Java Product News (updated May 23, 2003)

Zero G announces update to InstallAnywhere

May 23 — Install Anywhere 5.5, Zero G’s software development solution, is now available. The latest version includes features designed for enterprise applications.

https://www.ZeroG.com

IBM releases new tools under Rational brand

May 23 — IBM has launched the Rational products Rapid Developer, XDE Developer, and XDE Tester. Rapid Developer is a rapid application development environment for building J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) applications. XDE Developer is a modeling tool, and XDE Tester automatically tests Java and Web applications.

http://www.rational.com/index.jsp?SMSESSION=NO

AquaFold enhances database tool

May 23 — AquaFold has updated Aqua Data Studio, its universal database tool for building, managing, and maintaining enterprise relational databases, to version 3.0. Developed with Java, the latest version features a table data editor, SQL writing automation features, better syntax coloring, and more.

https://www.aquafold.com/index.html

Instantiations releases CodePro Express

May 23 — Instantiations has announced its newest software tool for Java development. CodePro Express enhances the developement tools in IBM WebSphere Application Server-Express and Eclipse.

http://www.instantiations.com/codepro/

Jess 6.1 now available

May 23 — The latest release of Jess, a lightweight rule engine and scripting environment for Java, is available for download. Version 6.1 includes nested conditional elements, new Java APIs for the logical facility, faster rule compilation, and more.

https://herzberg.ca.sandia.gov/jess

Swingtide introduces new products

May 23 — Swingtide has launched Swingtide Monitor and Swingtide Scorecard, products for helping businesses build networks of XML Web services. Swingtide Monitor monitors the growth and business usage of heterogeneous XML networks. Swingtide Scorecard is a methodology for accelerating the return on investment from XML Web services.

https://www.swingtide.com/

wx4j provides Java GUI toolkit

May 23 — wx4j 0.1.0 is now available. This Java binding for wxWindows provides a Java GUI (graphical user interface) toolkit using native widgets.

https://www.wx4j.org/

Wolfram Research updates webMathematica

May 23 — webMathematica from Wolfram Research is a tool for building Web applications with the Mathematica technology. Version 2.0 includes Mathematica 4.2 and an HTML templating mechanism based on JavaServer Pages (JSP) custom tags.

https://www.wolfram.com/products/webmathematica/index.html

Quest launches performance-tuning suite

May 16 — Quest Software has introduced Quest Central for J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition), a set of tools that detects, diagnoses, and resolves performance issues. Three tools make up Quest Central for J2EE: Foglight, a monitoring product that monitors every component affecting application performance; PerformaSure, a J2EE diagnostic tool for analyzing live transactions in distributed systems; and JProbe, a performance-tuning toolkit for optimizing Java application code.

https://www.quest.com/

Fair Isaac updates Blaze Advisor

May 16 — Blaze Advisor 5.0 is the new release of Fair Isaac’s business rules management software. Written in Java, the software system develops, tests, deploys, and maintains business rules. Version 5.0 features the ability to build graphical representations of decision trees, showing paths of decisions leading to one or more business actions.

https://www.fairisaac.com

Novell ships exteNd Application Server 5

May 16 — Novell’s exteNd Application Server provides a foundation for deploying applications built with the Novell exteNd Web application development suite. The server features a robust deployment platform, high-productivity development tools, and support for the latest industry standards.

https://www.novell.com/products/extend/appserver/

Teamstudio enhances audit tool

May 16 — Teamstudio has launched Edition 3 of Teamstudio Analyzer for Java, its best-practices audit tool for Java developers. Edition 3 includes an automatic fix feature and 192 rules that address coding issues such as standards compliance, unused elements, common coding errors, and J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) compliance.

https://www.teamstudio.com

toolsfactory introduces class visualization tool

May 16 — toolsfactory has announced ClassViz, a tool for class hierarchy visualization and printing. The tool parses any Java source code and development projects, and visualizes class hierarchies.

https://www.toolsfactory.com/classviz.html

PASSOLO Add-In now available

May 16 — PASS Engineering has introduced a new PASSOLO Add-In. The tool offers extended localization support for Java software.

https://www.passolo.com/site/us/home.htm

Kobu.Com announces free Java chat program

May 16 — Kobu.Com has released HonkyTalk, a free Java application that enables voice conversation over the Internet between two or more PCs.

https://www.kobu.com/honkytalk/index-en.html

Borland releases JBuilder 9

May 9 — The latest version of JBuilder, Borland Software’s IDE, includes Optimizeit Suite 5.5, Borland’s performance assurance solution. JBuilder 9 also includes StarTeam for version control and configuration management capabilities, the Together Edition modeling tool, enhanced Web services support, and an integrated solution for building mobile Java applications for MIDP (Mobile Information Device Profile) devices.

https://www.borland.com/jbuilder/index.html

Q-Link enhances J2EE platform

May 9 — Q-Link has introduced version 5.0 of its application development platform for developing J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) applications. Q-Link 5.0 includes a new application model with an abstraction layer that enables developers to visually assemble complete applications based on business constructs, not J2EE code; a suite of integrated business process management services; and an architecture built on J2EE, XForms, and XPath.

https://www.qlinktech.com/products_overview.shtml

Jini Decision Process approves first standard

May 9 — The ServiceUI API has been approved by the Jini Decision Process (JDP). Contributed by Artima Software and developed by more than 40 Jini community members, ServiceUI provides a standard for attaching user interfaces to individual Jini-based services.

https://serviceui.jini.org

Sunopsis updates data integration tool

May 9 — Sunopsis is a 100 percent Java data integration product that addresses data replication, data synchronization, ETL (extraction, transformation, and loading), data warehousing, and application integration needs. Version 3.1 automatically detects changes in the data sources, supports SAP and Oracle applications, and features a workflow design and visualization module.

http://www.sunopsis.com/corporate/us/

Daffodil Software announces database products

May 9 — Daffodil Software Limited has released Daffodil DB Embedded Edition 2.0 and Daffodil DB Network Edition 2.0. Daffodil DB is an embeddable and lightweight Java-based relational database engine built in compliance with SQL 99 and JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) 3.0.

https://www.daffodilwoods.com/

Dirig updates performance management platform

May 2 — Dirig 4.0 is a Web application performance management solution from Dirig Software. This latest version introduces Dirig Performance Center for graphical monitoring of applications with one view. Dirig 4.0 also includes updates to Dirig PathFinder and Dirig Agent.

https://www.dirig.com/index.html

EJB Solutions enhances Out-of-the-Box

May 2 — Out-of-the-Box 2.0 is now available from EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) Solutions. The open source development and deployment environment for Java developers includes a new graphical installer for selective and incremental installation/uninstallation, built-in project knowledge base, 350-page user guide, and more.

https://www.ejbsolutions.com/

Koalog Code Coverage analyzes test suite efficiency

May 2 — Koalog has announced Koalog Code Coverage 1.1, a code coverage computation application written in Java. The tool allows developers to measure test suite efficiency and discover dead code in a project.

https://www.koalog.com/php/kover.php

Xoetrope launches mobile/desktop framework

May 2 — XUI 1.0, an open source Java framework for building lightweight mobile and desktop applications, is now available for download.

https://www.xoetrope.net

Clustered JDBC now available

May 2 — ObjectWeb has released Clustered JDBC, open source Java middleware that offers transparent database clustering through Java Database Connectivity.

https://www.objectweb.org/c-jdbc/index.html