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December 15, 2004
Dr. Dobb's Software Tools Newsletter - December 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.
Electric Cloud is shipping Electric Cloud 2.1, designed to speed software builds and improve network efficiency through peer-to-peer network communication, file compression, and support for multiCPU machines in the build cluster. At the core of Electric Cloud 2.1 is Electric Make, which is plug-compatible with existing Make-based build infrastructures so it can be deployed with little or no change to existing tools or environments. In order to ensure that parallel builds will not break, Electric Cloud has developed a dependency management system that monitors all files accessed during a build. Electric Cloud 2.1 records and reuses build dependency information, minimizing the Makefile maintenance required to achieve and maintain build performance.
LPSolver (Linear Programming Solver) is a Solver Add-on for OpenOffice.org and StarOffice. LpSolver can be used to solve complex linear, mixed integer, and binary optimization problems. It consists of linear programming libraries at the back end and spreadsheet documents at the front end. It is tailored for handling large, complex, one-of-a-kind problems that may require many revisions to establish an accurate model. By eliminating the need to think about purely technical machine-specific problems such as address calculations, storage assignments, subroutine linkage, and input-output and flow control, LPSolver increases the time available for conceptualizing and running the model, and analyzing the results.
The Portland Group has announced Version 5.2 of PGI Workstation, a suite of Fortran, C, and C++ compilers and development tools for scientists and engineers. The PGI compilers and tools can be used on Linux workstations, servers, and clusters based on AMD64 and IA32 processors to build high-performance computing applications for complex modeling and simulations in automotive crash testing, structural analysis, weather forecasting, geophysical processing, aerodynamic simulation, computational chemistry, and related fields.
X-Formation is offering LM-X, a license management solution for C and C++ software applications. It supports multiple licensing models out of the box and can be extended for greater functionality. Common applications include provision of hardware-locked, feature-based, and networked (floating) licenses. The solution implements strong public-key cryptography and can be integrated with AUTO-X, X-Formation's automated copy protection software.
Nikeware has released Version 1.30 of its text file visual comparison software, letting you see the differences between two text files in a split-screen view mode. Visual Comparer includes a text editor that supports both ANSI and Unicode files (separate versions are available for download) as well as syntax highlighting for most popular programming languages, including C++, C#, JavaScript, Perl, Visual Basic, VBScript, and Pascal (Delphi).
M7 is introducing NitroX for JSP, an Eclipse plug-in for Java developers building JSP-based web applications. When you begin new development or import an existing web application, NitroX scans the Java application logic, JSP files, Struts artifacts, web and configuration XML files, and resource bundles, building a database that is incrementally updated as you make changes to the web application. NitroX then provides the ability to debug all application layers starting with the JSP page, to step over JSP instructions in the page itself, to step into the code of a tag and debug into the Java layers used by the tag, to step into Struts artifact code, and to step back out to the page.
ComponentOne is offering ComponentOne Doc-To-Help 7.2 Professional, which is designed to create HTML Help, cross-platform HTML-based Help, JavaHelp, WinHelp, Microsoft Help 2.0, and printed documentation from a single set of Word documents. This new version includes Documenter for .NET, letting you automate .NET object model documentation and .NET application documentation; enhanced topic functions for adding topics and related topic links to projects instantaneously without rebuilding entire projects; and hyperlink usability.
Cape Clear Software is shipping Cape Clear 5, the latest release of the company's Enterprise Service Bus, which simplifies the integration of applications and data using a service-oriented architecture and web services. Version 5 introduces multiprotocol routing and messaging, enhanced data integration tools, extended support for building and scripting SOA and web services, improved enterprise management, BPEL-based composition and routing, and support for sophisticated security mechanisms, including digital signatures.
WhiteTown Wizards is a set of applications that converts DBF files to MDB (MS Access), SQL, XML (Extensible Markup Language), XLS (MS Excel), HTML and CSV (Comma-separated values). In addition, a special application can convert older, outdated DBF files to newer ones and fix their structures. The list of supported DBF formats includes dBase III, dBase IV, FoxPro, VFP, and dBase Level 7.
AccuSoft Corporation has updated its imaging toolkit, ImageGear for .NET, which supports reading, writing and conversion of images in 24 of the most popular formats. Formats supported by ImageGear for .NET include: BMP, CALS, CLP, DCX, DIB, EXIF, GIF, JPEG, MSP, PBM, PCD, PCX, PGM, PNG, PNM, PPM, PSD, SCITEX, SGI, TGA, and TIFF (Uncompressed, Group3, Group3/2D, Group4, Huffman, JPEG, LZW, Packbits, Deflate), and each can be configured using image control parameters. With an additional PDF module comes the ability to read and write PDF documents, making use of the 100 percent Adobe PDF libraries. For reading and writing of JPEG2000 format images, an optional module is also available. With full access to the file format metadata, this toolkit provides a fully-managed .NET solution with no dependencies on outside native code; there are no extra DLLs to ship or ActiveX controls to register.
Artix 2.1 is the latest version of IONA Technologies' web services integration software. In addition to operating on new platforms such as Windows Visual C 7.1 and Linux AS 3.0, the latest version of Artix features the ability to handle new payload formats and includes C++ context support, enhanced command-line tools, and an improved GUI. IONA has also released Orbacus 4.2 , a small footprint CORBA ORB for memory-constrained applications. The newest version of Orbacus includes enhanced support for Java applets and application servers, a new Leader-Follower communication concurrency model, and support for additional platforms, C++ compilers and JDK versions.
Cambridge Consultants has launched xIDE, a generic Integrated Development Environment that can be customized for embedded system and semiconductor companies to create software development kits for ASSP, structured ASIC, platform or SoC products. xIDE runs natively on Windows, Linux, UNIX, or Mac OSX. Its feature set can be customized for individual companies, and it can include an on-line help system, a multiple document text editor with syntax highlighting, a built-in scripting language (Python) to automate repetitive tasks, and support for managing embedded software development projects--using either a standard look-and-feel or an OEM-branded concept.
Accelation Software is offering OPSsuite, a GUI design software suite for developing screen-based database applications on OpenVMS. The screen designer software creates "portable libraries" that can be used on any computing platform. This is accomplished by using a platform-independent Form Definition Language (FDL) that adapts the visual interface to each platform. OPSsuite's runtime engine includes data validation, computation, and database access. OPSsuite can also be called from within complex external programs to provide access to a high-level user interface development tool.
Visual Object Modelers has released version 4.0 of its Visual UML product line with support for UML 2.0. The new version also features Office 2003 and Visual Studio.NET style user interface; a much improved Model Explorer; improved support for defining Interfaces and Ports; multiple object instances added to diagrams; improved support for profiles, stereotypes and tagged values; and several profiles, including for XML schema (XSD) and Cache database modeling.
GUIKit, Wolfram Research's latest technology release, is a Java-based toolkit for building UIs on top of Mathematica's computational, graphical, and language capabilities. GUIKit provides a high-level Mathematica expression syntax for defining graphical user interfaces, along with a runtime environment for managing and deploying these reusable definitions. GUIKit applications can be packaged for end users either as stand-alone client applications or integrated within a Mathematica session.
Enerjy Software has announced Edition 5b of its Java suite of tools. With the release of Edition 5b, all four of the tools in Enerjys line-up, which includes Enerjy Code Analyzer, Enerjy Memory Profiler, Enerjy Performance Profiler and Enerjy Thread Profiler, will now support Eclipse 3.0 and Japanese language developers. In addition, Edition 5b will offer support for Oracle JDeveloper 10g in Enerjy Code Analyzer.
Release 2.1.0 of the Neoxen Modus Product Development & Quality Assurance Methodology package brings native support for OpenOffice.org as well as Microsoft Word. Neoxen Modus is a methodology package compliant with ISO 9000/9001standards, CMM, Six Sigma, PMI PMBOK and Prince 2. It encompasses requirements management, design, implementation, testing, and change management, emphasising repeatable, automated build procedures and related roles.
Riflexo has developed JCredo JDO's latest plug-in for Oracle JDeveloper, making JCredo fully compatible with the Oracle production environment. Developers can modify all JCredo's specific runtime properties--such as database connections, performance options and other runtime settings--from Oracle JDeveloper's screen. The new plug-in automates the tasks of making a class (or a package) persistent or transient; enhancing persistence capable classes; editing JDO XML metadata and integrating both JDO-standard and JCredo-specific extensions; synchronizing a project's Java object model with the underlying database by creating or dropping database objects; and designing a JDOQL Query and previewing the results returned from the underlying datastore.
Aonix has developed AonixADT, an Eclipse-based Integrated Development Environment for the Ada language. AonixADT provides Ada project awareness, an Ada language sensitive editor with syntax color coding and template completion, and Ada language compile and build capabilities. Symbolic debugging is integrated within the editor. ADT project awareness allows full library hierarchy manipulation, and Ada program units can be inserted or removed from Ada projects. The build interface offers access to the Aonix ObjectAda compile and build capabilities.
WDI has released Redberri 6.0, a middleware technology platform that provides an open-standards-based integration suite. Redberri takes incoming data from outside sources in whatever format these sources happen to use, and passes it to the organization's internal systems for processing in their native format. Any responses or other actions that are required are translated back into the native format the outside sources use. Redberri's Map Builder feature eliminates coding by providing a point-and-click graphical user interface; as the mapping is done by the business user, Redberri automatically generates the code to perform that task. Redberri includes the source code as part of the software purchase.
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