Java Product News (January 5, 2001)
IBackup debuts Java-based backup scheduler
IBackup has unveiled Smart-IB Plus, a Java-based online backup scheduler that offers compression and incremental backup capabilities for Unix platforms. IBackup provides businesses with a Web-based storage option that supplies file backup and restore capabilities with multiple folder via Java-based Web browsers. The Smart-IB Plus application is platform-independent and allows administrators to schedule system backups at specific times and move information from a desktop into an IBackup account area. The application requires a Java Runtime Environment.
The company offers a variety of subscription plans that range from per month for 100 MB of data storage to 00 per month for 100 GB of data.
MobileQ enhances XMLEdge with Java and Unix support
MobileQ has updated its XMLEdge server software offering so that customers can now use it to access enterprise applications via PDAs, two-way pagers, digital cellular phones, and other mobile devices. XMLEdge 2.6 also includes the following features:
- Support for the Solaris operating system
- Integrated media capabilities, including the ability to handle images
- Integration into the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and other Java platforms
- Improved administrative and deployment features
TogetherSoft improves Together Control Center’s Java capabilities
TogetherSoft has introduced Together Control Center (TCC) 4.2, an application that automates business processes. New features of version 4.2 include:
- Enhanced Java debugging with applet debugging, servlet debugging, evaluate/modify capabilities, and tip-formed evaluation tools
- Ability to deploy Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) and servlets on IBM’s WebSphere and WebLogic Server 5.1
- Improved editing tools, such as bookmarks, split-pane editing, browse symbols, and HTML syntax highlighting
- Improved Java compiler with generation makefiles
- Optional JavaServer Pages client generation during EJB deployment with WebSphere and WebLogic Server 5.1
Vignette V/5 adds J2EE support
Vignette has launched a new version of its Vignette V/5 e-business suite that now supports the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE). The J2EE support includes Java servlets, JavaServer Pages, and Enterprise JavaBeans. With these capabilities, organizations can distribute Vignette V/5 applications with third-party J2EE application servers. Earlier editions of Vignette’s applications relied on a special language; as a result, it was difficult to create new sites that could be connected to the rest of an organization’s network. With the addition of J2EE support, developers can create a site that readily interacts with other applications within a network.
Oracle9i Dynamic Services now available
The Oracle Technology Network (OTN) is offering the Oracle9i Dynamic Services as a free download. The software utilizes XML and Java technologies to generate, organize, coordinate, and customize Web services. The Dynamic Services application gathers information from databases, Websites, or syndicated content sources. The application relies on XML to classify input and output parameters, to delimit e-business Web services, and to detail execution flows. Developers can take advantage of the last capability to offer those execution flows to browsers and wireless devices. The Oracle9i Dynamic Services will incorporate the most recent XML developments, including Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI), when the are finalized by the W3C.
Send video and sound over email
With Energis’s new Video Email service, users can transmit audiovisual messages without attachments or downloads. Developed by Energis, the service relies on technology from GEO Interactive Media and requires Internet access, a video email account, and a Web camera. An ActiveX Control records the messages, and Java applets play the messages. Energis is aiming the system at corporate intranet users and ISPs.
Streamwave Video Email will initially be marketed as a dedicated hosting solution. However, Energis expects to make it an ASP offering sometime during 2001.
Blue Martini Software unveils HP version of Customer Interaction System
Blue Martini Software is now shipping a version of its Java-based Customer Interaction System for the HP-UX 11.0 platform. Blue Martini Software already supports the Sun Solaris and Microsoft Windows NT platforms. With the Blue Martini Customer Interaction System, organizations can interact with customers via the Internet and call centers, in stores, and over wireless devices. It can be used to coordinate content, catalogs, analysis, customization, and other transactions.
SilverStream Application Server 3.7 now J2EE-compliant
SilverStream Software has announced the availability of its J2EE-certified SilverStream Application Server 3.7. Features of the Java- and XML-based application include:
- Support for JDBC 2.0, JavaServer Pages 1.1, and Servlet 2.2
- Enhanced Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) server capabilities
- EJB design wizards
- Improved enterprise connectivity with a Java CORBA 2.3-compatible ORB and a Java Messaging Service 1.0.2 messaging server
The SilverStream Application Server 3.7 is priced at 5,000 per CPU.
XIS 1.1 by Polexis now sustains JSP and servlets
Polexis has revamped its Extensible Information Systems (XIS) technology to support JavaServer Pages (JSP) and servlets; these new capabilities ease the creation of Web-enabled displays. XIS-enhanced Web servers let HTML browser-enabled clients obtain data from an array of available sources, and support WAP-enabled cell phones. Other features of XIS include support for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), email, and XML. The XML capabilities can be transformed into data in realtime and can be sent to different domains. XIS allows systems integrators to program data-source interfaces so that they can be accessed in realtime.
Lutris inks deal with Borland
Lutris Technologies has signed a more expansive licensing agreement with Borland that aims to create an out-of-box solution for the creation and debugging of Enhydra Internet applications. The agreement incorporates Borland’s JBuilder 4 Foundation for Windows, Linux, and Solaris into the Lutris Enhydra 3.5 application. The integration improves Enhydra’s Java and XML integration and is expected to help developers create Java applications for Enhydra more quickly. It also supplies Lutris Enhydra developers with Code Insight, Flexible Editor, Visual Debugger, Build System, and Package Builder tools to create, debug, and distribute Lutris Enhydra applications.
NetSilicon plans to add Java support
NetSilicon has released a new open source product strategy, which includes plans to add a Java-based offering to its product lineup and to add the EL/IX API to its NET+OS offering. NetSilicon’s first open source product was the NET+Lx, which integrated embedded Linux networking applications into an Ethernet-compatible system-on-chip offering. Future open source plans include:
- Java support
- Addition of EL/IX APIs across all of its platforms, which allows open source application software to operate on realtime operating systems
- Expanded support and service offerings to help users develop open source solutions
