Java Product News (December 29, 2000)
INDEXHEAD: Tidestone Technologies updates Formula One for Java 8.0.1
Tidestone Technologies has unveiled a maintenance release of its Formula One for Java 8.0.1 application. The reporting application now:
- Exports XML from the application’s spreadsheet-based report templates
- Assigns clickable sections (or image maps) to exported charts, which allows users to drill down for data in reports sent to Web browsers
- Supports a new class that allows charts to be exported as PNG and GIF files from spreadsheet-based report templates on servers
Formula One developer licenses are priced at 99. Pricing for deployment licenses varies based on whether the distribution will be for commercial or internal purposes. Current Formula One for Java users can download the update at no charge.
INDEXHEAD: OneEighty Software extends Java functionality to 8-bit processors
OneEighty Software has outlined a new technology, codenamed Geneva, that allows 8-bit processors to offer complete Java capabilities. A clean-room implementation of a Java VM, the Geneva technology runs on OneEighty’s Origin architecture, which is used to create compact software applications. Geneva’s ultracompact code can be used to add Java abilities to inexpensive, low-memory chips, which can then turn consumer devices (such as pens or lighting) into smart devices.
INDEXHEAD: New book answers JMS questions
Java Message Service, a new book from Dave Chappell and Richard Monson-Haefel, introduces and describes the Java Message Service (JMS) API to developers. JMS is a Sun standard that supports communications, or messaging, between networked computers by supplying a common interface for standard messaging protocols and for distinct messaging services that support Java programs. The messages transfer information (such as service requests and event notification) between computer systems instead of users.
Java Message Service outlines:
- How to create JMS applications with publish-and-subscribe and point-to-point models
- How to implement messaging within Enterprise JavaBeans
- How to use features (like durable subscriptions and transactions) to make applications more reliable
The book costs 4.95.
INDEXHEAD: aJ-100 enhances embedded applications’ realtime performance
aJile Systems has introduced the aJ-100, a single-chip, low-power Java processor with an embedded realtime kernel. The aJ-100 implements Java VM byte code and realtime Java threading primitives to enhance the realtime performance of low-power, embedded products, such as mobile devices, Internet-based controllers, and consumer appliances. Features of the aJ-100 include:
- Hardware-based Java threading support
- 32-bit direct-execution Java processor core
- A manager for multiple Java VMs
- Dual 16550-compatible UARTs
- Three 16-bit timers/counters
Full production of aJ-100 is planned for March 2001. An aJ-100EVB evaluation board will be available by January 2001. Pricing for the aJ-100 starts at 7 each for 10,000 lots.
INDEXHEAD: Sun makes J2ME and MID available for the Palm platform
Sun Microsystems will ship a developer version of J2ME and the Mobile Information Device (MID) profile for the Palm OS platform to help developers write applications for Palm. Using the MID profile, users can download new services and applications to a device so that they can access the applications when unconnected to the system. The profile also supplies a standard API for compatibility between different device manufacturers.
Sun and Palm are planning other collaborative efforts via the Java Community Process that will establish a programming interface specification for PDAs. The PDA profile will eventually allow developers to implement other features in PDA applications, including native fonts, clipboard support, the exchange manager, and a native user interface.
INDEXHEAD: Atinav betas voice communications via wireless networks
Atinav has released a beta version of a voice-over-IP application that operates on the Windows CE operating system and allows handheld users to speak via wireless networks. Users of these devices need only a headset and a wireless network connection. The application will be incorporated into Atinav’s aveComm software offering, a Java-based software technology that improves the capabilities of standard CRM, help desk, and distance learning programs via PC-to-PC voice communications.
INDEXHEAD: Cytura 3.0 improves content management
Cytura has unveiled Cytura 3.0, an XML-based content-management offering. Version 3.0 enhances content management with Extreme Personalization, a word-specific standard with which organizations can customize content at the word level, perform realtime data updates, and create syndicated communities in a variety of languages. It has added the Site Builder application and administrative tools with which nontechnical users can create sites within a portal, while IT managers perform more administrative tasks (such as adding menu items, establishing type of content, and generating layouts). Cytura 3.0 supports Java, XML, and XHTML.
INDEXHEAD: BEA unveils BEA WebLogic Collaborate
BEA WebLogic Collaborate 1.0, a B2B infrastructure application that is part of the BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform, supplies organizations with an open, standards-based offering for creating, coordinating, and integrating online trading relationships. It can be used to deploy realtime collaborative commerce projects. The application’s mediated messaging and role-based administration architecture runs on the BEA WebLogic Server and is J2EE-compatible. It is also compatible with BEA eLink and the BEA WebLogic Java Adapter for Mainframe 4.1, which helps it to integrate between backend legacy systems and Web-based exchanges.
Evaluation copies of BEA WebLogic Collaborate 1.0 can be downloaded at no charge.
INDEXHEAD: Softwired debuts wireless JMS middleware offering
Softwired has unveiled iBus//Mobile, a Java Message Service (JMS) middleware offering for wireless devices. iBus//Mobile application helps developers create wireless applications that rely on the standard JMS API to communicate with application servers and backend systems. iBus//Mobile contains a server-side gateway capable of supporting nonprogrammable and programmable mobile devices. Softwired offers a JMS client library for certain programmable devices, including Symbian Communicators as well as Palm OS and Windows CE devices. The application’s message-based JMS architecture communicates with mobile devices via message queuing and publish-and-subscribe methods. This ensures that data is delivered to devices even if network coverage is restricted.
INDEXHEAD: Lutris adds load testing to Enhydra 3.5
Lutris Technologies has signed an agreement with RadView Software to incorporate and distribute RadView’s WebLoad 4.5 into the Lutris Enhydra 3.5 release. The deal supplies developers with the option to use WebLoad to test and analyze wired and wireless applications created with Lutris Enhydra 3.5. The combined offering also allows developers to conduct multiple WebLoad test scripts on sample applications that ship with Lutris Enhydra 3.5. This helps developers better understand how WebLoad and Enhydra interact and is expected to help them create customized load-testing scripts for their own Enhydra applications.
INDEXHEAD: MitemView 5.3 adds Java support
Mitem Corporation will ship the MitemView 5.3 integration server in January 2001. MitemView is a realtime, message-based integration offering with which organizations can develop applications that blend data from existing legacy systems and newly developed applications. It accomplishes this by integrating an event-driven application architecture with a message-processing engine. The updated MitemView 5.3 provides enhanced security with the MitemView Server Tunneling (MVST) technology, which divides a server into an inner and outer area with a secure tunnel between them. MVST relies on a proprietary protocol to monitor the tunnel and to forward user requests from the outer server to the inner server for processing. Version 5.3 also offers improved Java capabilities and new automation tools. With the ProStart tool, developers can use prebuilt templates to automatically create the basis for a new MitemView-oriented application. Developers can then incorporate their own business logic and customized integration control needs.
INDEXHEAD: Oracle updates Oracle Internet File System
Oracle has introduced the latest version of its Oracle Internet File System, an extensible filesystem for coordinating and accessing content via the Internet. The updated offering provides enhanced security by incorporating access control into the repository, which allows user access to be reviewed and monitored in a uniform way and ensures that only authorized users can obtain information stored in the database. The Oracle Internet File System also supplies developers with improved XML capabilities by allowing them to extend the filesystem for e-business purposes with the Java-based API and other Web-based languages (including XML, HTML, and Java). Finally, the Oracle Internet File System now supports Web distributed authoring and versioning (WebDAV), which enables users to collaboratively revise and coordinate files via the Web.
The updated Oracle Internet File System is part of the Oracle8i and Oracle9i application servers.
