More than 100 companies display their wares at the Java Enterprise Solutions Symposium in Paris April 26, 1999 — IBM and Groupe Euriware will be among the more than 100 companies exhibiting at the Java Enterprise Solutions Symposium (JESS ’99) developers’ conference in Paris starting Tuesday.IBM will be showing off its full line of Java products, including its speedy new Java virtual machine for Windows, according to Daniele Mason, public relations manager at IBM Software France.Paris-based Euriware will be on hand to show how, because of Java, it has been able to port its Rex knowledge management software to secure intranets, according to company spokeswoman Cecile Marelle. “We’ve been able to incorporate an architecture to which everyone adapts easily,” Marelle said. “It’s an easier product to install when the interface [a browser] is so familiar.”Sun Microsystems officials in France were not immediately available to comment on whether or not they will announce a release date for Sun.net, a product that Sun has used internally with its own extranet for some time.Sun.net offers Internet-based remote access for mobile workers and extranet users without the need to install any client software other than a browser. For example, an employee traveling on business without a laptop can access corporate networks via any browser-enabled PC. Once employees have logged on and passed authentication procedures, they can access a host of office-based applications including e-mail and faxes. Sun said in 1998 that the Java-based software was due to ship in the first quarter of this year. Software Development