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Certicom is shipping V4 of its Security Builder Crypto toolkit, which includes new Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS)-validated algorithms, intended to help you build applications and devices that meet U.S. Government regulations. Also new to Security Builder Crypto 4.0 is support for Microsoft's Smartphone operating system, Windows CE.Net 4.0, and Itanium (Linux and Windows) platforms. In all, 30 platforms are targeted. The toolkit also supports SHA-2 and uncompressed point Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) public keys, as well as MD5, RC4, RSA, and AES.
Certicom
5520 Explorer Drive, 4th Floor
Mississauga, ON, L4W 5L1
905-507-4220
http://www.certicom.com/

Rhapsody 5.0 from I-Logix implements the UML 2.0 Final Adopted Specifications and extends it with support for functional methods. Systems engineers and C programmers can create functional block diagrams, including data flows, while remaining inside the UML 2.0 environment. You can also select options to optimize the code size to reduce required ROM and RAM, or to generate code compliant the with the Motor Industry Software Reliability Association's guidelines. In addition, Rhapsody 5.0 features enhanced Sequence Diagrams, Ports, Tags, Free Flowing Activity Graphs, Information Flows, Statechart Inheritance, and Structured Classes. I-Logix
Three Riverside Drive
Andover, MA 01810
978-682-2100
http://www.ilogix.com/

Adept Technology, an industrial robot manufacturer, has released Adept ActiveV+ software, allowing real-time control of Adept robots and motion controllers from native PC languages using Microsoft COM. Adept ActiveV+ lets a PC issue direct real-time robot motion and monitor commands over an Ethernet- or FireWire-based high-speed bus. Using Microsoft's ActiveX controls, ActiveV+, lets you develop programs in native PC languages (like Visual Basic and C++) to move and monitor Adept robots and Adept controller-based mechanisms, and to integrate Adept HexSight PC-based machine vision software and third-party PC-based automation.
Adept Technology, Inc.
3011 Triad Drive
Livermore, CA 94551
925-245-3400
http://www.adept.com/

Aonix has released PERC 4.1, a JVM which provides a pacing agent and profiling tools designed to help you achieve real-time control of your applications. Using a new garbage-collection pacing API, the PERC 4.1 pacing agent monitors the memory allocation behavior of the application workload and automatically adjusts the timing and ratios of CPU-time increments dedicated to garbage collection activities. Source code for the pacing agent is provided if you need to fine-tune your code for specialized system needs. PERC 4.1 also includes AOT and JIT compiler optimizations, as well as new platform support.
Aonix North America, Inc.
5040 Shoreham Place, Suite 100
San Diego, CA 92122
858-457-2700
http://www.aonix.com/

M7 Application Assembly Suite Version 4.0 provides rapid application development (RAD) support for building Web applications with Java. M7 includes a repository designed to help you reuse existing IT assets including database schemas, Web services, and Java Beans. M7 also provides graphical tools for editing UIs and defining application navigation and workflow visually. The new version adds support for the Tomcat JSP Servlet Container, the JSTL and Struts open-source libraries, as well as new inline Java editing capabilities and integration with JBuilder, Eclipse, and WebMethods.
M7 Corporation
10101 N. De Anza Blvd., 1st Floor
Cupertino, CA 95014
408-850-0700
http://www.m7.com/

Workstate has announced Codify 1.3, an add-in for Visual Studio .NET that generates code from templates, replacing repetitive code patterns in projects. New to Version 1.3 is C++ embedded code generation, in addition to C# and VB .NET; file-based code generation, regardless of language; a template editor that runs as a standalone application, outside of Visual Studio; and enhanced workgroup features such as networked template locations.
Workstate
760 South Third Street
Columbus, Ohio 43206
412-436-0603
http://www.workstate.com/

Parasoft has updated both its SOAPtest and .TEST error prevention tools. SOAPtest 2.1, which now includes support for ebXML, automatically performs server functional testing, load testing, and client testing as well as creating test suites from WSDL documents. SOAPtest runs on Windows 2000/XP, Linux, and Solaris. .TEST is a set of over 200 built-in coding standards for Visual C# .NET, Visual Basic .NET, and managed Visual C++ .NET., and it now includes RuleWizard, a tool for designing custom coding standards.
Parasoft
101 E. Huntington Drive, 2nd Floor
Monrovia, CA 91016
626-256-3680
http://www.parasoft.com/

Teranex has introduced an MPEG Artifact Reducer to address DCT compression artifacts common to MPEG, JPEG, and DV material (such as the Gibbs Effect, blocking, quilting and I-frame pulsing). In addition to image enhancement, Teranex also provides a suite of applications for improving film-originated standard-definition and high-definition material; the imageRestore tools address dirt concealment, noise and grain reduction, scratch concealment and image instability.
Teranex
7800 Southland Blvd., Suite 250
Orlando, FL 32809
407-858-6000
http://www.teranex.com/

Quality Checked Software is now distributing Cantata++ 3.1, a software testing tool for C/C++ programmers. Among the new features available in Cantata++ 3.1 is an enhanced set of Java-based test wizards, which allow access to private class members, automatically wrap calls to external functions, and generate template test scripts. An HTML Results Viewer is also included for graphical presentation of test results in your test. Cantata++ now supports the GNU C++ v3.2 compiler as well as other compilers.
Quality Checked Software, Ltd.
P.O. Box 6656
Beaverton, OR 97007-0656
503-645-5610
http://www.qcsltd.com/

AgenSoft has released Patch Factory 2.0 for Windows, a program that helps you create patch packages for software and file updating. Generated patch packages are small self-extracting executable update programs with an adjustable multilingual interface (English, German, Italian, French, Polish and Czech languages are available). Patches can modify or replace installed software files to add new features, fix bugs, or add support for new hardware.
AgenSoft Inc.
7 Moskovskaya str.
Novomoskovsk 301670
Russian Federation
http://www.patchfactory.com/

Borland's Together Edition for Microsoft Visual Studio.NET is an agile design and modeling environment for .NET written in native C#. The UI is consistent with that of Visual Studio .NET. In Together, changes made to models are simultaneously replicated in code and vice versa. The software also features automated documentation, and software patterns designed to work as application blueprints. Organizations can create and modify their own patterns.
Borland Software
100 Enterprise Way
Scotts Valley, CA 95066-3249
831-431-1000
http://www.borland.com/

Extended Systems has announced Advantage Database Server 7.0. The new Advantage JDBC Driver lets Java applications native access Advantage Database Server, while the .NET Data Provider allows ADO.NET applications native access. The new release also supports triggers, for enforcing complex security authorizations and for providing transparent and independent event logging and auditing; communications compression to reduce network traffic between the Advantage Database Server and its clients; and full text search capability.
Extended Systems
5777 North Meeker Avenue
Boise, ID 83713
208-322-7800
http://www.advantagedatabase.com/

Zend Studio 3.0, an IDE for PHP applications, includes a remote debugger and new analysis tools. The Code Profiler finds application bottlenecks; the Code Analyzer analyzes static source code and attempts to reconcile problematic code. Zend Studio 3.0 also offers advanced code completion; JavaScript and HTML support; customizable key maps; version management and FTP integration; project and file inspectors; and project management capabilities.
Zend Technologies Ltd.
P.O.Box 3619
Ramat Gan, Israel, 52136
972-3-613-9665
http://www.zend.com/

Sextant Business Solutions has completed Decomp 4.05, a legacy application analysis process and toolset. New features in Decomp 4.05 include a major redesign of the business process/business rules editor, Detailed Deengineering; a new application source code archive and research facility, System Inventory; and a new legacy application system complexity analysis function, Code Statistics.
Sextant Business Solutions
32 Marian Road
Sparta, NJ 07871
973-729-1731
http://www.sextantsolutions.com/

SQLBase 8.5 is the latest embedded database product from Gupta. SQLBase lets multiple servers run in isolation on a single machine, and minimizes administration with a management console. Triple-DES encryption is used over the wire and for encryption of data on the local media. SQLBase 8.5 also features integration with Team Developer, Visual Studio, Visual Studio.NET and third party reporting tools and utilities, as well as SQL Language support for SQL?99 based ANSI Join syntax, including multiple outer joins.
Gupta Technologies
975 Island Drive
Redwood Shores, CA 94065
650-596-3400
http://www.guptaworldwide.com/

ReportingEngines has upgraded the Formula One e.Report Engine to include the ability to access and generate reports from in-memory Java objects. This feature is designed to support a distributed application architecture and provide developers with another data source for reporting, in addition to previous support for relational databases, EJBs, flat files, and XML data streams. With this method, application data can be queried once and accessed repeatedly.
ReportingEngines
12980 Metcalf Ave., Suite 300
Overland Park, KS 66213
913-851-2200
http://www.reportingengines.com/

Amtec Engineering has released Version 10 of its Tecplot technical plotting software with XY, 2D and 3D capabilities for visualizing data from analyses, simulations, and experiments. New multiple contour variable options in Tecplot 10 enable users to view and analyze several variables at once; other new plotting capabilities include polar plots, specular highlighting, RGB color flooding, 3-D scatter symbols and the ability to import image files. New data management features and user interface improvements have also been included.
Amtec Engineering, Inc.
13920 SE Eastgate Way, Suite 220
Bellevue, WA 98005
425-653-1200
http://www.tecplot.com/

New Altova 2004 tools consists of updates to XMLSPY 2004, AUTHENTIC 2004, and STYLEVISION 2004, and MAPFORCE 2004, a new visual data mapping tool with code-generation capabilities for XML and database integration projects. Using MAPFORCE 2004, you can programmatically convert data into XML from any database by drawing visual mappings from relational databases to any data model expressed in XML schema. MAPFORCE 2004 then generates the required program code to marshal data from the source database to the target XML schema.
Altova, Inc.
900 Cummings Center, Suite 314 T
Beverly, MA 01915-6181
978-816-1600
http://www.altova.com/

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