent repository, you can use Health Checker for CVS to identify inconsistencies and correct them. AccuRev's Health Checker for CVS is available immediately at no charge.
AccuRev
10 Maguire Road
Lexington, MA 02421
781-861-8700 ext. 10
http://www.accurev.com/hc6/
Wolfram Research has released Mathematica Personal Grid Edition, a toolkit designed specifically for quad-core computers. Mathematica Personal Grid Edition offers performance improvements of up to 300 percent over standard Mathematica, with only minimal code modifications. For more-intensive parallel applications, programs can run unchanged on grids or clusters of any size using gridMathematica. The tool is available for Windows (32-bit, 64-bit), Mac OS X (32-bit, 64-bit), Linux (32-bit, 64-bit), Solaris (SPARC, x86-64), Linux Itanium, HP-UX, IRIX, AIX, HP Tru64 UNIX, and compatible systems.
Wolfram Research
100 Trade Center Drive
Champaign, IL 61820-7237
217-398-0700 ext. 3189
http://www.wolfram.com/personalgrid/
IBM Rational has announced support for Visual Studio .NET 2005. The IBM Rational Functional Tester is an automated functional and regression-testing tool for Java and Web-based applications that supports shell integration for VS .NET 2005 for automated test development. IBM Rational Functional Tester leverages VB .NET as the scripting language and is hosted in the Visual Studio .NET 2005 shell. Testers choose between Eclipse and .NET for their test script development environment. IBM Rational Performance Tester, a load and performance-testing solution that helps teams pinpoint scalability concerns, now integrates with Tivoli's composite application management and monitoring products.
IBM
1133 Westchester Avenue
White Plains, NY 10604
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/
Pentek has released a development platform containing all the hardware and tools required for software-defined radio development compliant with the Software Communication Architecture (SCA) mandated for all future U.S. military radios. The Pentek SCA 2510 hardware platform consists of a Pentek 7640 software radio transceiver PCI card installed in a PC workstation. The computer is loaded with Linux, development tools, and the SCARI++ SCA core framework from Communications Research Centre (CRC) Canada. The hardware and software are fully integrated to ease development. The PCI card comes preconfigured with drivers and libraries so you can immediately begin software-defined radio projects.
Pentek
One Park Way
Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458-2311
201-818-5900, ext. 766
http://www.pentek.com/
Sublime Solutions has announced the release of FireDaemon, which lets you install and run any 32-bit/64-bit application or script as a service under Windows NT, 2000, XP, 2003, and Vista. The application enables complete configuration of the installed services. Configuration options can be set up via the GUI or command line using XML configuration files.
Sublime Solutions
Chittick Lane
Cobbitty NSW 2570
Australia
+61-28-205-7622
http://www.firedaemon.com/
Electric Cloud has released ElectricInsight, which provides a graphical window into the build so that error detection and performance tuning can be done in seconds. ElectricInsight is an add-on to the company's ElectricAccelerator 3.0 product, which provides diagnostic and acceleration tools for builds.
Electric Cloud
2307 Leghorn Street
Mountain View, CA 94043
650-968-2950
http://www.electric-cloud.com/
TechSmith has announced TechSmith Screen Recorder SDK Version 3 for integrating lossless screen recording functionality into Windows-based applications. Features of Screen Recorder SDK include the ability to pan the capture area, cursor and click highlighting for added impact, support for disabling hardware acceleration to provide smoother captures, audio callback, and sample apps. The TechSmith Screen Recorder SDK includes the TechSmith Screen Capture Codec (TSCC), a 100-percent lossless video codec optimized for compressing high-performance content in AVI format. The TSCC video codec is freely redistributable. The SDK includes both a low-level Windows DLL API as well as a self-contained, ATL-based, ActiveX control.
TechSmith
2405 Woodlake Drive
Okemos, MI 48864-5910
517-381-2300
http://www.techsmith.com/
DDJ