Dr. Dobb's Journal November 2007
CodeGear has announced JGear, a set of specialized plug-ins for Eclipse. The JGear toolset includes: JGear Performance for Eclipse performance and tuning; JGear LiveSource for Eclipse, which includes a graphical EJB workbench and web services designer; and JGear Team for Eclipse, which offers agile team collaboration tools. www.codegear.com/products/jgear
Extentech has announced OpenXLS, an open-source version of ExtenXLS, the company's Java SDK for spreadsheets. OpenXLS is released under the GPL license, is based on the same codebase as ExtenXLS 3, and provides Excel compatibility. extentech.com
The Portland Group has announced that its C/C++ and Fortran PGI compilers, application debugging, and performance-profiling tools support code targeting Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors. All PGI compilers support generation of PGI Unified Binary executables, which lets developers leverage the processors from both AMD and Intel while treating x64 as a single platform, eliminating the need to target and optimize for two separate processor platforms. www.pgi.com
Rally Software Development has announced integration "connectors" with Rally's Agile lifecycle management tools that include: tool connectors with Subversion, Eclipse, Visual Studio; and testing connectors for Bugzilla, Jira, Mercury Quality Center, Fitnesse, JUnit, Seapine TestTrack Pro, Ant, CruiseControl, and Maven, among others. www.rallydev.com
Infragistics has released TestAdvantage 2007 Volume 2, a collection of custom wrappers built using Mercury Interactive QuickTest Professional's .NET add-in extensibility. TestAdvantage enables automated testing of the presentation layer. In addition, TestAdvantage records/replays tests and uses the standard Mercury QuickTest Professional capabilities. www.infragistics.com
McObject has added support for the Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) API to its eXtremeDB 3.1 in-memory embedded database system. Based on the Call Level Interface specified by the SQL Access Group, ODBC is a library of functions that lets any ODBC-enabled application connect to any database for which an ODBC driver exists, and retrieve/insert/update/delete data using SQL statements. www.mcobject.com
WSO2 has launched Web Services Framework for PHP 1.0, an open-source framework for web services in PHP. According to WSO2, WSF/PHP 1.0 is the only PHP extension that supports the full web services (WS*-) stack. WSF/PHP supports basic web services standards, including SOAP 1.1, SOAP 1.2, WSDL 1.1, and WSDL 2.0. It provides interoperability with .NET, the Apache Axis2/Java-based WSO2 Web Services Application Server, and other J2EE implementations. www.wso2.com
Astron Digital has released Version 4.7 of its AspLib Component Library. This control suite lets ASP.NET developers develop web applications with controls that fully support localization. This release includes controls such as Calendar, InputDateTime, InputNumber, InputText, MaskedTextbox, TabControl, UrlTextbox, and WaitLoading controls— all of which are available at no charge. controls.asplib.net