Dr. Dobb's Journal November 2006
Exadel has announced that Ajax4jsf 1.0, an open- source project that combines AJAX and JSF, has been released. Designed to bring rich UI functionality to the JavaServer Faces (JSF) world, Ajax4jsf is a rich component framework that extends the benefits of JSF to AJAX development. Ajax4jsf 1.0 lets you add AJAX capability easily, even to existing JSF applications. Among other features, Release 1.0 provides AJAX support within JSF for asynchronous communication and partial page updates, and the capability to make existing JSF components AJAX-enabled with no changes to the components themselves. www.exadel.com
ITT Visual Information Solutions has announced the release of IDL 6.3 for Mac OS X on Intel. This IDL release runs as a native application on all Mac Intel-supported machines and offers significant performance benefits. According to Bill Okubo, IDL product manager for ITT, the company is seeing a growing popularity of Mac OS X across a variety of industries for scientific and analysis applications. www.ittvis.com
The Portland Group has announced that Version 6.2 of its PGI C/C++ and Fortran compilers and development tools adds native support for 32-bit Windows. In addition, PGI 6.2 includes enhancements to the unique PGI Unified Binary feature that enables a single x64 binary executable containing code sequences optimized for both AMD and Intel x64 processors, ensuring correct function and optimal performance regardless of the type of x64 processor on which applications are deployed. The PGI Unified Binary lets you leverage the latest processor features from both AMD and Intel while treating x64 as a single platform, maximizing flexibility and eliminating the need to target and optimize for two separate processor platforms. www.pgroup.com
Recursion Software has announced its C# Toolkit 2.0, a set of reusable data structures and algorithms that extends the .NET library. The C# Toolkit 2.0 includes generic type parameters and an expanded data structure family over the previous release. It has more than 50 algorithms designed for use with collections and C# native arrays of objects. In addition, there are generic algorithms that can be adapted using function objects and predicates to solve most collection-processing problems. The toolkit also adds two new data structures to its family, LinkedHashMap and LinkedHashSet, thus extending its already rich variety of data structures. www.recursionsw.com
Productive Software Systems has released Version 3.0 of its Robot source-code search engine. Robot is a source code and text cross-referencing tool that differs from other string-searching tools by maintaining a database of specific references within text and source-code files. It provides fast online inquiry to those references and the files that contain them. You can specify how references or items are constructed by the Robot parsing utility for each language processed. Robot supports languages and report writers whose source files are stored as text files, including C, C++, Cobol, Oracle, Fortran, RPG, Pascal, and SQL. Robot is currently supported on HP-UX and will soon be released for Solaris. www.prodsoft.com
FairCom has announced Universal Binary support for Mac OS X Version 10.4 (Tiger) across its C-tree database engine family. According to Randal Hoff, Director of Business Development, Faircom was able to complete the C-tree port in under a week from start to finish. Receipt of the hardware to completion of all QA processes was less than a month, end to end. www.faircom.com
Dundas Software has announced the start of the Beta period for its Dundas Map for .NET, which includes full support for Visual Studio .NET 2003 and 2005. Dundas Map comes with a comprehensive feature set, full design wizards, full sample framework, and a full library of maps from around the world. It is available in ASP.NET and Windows Forms versions. www.dundas.com