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April 10, 2002
Dr. Dobb's Software Tools Newsletter - April 2002Do you find keeping up with new developer products and version updates harder than keeping up with the Joneses (whoever they are)? If so, Dr. Dobb's Software Tools e-mail newsletter is just the deal for you. Delivered once a month to your mailbox, this unique newsletter keeps you posted on the latest in SDKs, libraries, components, compilers, and the like.
Jinfonet Software has released JReport 4, a Java reporting tool. New
in this release is viaWeb Designer, a web-based report designer that allows
the creation and modification of reports directly from the browser. Also
new is a page-level security that allows control of which subset of a
report users will see, and output to XML, making JReport fully compatible
with this standard for online business information exchange. Additionally,
this release has a faster PDF generator, which is added to the list of
output formats that also includes HTML, DHTML, Excel, RTF, Email, CSV,
Applet, and PostScript.
NEC Electronics has announced a 8-bit microcontroller design contest.
The "Esprit de K0RE" contest invites design engineers to submit
embedded designs using NEC's popular uPD78F9418A flash
Dart Communications' PowerTCP Zip Compression Tool lets you zip/unzip
functionality to applications regardless of whether they are manipulating
files or memory. Dart's QuickZip methods enable file compression and decompression
with a single line of code. The architecture maximizes the memory usage
on Windows NT/9x and enables operation on a separate thread. Additionally,
it includes flexible file/memory buffer interaction that allows zipping/unzipping
file to file, buffer to buffer, and file to buffer. Other features include
standard encryption functionality for securing a zip file, a robust object-oriented
design, easy to use functionality, and multithreading. The Zip Compression
Tool supports both Windows zip standards and gzip for UNIX, and is compatible
with WinZip and PKZip.
The Imaging Source has announced IC Imaging Control, a video capture
ActiveX and C++ class library. Features include the ability to capture
video from USB, Firewire, PCI, PC-Card, and DV devices; ability to build
one application that runs on PCs with PCI cards and also on standard laptop
hardware with no modifications; ability to switch between video sources
on the fly; full frame at full resolution live video preview; single frame
and image sequence capture; and video codec support to write to .AVI.
iCodeRepository 2.17 is a code manager that lets you avoid repetitive
programming and collect reusable source code. Among the tools it includes
are: txt2html, which converts source files to HTML format with syntax
highlighting; Mini Spy++, which retrieves Windows information; File Killer,
which deletes garbage files on the hard disk; and Clipboard Monitor, which
monitors the clipboard text. iCodeRepository has a built-in text editor
that supports syntax highlighting in Basic, C++, Java, Object Pascal,
and more. It runs under all Windows platforms.
ConeXL has announced the availability of PTest+ and CTest+, a set of
test benches that allow independent testing of message brokers built to
the Java Message Server (JMS) specifications. PTest+ implements use cases
that describe typical real-world scenarios where the use of messaging
is a key requirement. The tests perform multiple Pub/Sub and Queuing tests,
latency tests, the effect of message rules on performance, varying load,
burst messaging (e-commerce), flow control, and other tests. CTest+ is
a comprehensive test suite for testing the quality of product implementation
against the JMS API standard. The test includes positive tests for each
line of the JMS 1.0.2 API and provides profiling of all JMS features.
These tests allow independent verification of the implementation, as well
as help to identify bugs in brokers.
AlachiSoft's TierDeveloper 1.0 is an object-to-relational mapping and
code-generation tool that helps you design, generate, and deploy middle-tier
data objects for your enterprise applications. TierDeveloper supported
platforms include Microsoft .NET for C# and VB.NET, BEA WebLogic 5.1 and
6.1, IBM WebSphere 4.0, iPlanet 6.0, JBoss 3.0, and Microsoft Windows
DNA with C++ and Visual Basic. It also supports database servers such
as Oracle, DB2, and Microsoft SQL Server.
SoftSynth.com has released JavaSonics, which adds CD-quality audio input/output
capabilities to Java applets and applications. Java programs written using
JavaSonics can run on a wide range of platforms, including most browsers.
JavaSonics can be used to create voice-mail applications, voice message
systems, web phones, music recording, playback systems, and music synthesis
applications. It can be used with stand-alone Java applications and will
work with Java 1.1 and above. JavaSonics native code is currently available
for Windows and Mac OS 7, 8, and 9.
Convey Software's Convey Localization Suite is a set of three products
that integrates with existing enterprise software and scales to handle
all of the users, projects, and languages involved in large-scale localization
efforts. The three products are: Convey Content Director, a web application
that enables you to automatically and securely access, submit, track,
detect changes to, and manage content for localization; Convey Global
Project Manager, a web application that provides workflow technology,
resource management, language processing, reporting, and content filtering
capabilities; and Convey Localization Toolkit, a set of desktop applications
to increase translator productivity through a seamless integration with
existing Computer Aided Translation tools.
PolarLake has released PolarLake Web Services Express (WSE), a Web Services
platform based on PolarLake, an enterprise strength XML development and
deployment platform. PolarLake WSE uses the PolarLake XML server to create
and deploy Web Service providers from EJB, COM, and Java applications
with no code changes, no generated code, and no scripts. It includes the
PolarLake Web Service Wizard, a point and click graphical tool that automatically
generates WSDL and configuration information; the PolarLake SOAP Integration
Server, which automatically converts between SOAP messages and EJB, Java,
or COM calls; and the PolarLake XML server, which includes the Management
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Lineo has announced the release of Lineo Embedix Bridgeworks VX and PS,
a hard real-time solution for porting legacy code from VxWorks or pSOS+
to embedded Linux. Instead of using a translation technique, Lineo has
created a new, cleanroom implementation of RTOS services that operates
natively on the legacy API and runs ahead of Linux. The advantages of
this architecture include: real-time services with microsecond performance
by default; no translation/emulation complications; flat memory model;
user applications have full access to Linux services; elimination of dependency
on original legacy RTOS vendors; no dual-kernel patent issues; and migrated
legacy applications are not required to be released under an open source
license.
Excel Software has released QuickUML Linux, an object-oriented design
tool that provides integration for a core set of UML models, and the first
Linux addition to its suite of Mac and Windows software engineering tools.
With QuickUML Linux, an entire project is accessible through a tabbed
window with integration between use cases, class models, object models,
dictionary, and code. Design work can be shared between platforms. Also
from Excel Software is QuickHelp for Linux, a development tool for creating
and distributing online help for Linux applications. It consists of a
QuickHelp Builder for creating help systems and a QuickHelp Viewer for
deploying them to end users.
Pencel has released Kinectivity 2.0, a mobile data application platform
with a single visual environment for database, conduit, and forms development,
as well as application deployment. New features include an XML server
interface and custom control, which enables Kinectivity applications to
exchange data with a wider variety of data sources through XML and to
be extended with control built outside of Kinectivity. Other new features
include the custom forms and menus that provide full access to the user
interface, including presence and layout of top and bottom bars as well
as content and launched commands for pull-down menus.
PointBase 4.2, from PointBase, is a pure Java, small-footprint database
management solution that provides SQL database and data synchronization
capabilities to Java applications running on any Java-enabled platform.
Enhancements in the 4.2 product suite include Autoincrement, which provides
a means to generate unique values; and API functionality for loading and
unloading SQL data to and from a database. Also from PointBase is PointBase
UniSync for Micro, a database and synchronization product. PointBase Micro
provides a subset of JDBC and a database engine for devices supporting
J2ME and J2SE. You can create database-driven applications on all Java
platforms using this API.
Jiiva has announced the release of Application Builder Collection (ABC)
1.1, a set of reusable Cocoa frameworks for building Mac OS X applications.
ABC is an extension to the Cocoa development tools and kits provided by
Apple Computer, and leverages existing classes, naming conventions, and
design patterns. It contains formatters to control the specific presentation
and input of text, such as international currencies and telephone numbers,
and uses expressions to format text in complex ways. ABC contains user-interface
widgets, such as calendar popups and twiddle views, that can be used by
drag-and-drop without having to write code.
Altova has released XML Spy 4.3 Suite, a set of developer tools for XML
development. The tools consist of the XML Spy 4.3 IDE, the XML Spy 4.3
XSLT Designer, and the XML Spy 4.3 Document Editor. XML Spy 4.3 allows
web services development on all of the major web services platforms including
Microsoft .NET and J2EE, and testing and debugging of web services based
on SOAP. In addition, it supports graphical editing of XML Schemas that
use Microsoft SQLXML schema extensions.
4ee4's MySQLConnect for 4D 1.0.4 is a 4th Dimension plugin that provides
connection routines between 4th Dimension 4D Server, 4D Runtime, 4D Runtime
Classic, 4D Engine applications, and MySQL Database Servers. Using MYSQLConnect
for 4D, 4D developers have a set of 4D routines to manage: connections
to/disconnection from MySQL Database Servers; structure SQL queries; data
SQL queries; administration SQL queries; support for 4D datatypes including
BLOB and PICTURE; and internal mechanisms to manage simple quotes used
in SQL queries. MySQLConnect for 4D works with 4D 6.7, and is available
for Mac OS Classic, Mac OS X, and all Windows platforms.
Versata Interaction Server (VIS) 5.5 is a process logic engine from Versata,
and can be embedded into products such as IBM WebSphere 4.0 and BEA WebLogic
6.1, or can be used stand-alone. VIS 5.5 provides more declarative functionality
with new capabilities in the Process Logic Engine and the Process Logic
Designer. Rather than writing Java code to program the engine, you can
point and click to specify the process requirements. Important features
include Java Transaction Server (JTS) support and Client EJB interfaces
to increase the number of ways that the VIS can be embedded into applications.
Adept DeskTop from Adept Technology is PC software used to graphically
program, control, and monitor Adept equipment using the V+ and MicroV+
programming languages. It includes the Adept ActiveV, and ActiveX (COM)
library, which gives users the power to call V+ or MicroV+ monitor commands
from within other PC application programs such as Microsoft Visual Basic
and C++. Adept DeskTop features standard Microsoft-style toolbars, icons,
and drag-and-drop tools, facilitating ease-of-use editing, debugging,
and execution of programs.
Telera's Voice Web Application Platform 5.0 lets wireline and wireless
service providers develop voice services that can be deployed over packet
and traditional networks. This version includes enhancements such as support
for IP-centric technologies and converged infrastructures. New functionality
in Version 5.0 includes an open platform that supports the evolving VoiceXML
standard; a new modular design that enables platform scalability; integration
with the latest speech technologies, including Nuance 7.0 and SpeechWorks
6.5 SE speech recognition software and Speechify text-to-speech engine;
a provisioning system that integrates and manages disparate service components
from a centralized management system; and support for domestic and international
telephony interfaces including T1 and E1.
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