Java Product News (January 12, 2001)
ePath Learning unveils Learning ASAP 2.0
ePath Learning has introduced ePath Learning ASAP 2.0, an eLearning development tool that helps nonprogrammers create, distribute, and coordinate multimedia eLearning courses, performance support systems, and tests via the Internet. The application:
- Establishes links within course pages to external Websites to display content or stream media
- Embeds HTML content into text boxes in test, course, and quiz content pages, which support Java applets and JavaScript
- Optimizes ManageKit feature, which supplies quicker access to learner records and management reports
Merlin Software releases beta version of Communicado Fax 4.0
Merlin Software Technologies’ beta version of its Communicado FAX 4.0 now replaces the HotWire FAX application. Features of Communicado FAX 4.0 include:
- Support for the class 2.0 fax modem standard
- Updated Java- and Swing-based interface
- Compatible with Applixware Office, StarOffice, and WordPerfect Office 2000
The personal edition provides an experience similar to modem email applications, while the enterprise edition supplies remote clients for Microsoft Windows users who can send, view, receive, and print faxes on Linux servers.
WebGain and TIBCO announce partnership
WebGain will incorporate TIBCO’s Turbo XML development application into its WebGain Studio Java application development platform. TIBCO’s Turbo XML supplies an application suite for creating, coordinating, distributing, and processing XML assets such as XML schemas, instance documents, DTDs, or stylesheets. It can be used to develop XML-based rules, messages, and documents that can then be implemented in XML application development efforts.
Zucotto debuts free Whiteboard SDK
Whiteboard SDK by Zucotto Wireless is a free development offering for creating wireless J2ME applications and services. The Whiteboard SDK helps developers create applications and devices that are compatible with the J2ME Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC) and Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP). The Whiteboard SDK, Standard Edition, allows developers to experiment with the Whiteboard tools and create MIDP-compatible applications. The Standard Edition ships with a device emulator, a device editor, documentation, and sample MIDlets. The Whiteboard SDK, Bluetooth Edition, ships with the same tools as the Standard Edition as well as the tools needed to create and test Bluetooth wireless networking elements of Java applications, including a Bluetooth Software Stack, the Developers’ Bluetooth API, and two Bluetooth Communication Boards.
MediaForm unveils Java-based CD-R publishing system
cdDirector2000, a Java-based CD-R publishing offering, supplies organizations with a production option for large volume and disc-on-demand CD-R duplication demands. The system developed by MediaForm also ships with MediaForm’s antipiracy SmartDrive technology. Users can perform CD-R disc-on-demand functions from any network connection, including Web browsers, via a Java script. That also allows users to perform CD duplication from local or remote locations. Other features of cdDirector2000 include:
- 8 antipiracy SmartDrives
- 500 CD spindle capacity
- Java-based client
- Ability to scale up to 16 drives and/or 2 thermal printers
- Asynchronous functionality
The cdDirector2000 CD-R publishing system costs 9,999.
SilverStream streamlines construction of e-business applications
SilverStream Software has unveiled SilverStream Application Server Version 3.7, which is part of the XML- and Java-based SilverStream eBusiness Platform. The J2EE-certified application server helps organizations create and distribute e-business applications. New features of Version 3.7 include:
- Enhanced Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) server capabilities
- EJB design wizards
- Compatibility with Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.2, Servlet 2.2, JDBC 2.0, and JavaServer Pages 1.1
- Improved enterprise connectivity via Java Messaging Service 1.0.2 messaging server and a Java-based CORBA 2.3-compatible ORB
SilverStream Application Server 3.7 costs 5,000 per CPU.
ANT Fresco browser allows Internet browsing on ZapMedia’s ZapStation
ANT Limited has announced that its Fresco Internet browser will be incorporated into ZapMedia’s ZapStation hardware reference architecture. The ZapMedia hardware reference platform contains ZapMediaEngine software and the ZapMedia Portal. It allows users to download, save, stream, coordinate, and replay customized news and entertainment Internet content. The ANT Fresco browser offers a platform-independent solution with a small memory footprint that allows OEMs to create and customize an interface for Internet devices. The ANT Fresco relies on a three-tiered architecture that includes the ANT Portability Environment (APE) for coordinating the hardware interface, a graphical front end, and standards-compliant browser code. ANT Fresco also operates on Java technology using JNI to interface with Java-based Internet devices.
Sun presents J2SE for Linux
Sun is now offering Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) 1.3 for the Linux operating system. J2SE for Linux relies on the Java HotSpot client virtual machine and server virtual machine. The porting of Java to Linux was the result of a collaborative effort with Blackdown (a collection of Linux and Java developers). The Blackdown team is now working on Linux versions of the Java 3D optional package and the Java Media Framework.
Altia offers Java API
Altia has added Java support to its graphics software applications by creating a Java API that allows Java applications to connect to graphics developed in the Altia FacePlate or Design applications. The Java API allows developers to benefit from Java’s online security features and platform independence without needing the Abstract Windows Toolkit or Swing Java graphics toolkits. Altia’s graphics can also generate monitoring and control screens, in which the Internet remotely coordinates controls and instrumentation devices across a variety of locations. Java programs that are opened from a Webpage operate in a stricter space, decreasing any potential damage to a client computer.
Users can purchase a single node-locked license of the Java API for 95.
Sun unveils Netscape 6 for Solaris
Sun Microsystems has released Netscape 6 for the Solaris Operating Environment. The open browser supports the most current Web standards and supplies users with integrated Java technology. Netscape 6 for Solaris includes:
- Support for Document Object Model (DOM), XML, CSS level 1, J2SE, Java extensions, Java pluglets, Java 2-based XPCOM elements, and Java extensions
- Open browser technology that relies on the Mozilla.org open source project
- Complete browser, Web content, and email offerings for Solaris platform
Netscape 6 for Solaris Operating Environment can be downloaded at no charge from the Sun Website.
