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December 15, 2004
Dr. Dobb's Software Tools Newsletter - November 2004Shannon Cochran
Do 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.
Webogy has announced that Version 2.6 of its Lightning Development System for creating C++ Web applications is available. Webogy Lightning Development System (LDS) is a platform for developing, housing, running, and deploying secure scaleable, mission-critical web applications. Among other features, it offers a programming model that lets you leverage high-performance C++ and windows-like HTML pages. It also provides a multi-threaded execution engine that dynamically generates web pages and services web page submission requests.
@stake has developed the SmartRisk Analyzer, an automated solution for identifying security vulnerabilities in software applications. Using deep static analysis of the application binary code, SmartRisk Analyzer can map application control and data flow paths into a comprehensive security model. Scans are designed to find flaws related to insecure or improper use of programming languages and standard libraries, flaws that may result from the deployment platform on which the application runs, and other vulnerabilities such as input validation, command and script injection, and backdoors and malware.
9Rays.Net has released Spices.NET 3.5, a set of plug-ins for .NET developers. Spices.NET comes with five components--Obfuscator, Decompiler, Modeler, Investigator and Informer. Spices.Obfuscator obfuscates .NET assemblies, while Spices.Decomplier decompiles .NET assemblies into six languages (MSIL, VB.Net, C#, MC++, J#, Delphi.Net) with syntax highlighting, with or without code optimizations. Spices.Modeler generates diagrams and charts related to various aspects of assembly members. Spices.Investigator is a low-level .NET meta-data and PE-format browser, and Spices.Informer shows information about the currently selected assembly or assembly member.
JGsoft has introduced RegexBuddy, a Windows and Linux utility designed to help you learn, create, understand, test, use, and save regular expressions. With RegexBuddy, instead of typing regex tokens directly, you pick what you want from a descriptive menu. A tree of regex tokens keeps track of the pattern you have built so far, and the RegexBuddy tester and debugger lets you step through the search matches, and get a detailed report about each match. The Windows version of RegexBuddy provides both a command-line interface and a COM automation interface. The Linux version has an API that uses standard input/output to provide the same functionality as the COM interface on Windows.
PE Explorer 1.95 from Heaventools Software is a tool for inspecting the inner workings of Windows 32-bit executable files. PE Explorer offers a look at PE (portable executable) file structure and all of the resources in the file. Once inside, file structure can be analyzed and optimized, spyware tracked down, problems diagnosed, changes made and resources repaired. Version 1.95 now supports removing relocations and debug information from the PE files, adds support for the SSE3 instruction set to the disassembler, and improves the data analysis algorithm.
The Eclipse Foundation has announced availability of Eclipse 3.0, a royalty-free release supports a rich-client platform (RCP) for construction of desktop applications. Enhancements include streamlined installation, improved customization of menus and toolbars, and a restructured the workbench for running underlying program facilities in the background in a multi-threaded environment.
Quinn-Curtis is offering Real-Time Graphics Tools for .NET, an object oriented toolkit aimed at developers who want to add real-time graphics to their C# and Visual Basic for .NET applications. The toolkit includes more than 30 different types of real-time displays including scrolling graphs, bar indicators, dials, meters, clocks, annunciators and digital panel meter indicators. It also supports time/date coordinate systems required for real-time reporting in financial markets, process monitoring and automation. Users are able to interact with charts: adding annotations, defining custom tool-tips and zooming into a particular region of a real-time plot.
ILOG has launched the developer edition of its Business Rule Studio (BR Studio), a plug-in for the Eclipse IDE based on ILOG JRules. Key features include Rule Project, a new project type in Eclipse that allows developers to manage business rules just like Java code; a business rule editor with content assist contextual help and real-time error checking; an embedded rule engine for rapid prototyping and rule execution; and integrated tools that allow debugging across Java source code and business rules.
ICEsoft Technologies has announced ICEpdf SDK, a Java SDK for rendering PDF documents. ICEpdf can be used as a standalone document viewer, as a lightweight component tightly integrated into Java applications, or combined with ICEbrowser SDK to view PDF content embedded in HTML. This multi-platform PDF viewer technology supports Embedded TrueType Fonts, Font Substitution, and "ToUnicode CMaps." Typical PDF viewer functionality such as viewing, scaling, navigation, and printing are also supported. PDF documents can also be exported to multiple image formats such as JPG, PNG, or SVG. ICEpdf SDK can be deployed as part of a client application via Java Applet or Web-Start technology, or integrated into a server-side solution as a Servlet.
SQLMemTable from AidAim Software is an in-memory table and query components library for Delphi and C++ Builder. It does not require BDE and provides all the TTable functions, such as master/detail relationship, filtering, searching, sorting, blob fields, key and range methods, as well as some advanced features like blob fields compression and Unicode support. New in Version 2.20, SQL syntax has been enhanced by new options to work with index and ORDER BY clause.
Groove Networks has upgraded its Groove Development Kit (GDK) to version 3.0, supporting the latest version of the Groove peer-to-peer virtual office software. The Groove platform consists of a set of core capabilities--secure data synchronization, activity awareness, and contextual conversation--that can be accessed through the new Groove Forms rapid application development environment, or APIs exposed via .NET and web services.
Excel Software is shipping QuickBugs 2.0, a development tool for reporting, tracking and managing bugs, changes, and user requests. New features include configurable, event-triggered e-mail notifications, improved report generator, streamlined workflow, and new online help. A shared XML-based repository is accessible to multiple users and projects with assigned responsibilities, configurable access and privileges for users on each project. The built-in report generator comes with standard reports for metrics, work assignments, status and summaries, plus the ability to create custom reports.
Parasoft .TEST 1.6 is a unit testing tool that automatically tests classes written on the Microsoft .NET Framework, without requiring developers to write test scenarios or stubs. The new version of .TEST supports NUnit, automatically generating scenarios that can be compiled and run in NUnit without setting up the NUnit test harness by hand. .TEST can also automatically compile and run NUnit test cases in its own GUI.
Reactivity has announced the Reactivity Gateway-D, a desktop XML firewall appliance designed to boost the productivity of web services developers. You can create security policies using the Gateway-D, then migrate them to Reactivity's XML Firewall as the web services move from development to deployment. Administrative tools, including detailed audit and message logs, a log event viewer with drill-down details, SNMP event reporting and notification, policy validation and analysis and one-click policy rollback, provide auditing and rapid issue diagnosis capabilities.
MetaCase has released a Linux version of its customizable modeling and code generation environment, MetaEdit+, aimed at the expert developer looking to gain productivity by generating full code directly from models. MetaEdit+ 4.0 now runs on all major Linux distributions, such as RedHat 6.0 or later. The MetaEdit+ environment includes Method Workbench, which an experienced developer can use to define a modeling language as a metamodel, and a code generator to turn the models into code.
Runtime Revolution has made its Revolution 2.2 available for Linux and most major UNIX platforms. Revolution 2.2 offers enhancements for users on every major platform including a new standalone application builder; improvements to the database linked controls; additions to the Transcript programming language; better performance and stability; and new features for applications running on Mac OS X and Windows.
WorldSync is shipping its new SyncDeK Developer Kit on Mac OS X and Windows, providing an environment for configuring, testing, deploying and maintaining FileMaker solutions using the new SyncDeK 5.0 data synchronization technology. SyncDeK 5.0 provides bi-directional asynchronous data replication for data in FileMaker databases that are persistently connected to the Internet or used offline. The developer kit includes the new SyncDeK Developer Tool for configuration and maintenance, two set-up assistants for creating and editing the solution's replication and Version Update Management (VUM) settings, and access to an unlimited number of temporary activation keys for node set-up and testing.
Diversinet's Passport Trust Platform provides a new SDK together with platform components designed to simplify the provisioning of wireless credentials and to help create a security infrastructure for wireless data applications. The Passport Trust Platform includes a standards-based certificate management system; a provisioning server; a mobile client that can be embedded in wireless devices to generate, register, recover and revoke keys over the air; a suite of security APIs; a wireless VPN; and a small footprint wireless PKI for constrained device environments.
askSam has released an SDK for the askSam free-form database engine, letting you incorporate the full-text search and free-form database capabilities of askSam in applications that you create. Unlike structured databases, the askSam database engine does not require pre-defined structures or tables. It indexes all data stored in the database and allows full-text searches for any word or phrase. In addition, askSam supports a wide array of searches including searches of specific fields, Boolean searches, date searches, as well as proximity searches. The askSam SDK supports development in Visual Basic, ASP, C#, C++, and .NET.
Stottler Henke Associates has announced SimBionic 2.0, a visual programming tool designed to aid rapid development of software applications for simulation, automated training, decision support, and monitoring and control. SimBionic offers a visual editor that lets you specify application logic by drawing and configuring finite state machines and flow charts. The SimBionic engine executes behaviors by tracing through the nodes and links in the hierarchical finite state machines. The engine provides Java technology and C++ APIs, so you can embed it within applications running on a desktop or server.
AgenSoft has released Patch Factory 2.1 for Windows, a program that helps you create instant patch packages for software and file updating. Generated patch packages are small, self-extracting executables, with an adjustable multilingual user interface (English, German, Italian, French, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, Hungarian and Czech languages are available). New features include a Wizard mode, integrated compression technology, performance improvements, and a more open structure of output patch files.
Perforce Software has updated its Fast Software Configuration Management system to Version 2004.1, including two new visualization features. The revision graph feature in 2004.1 displays a tree-style graph representing the branching history of a specified file, including all file branch points, edits, and merges. The folder compare feature displays two folders side by side in expandable tree views, letting you compare folder structure (displaying which files have been added and deleted) and file contents.
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