Java Product News (updated September 12, 2003)

Hoplo combines CATiX and ARIALiX

September 12 — Hoplo has meshed two of its Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications to form the Albacore Business Suite. The suite consists of the CATiX catalog management/e-commerce system and the ARIALiX marketing tools.

https://www.albacorebusiness.com

jXMLGateway gives XML access

September 12 — jXMLGateway has released version 2.1 of its jXMLGateway product. jXMLGateway includes a Web-based management interface and provides an alternative to Remote Method Invocation (RMI) by creating an instant XML gateway that allows XML-over-HTTP(s)-based access to your Java methods and constructors.

https://www.jxmlgateway.com/home.jsp

Oracle opens up J2EE 1.4

September 12 — Oracle has made available the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.4 Developer Preview. The preview is downloadable from the Oracle Technology Network.

https://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/index.html?2271909.html

Chat away with DeskNow MJ

September 12 — DeskNow has announced DeskNow MJ, a Jabber/Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) instant messaging server component that can be integrated into Java applications to provide fully programmable secure chats and real-time alerts. DeskNow MJ includes a full Jabber client applet that can be used in any Webpage.

http://www.desknow.com/desknowmj

Roxes offers tasks for Ant

September 12 — Roxes Technologies provides three open source custom Ant tasks with Roxes Ant Tasks 1.0. The suite includes: sfx, which creates native self-extracting executables out of zip archives; jstub, which creates native executables for Windows, Mac OS X, and Unix out of a working jar archive; and jnlp, which simplifies the development of Java Network Launching Protocol (JNLP) files for Java Web Start.

https://www.roxes.com/produkte/rat.html

Apache boosts Turbine and Torque

September 5 — The Turbine 2.3 Web application framework includes a completely overhauled templating engine and no longer supports WebMacro, Freemarker, or Castor. It uses Maven as its build tool and commons-logging and commons-configuration.

http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine

Torque is a persistence layer originally developed as part of Turbine; it has since been decoupled, and the final release of Torque 1.3 is now available. It uses stratum lifecycle interfaces and commons-logging, and runtime and generation environments have been separated.

http://db.apache.org/torque

Sims Computing advances Flux 5.0 Job Scheduler

September 5 — Sims Computing’s Flux 5.0 Job Scheduler now functions as a standalone job scheduler. It has a new desktop graphical user interface (GUI) you can use to create, edit, and monitor jobs. Other enhancements include improved dependencies between jobs, job queuing, and default error handler.

http://www.simscomputing.com

IconAge delivers JWin Express Enterprise

September 5 — IconAge’s JWin Express Enterprise allows the delivery of Java applications to Microsoft Windows platforms in familiar formats. JWin Express Enterprise lets developers and publishers create a Win32 native executable, a Win32 Native Service, Control Panel Applet, or a MMC Snap-in out of their Java application. The product also offers integrated licensing, error handling, usage management, and update management.

http://www.iconage.com

Windward Studios breezes into report generation

August 29 — Windward Studios has unleashed Windward Reports 1.2, a Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) report engine. Windward Reports 1.2 generates reports from XML data to PDF, RTF, HTML, and text export formats and now includes a Remote Method Invocation (RMI) server and client.

https://www.windwardreports.com

JuggerNET meshes Java and .Net

August 29 — Codemesh has released the commercial version of JuggerNET, a Java-.Net integration solution. JuggerNET generates .Net proxy classes for accessing Java classes, and the JuggerNET runtime library completes all Java-.Net interoperations.

https://www.codemesh.com

JInspired pumps up JDBInsight 2.0

August 29 — JInspired’s JDBInsight 2.0 Early Access (EA) 2 is now available. The product has undergone user interface improvements along with increased server platform support. JDBInsight offers SQL analysis and tracks memory allocation, blocking, and waiting, and garbage collection at the transaction execution path level.

https://www.jinspired.com

Metanology produces two new MDE tools

August 22 — Joining the existing MDE (model-driven development environment) for Struts, Metanology has introduced MDE for EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) and MDE for J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition). Metanology’s MDE includes a UML (Unified Modeling Language) modeler and a MetaProgram editor that integrate with a Java IDE to build J2EE applications. MDE for EJB creates session beans, entity beans, message-driven beans, business objects, and value objects from simple UML models. MDE for J2EE enhances MDE for Struts and MDE for EJB by connecting the Struts user interface to EJB services.

http://www.metanology.com

Cotsec generates forms

August 22 — Cotsec now offers Cotsec Forms, a framework for generating forms-based applications in Swing, Struts, and Eclipse SWT.

https://www.cotsec.com/product/index.html

Salmon’s SOFIA swims forward

August 22 — Salmon has released Salmon Open Framework for Internet Applications (SOFIA) 2.0. SOFIA is an open source toolset for building database-driven Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) or Swing Set applications. SOFIA 2.0 includes extended Swing Set components, declarative data validation rules in SOFIA models, support for Ingres, Postgres, and Firebird SQL engines, and integration with log4j and JDK 1.4 logging.

https://www.salmonllc.com/sofia

Versant upgrades Versant Real-Time Framework

August 22 — Versant’s Versant Real-Time Framework (VRTF) consists of an integrated transaction manager and a suite of agents that connect the VRTF to systems such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Version 3.0 adds support for open XML agents and Web services.

https://www.versant.com

Rogue Wave Software delivers interoperable Web services

August 22 — Rogue Wave Software’s Lightweight Enterprise Integration Framework (LEIF) 1.2 enables Web services functionality for C/C++ applications, allowing interoperability with .Net and Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications. Features in LEIF 1.2 include: Graphical user interface (GUI) Project Wizard, pluggable protocols, XML document validation, and improved error handling and support of Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) faults.

http://www.roguewave.com/products/leif

FWA Software integrates Struts 1.1 tag libraries

August 22 — FWA Software has released Visual Tags for Struts, an extension suite for Dreamweaver MX. Visual Tags for Struts integrates Struts 1.1 tag libraries with Dreamweaver MX, providing text-based creation and editing of JavaServer Pages (JSP) pages that contain Struts tags.

https://www.fwasi.com/products