New Product Briefs (March 31, 2000)
Ezlogin.com adds LiveClips to customized offerings
Ezlogin.com has expanded its suite of personalization tools with the addition of LiveClips, a tool that lets Internet users clip content, such as ski reports or news headlines, and post the clips on a personal LiveClips page. All clips have live links, which provide users with immediate access to information from the original site and ensures that the clips are current. The clips are renewed during sign-on and can occasionally be refreshed to ensure that the displayed data remains current.
The LiveClips tool is incorporated into Ezlogin.com’s other personalization offerings, including OneClick Login, OneClick Registration, Instant CheckOut, Personal Summary, and OneClick Sharing.
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c-IT Locate helps customers find your business
ObjectFX has targeted the ASP/ISP market with its c-IT Locate offering, a Java-based Web mapping application. With c-IT Locate, organizations can display maps of their location, allowing Web users to then obtain driving directions to the business.
c-IT Locate offers the following Web-mapping capabilities:
- Displays of customer-specific business entities on detailed maps
- Nationwide street-level data, nationwide geo-coding, and nationwide routing with directions
- New customer set-ups with templates that require limited manual intervention
- A security/authentication module and a billing/usage tracking module
c-IT Locate can be deployed on Unix and Windows platforms.
Enhydra ships on CD
Lutris Technologies has announced that Enhydra 2.3, a Java/XML application server, is now available on CD.
Enhydra 2.3 has been enhanced with the addition of Enhydra Tools for JBuilder. These tools are compatible with Inprise/Borland’s JBuilder offering. Wizards simplify development efforts; particularly helpful is an application wizard that generates Enhydra application shells to speed the development of an application within JBuilder. This eliminates much of the structural preparation needed when creating three-tier applications. An Enhydra XML Compiler (XMLC) Wizard is included as a JBuilder add-in wizard. The XMLC Wizard functions within JBuilder and guides developers through the selection of the to-be-compiled XML or HTML files, compiles the files, and then examines the compiled trace and output logs. The CD also includes an example that shows how this feature can be used to create dynamic Web pages using JBuilder and Enhydra XMLC.
The disk contains Enhydra 2.3 as well as Inprise’s JBuilder 3 Foundation and the Enhydra Tools for JBuilder. It will be distributed in the April 2000 issue of Enterprise Linux Magazine.
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SourceGuard 4.0 protects code by bewildering decompilers
4thpass has enhanced SourceGuard 4.0, a source code protection application. SourceGuard protects an organization’s intellectual property by protecting original code. The application makes decompiling programs useless because it replaces original code names and references with senseless symbols and variables.
New SourceGuard 4.0 features include:
- Unused code pruning, which decreases footprint size and results in faster downloads
- Control over protection expressions with Protection Rule Manager
- Reverse lookup capabilities to facilitate access to original and confused names
- Reflection and RMI support
- Protection for all versions of Java bytecode
SourceGuard 4.0 pricing varies. An online download of the Enterprise Edition is priced at ,995, while an online download of the Professional Edition costs 95.
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MKS updates Change Integrity
Mortice Kern Systems (MKS) has enhanced MKS Change Integrity, a Java-based change management application for creating, distributing, and maintaining ebusiness software and Web content.
MKS Change Integrity features include:
- Improved workflow functions that allow companies to track project changes and execute replicable processes
- Customized process management features used to implement changes and processes while upholding management practices
- Views that can be tailored by users to meet their needs with customizable options, such as Fields, Forms, Process and Workflow, Main View, Email Notification, Queries, Field Dictionary, and Security
The MKS Change Integrity server component is priced at ,199 with SSL and ,999 without SSL. Single-user client components are priced at 99.
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Sun delivers source code for Forte for Java, Community Edition
Sun Microsystems is releasing the source code for its Forte for Java, Community Edition 1.0, a cross-platform development and integration tool for Java technology. The IDE offering will be delivered under the Mozilla Public License, which is compatible with the Open Source Definition and is accepted by the open source community. While the source offers developers access to the core API from which plug-in modules can be developed, two Forte for Java elements will not be open sourced — the browser and compiler. Sun expects developers to replace these modules with alternatives.
Forte for Java, Community Edition, includes the following features:
- Help for the filtering and browsing of hierarchy Objects, Packages, and Object Members with Object Browser feature
- Dynamic IDE upgrades via the Update Center
- Advanced Swing capabilities for creating user interfaces
- Clean code generation without proprietary classes or special comments by using Form Editor
- A multithreaded debugger to monitor and track threads
The Forte for Java binary code is available as a free download. The source code should be available by the end of May, 2000.
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SiteView simplifies online shopping
SiteView Technologies has introduced SiteViewer Robust, a Java application that helps users browse and purchase items from a PC desktop without a browser. SiteViewer brings an ecommerce store to users’ desktops, allowing them to download a self-extracting application containing a Website’s database and images.
The application self-installs and places an icon on the user’s desktop. Users can then browse the electronic catalog on- or offline, without using a browser. The icon can be updated by signing on to the Internet and selecting an update option. The technology circumvents search service issues and navigation difficulties, and provides one-click access to a company’s products and services. Purchases can be made through the program, and users need only to sign on when they check out.
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Espial offers remote management for smart devices
Espial has released Espial deviceTop, a service-empowered Internet appliance platform, and Espial deviceServer, a server-based infrastructure for service providers and enterprises. The two offerings create a smart device platform that allows ISPs and other providers to remotely manage application services and content on portable smart devices.
DeviceTop offers an operating environment and content-delivery platform targeting Internet-ready, Java-enabled devices. DeviceTop:
- Offers a Java-based graphical desktop environment that allows the remote addition, removal, or upgrade of device applications and services
- Operates multiple applets and applications from a single embedded Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
- Allows OEMs to tailor and brand Internet appliance offerings
The Espial deviceServer remotely coordinates upgrades, administration, and device control, which makes it a good thin-client solution. In addition, deviceServer:
- Queries specific devices to determine their states and profiles
- Provides users with access to the most current information
- Ensures secure administration and transfer of application services and content
- Includes an ecommerce module with the ability to supply unified billing, evaluate meter service usage, and develop business models
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