Java Product News (February 16, 2001)

MicroStrategy SDK 7.1 supports Java

The latest release of the MicroStrategy SDK business intelligence platform, version 7.1, features a Java-based Web API (application programming interface) that enables developers to build applications on multiple platforms. These include IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, and Windows NT, and also Web application servers such as IBM WebSphere, iPlanet, and Apache Tomcat. MicroStrategy SDK 7.1 has an XML-based architecture, and its technical capabilities can be integrated into any existing Web, Windows, or wireless solution. The SDK simplifies application development with higher-level API helper objects that require less work to create and maintain code, and with a workbench application written in Active Server Pages and JavaServer Pages.

MicroStategy can be purchased at the company Website. A free evaluation and demo are also available.

https://www.microstrategy.com

BEA Java tools help create personalized e-commerce applications

BEA Systems has posted two new sample Java tools to its Developer Center, one for BEA WebLogic Commerce Server and one for WebLogic Personalization Server. The new sample code includes commerce portlets and an analyst tool; they are designed to make Java application development for commerce and personalization simpler and quicker. The new portlets help developers build multiapplication commerce portals for business-to-business, business-to-consumer, and business-to-employee applications. The new sample analyst tool minimizes the amount of maintenance and testing time required to change the business rules of sell-side e-commerce applications. It also reduces the number of steps required to view programming changes of user profiles and business rules.

Registered users of the BEA Developer Center have free access to the new sample code.

https://developer.bea.com

EspressChart offers new formatting and control-range options

Quadbase has released version 3.5 of EspressChart, which has new features for creating and configuring Java-based enterprise charting solutions. New chart options include vertical box charts, overlay combination charts, double-value line charts, and drop-bar charts. Custom features allow users to replace ticker labels with their own data labels, and also display time, date, and numeric formats differently, depending on where a chart is viewed. Users can export map files as output streams and specify the control range area for most two-dimensional charts. EspressChart, written in 100% Pure Java, supports most J2EE-compliant (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) application servers; it can be used on all major operating systems.

https://www.quadbase.com

Data Junction Integration Suite now supports JMS

The latest version of Data Junction’s Integration Suite now includes support for a Java Messaging Service (JMS) streaming data adapter. Users can thus read and write messages that are sent to and received from any messaging system with a JMS provider; the adapter works in conjunction with Data Junction’s existing adapters for MQSeries and MSMQ (Microsoft Message Queueing). JMS provides a single standard API that can be used to access the common features of multiple enterprise messaging systems. The Data Junction Integration Suite uses the Integration Engine that includes Java, COM, and C interfaces for integration with other programs.

https://www.datajunction.com

ISNetworks S/MIME Provider offers secure messaging

The S/MIME Provider for Java programmers includes a complete set of S/MIME functions that send signed and encrypted messages and that validate and decrypt messages. Designed to integrate with JavaMail 1.1.3 or 1.2 (the standard mail for Java programmers), S/MIME Provider enables secure messaging for commerce and communication on the Internet. The S/MIME Provider is a pure Java product that works with JDK 1.2.2 and 1.2.

A 30-day trial version can be downloaded from the company Website. Prices for development licenses start at 50 for the first developer.

https://www.isnetworks.com

JavaBean testing tool optimized to support IBM WebSphere

Empirix has developed Bean-test 3.1, a JavaBean testing tool that works with IBM WebSphere Application Server Version 3.5. It develops and improves the performance of Web applications that use Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) technologies. Bean-test is designed to test the scalability and functionality of EJB components. It tests every stage of the development and operation of EJBs, manages load testing, and reduces operational bottlenecks. WebSphere customers can use Bean-test to optimize the performance of their e-business applications. Bean-test 3.1 features:

• Auto-gen technology that automatically generates a multithreaded Java test client, specific to each EJB, to promote testing speed
• Accurate load generation that simulates real-world conditions to verify that each EJB component can scale to expected transaction levels without problems
• Extensive reports of response times and exceptions of the complete test, to pinpoint bottlenecks

Bean-test 3.1 supports Unix, Windows NT, and Linux platforms. It is available immediately and can be downloaded at the Empirix Website. Pricing for a typical configuration begins at 9,995.

https://www.empirix.com

https://www.ibm.com/websphere

iCluster gives IBM iSeries enhanced Java GUI

The enhanced Java GUI of DataMirror’s recently launched iCluster version 1.5 provides full support for IBM’s ClusterProven applications and gives users the ability to administer iSeries environments. The iCluster Java GUI provides configuration capabilities, realtime status, and access to event logs, all from a single station. iCluster 1.5 incorporates all the performance features of DataMirror’s High Availability Suite, including XtremeCache, Match/Merge and realtime IFS mirroring technology; customers thus have rapid access to business-critical systems. iCluster 1.5 works in conjunction with ClusterProven applications to provide the automatic detection of system failures and to ensure smooth failovers if the primary node fails.

iCluster 1.5 and an iCluster trial version are available immediately.

https://www.datamirror.com

https://www-4.ibm.com/software/

Compoze Software’s EJB component integrates with Allaire JRun 3.0

Compoze Software has released the Harmony Component Suite, Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) components based on the J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) standard; the suite runs on the Allaire JRun 3.0 application server. It is designed to speed enterprise application development and reduce the time to market. The combined use of the Harmony Component Suite and Allaire JRun application offers component functionality such as scheduling, calendaring, and content management. The Harmony Component Suite is a collection of domain-specific EJBs critical to application development, including CRM, sales-force automation, time tracking, and groupware.

The Compoze Harmony Component Suite is available immediately.

https://www.compoze.com

https://www.allaire.com/jrun

FuegoApp speeds telecom companies’ end-to-end business integration

Fuegotech has released its first FuegoApp template, the FuegoApp Pic Care Order Management application, designed to help simplify telecommunication company procedures to change long distance service. The application — created on the FuegoBMP platform and built in coordination with DSET — can integrate DSET’s ezLongDistance gateway. This enables electronic bonding between local phone companies and long distance carriers, with any order-management or switch-provisioning system. FuegoApp templates help companies to leverage existing software in deploying business processes and to increase the efficiency of those processes.