NobleNet Unveils Nouveau
NobleNet Inc. has announced the launch of Nouveau, a distributed application development environment designed to automate the generation and integration of CORBA, COM, Java, and RPC-based applications. Nouveau supports C, C++, Java, ActiveX, and 4GLs. Also, Nouveau is compatible with the Microsoft COM object model used by Visual Basic, Visual C++, and ActiveX programmers, and supports ORBs that meet CORBA 2.0 specifications. Additionally, Nouveau provides RPC access to legacy applications, procedural-programming interfaces, databases, devices, and compute engines.
Nouveau supports Windows 95/NT, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, IBM-AIX, and SCO-UNIX. A single license costs $5,000 with additional licenses costing $1,500 each. Concurrent user licenses are charged per application server and are based on the number of simultaneous users. For more information, contact NobleNet, Inc., 800.809.8988 or +1.508.460.8222; fax +1.508.460.3456; sales@noblenet.com; www.noblenet.com.
Intertop Releases I-Xpresso v2.1
Intertop Corporation has released i-Xpresso v2.1, an IDE for developing Internet applications that combines client and server development components in a single environment. In this release, the JVM v1.1 floating point inaccuracy has been resolved without the addition of third-party class libraries. Also, the Preserve and Resume feature allows the developer to return to the original design without having to reload the project. Other new features include Deployment Configuration for recording the deployment configuration file for each project, and No-Save-Compile that offers the option not to save a project during the compile process.
i-Xpresso v2.1 costs $995. For more information, contact Intertop Corporation, 888.873.2420 or +1.408.873.2400; fax +1.408.873.2428; sales@intertop.com; www.intertop.com.
ICS Announces Builder Xcessory PRO 5.0
Integrated Computer Solutions has released Builder Xcessory PRO 5.0, a new release of the company's integrated visual development product suite that allows Unix developers to deploy applications on multiple platforms including the Web, and Windows 95/98/NT. Builder Xcessory PRO 5.0 offers enhanced support for managing large projects, integration of third-party widgets, and user C++ components, support for C++ GUI development, and support for Java AWT 1.1.
Builder Xcessory PRO supports Unix systems from Sun, HP, IBM, DEC, and SGI. A floating license with one year of support costs $6,495. For more information, contact Integrated Computer Solutions (ICS), +1.617.621.0060; fax +1.617.621.9555; info@ics.com; www.ics.com.
Distinct Provides the Distinct Dialup-Networking Framework Toolkit
Distinct Corporation has announced the release of the Distinct Dialup-Networking Framework Toolkit, a communications toolkit that provides protocol writers with a framework for writing protocols for the Windows environment. The toolkit features plug-and-play technology to simplify the API to the developers. The framework can be used to write different types of protocols, but focuses on writing serial line protocols and providing the client-side library for these protocols. The toolkit ships with a full-featured scripting API and two major source-code samples for SLIP and PPP.
The Dialog Networking Toolkit costs $995.00. For information on five or more licenses, contact Distinct Corporation, +1.408.366.8933; fax +1.408.366.0153; sales@distinct.com; www.distinct.com.
Compuware Ships NuMega TrueTime Java and C++ Editions, NuMega DevPartner for VC++
Compuware Corporation has released three new products: NuMega TrueTime Java Edition, NuMega TrueTime C++ Edition, and NuMega DevPartner for Visual C++. TrueTime Java Edition automatically locates performance bottlenecks in applications and components written in Java. TrueTime for C++ is a performance analysis tool for applications and components written in C++. DevPartner, which includes TrueTime for C++ and NuMega's run-time error detection and debugging tool Boundschecker, enables developers to automatically detect, diagnose, and promote the correction of software errors and performance bottlenecks in components and applications developed in Microsoft's Visual C++.
TrueTime Java Edition is available for $399. Customers with a SmartSubscription for DevPartner Studio will automatically receive TrueTime Java Edition free. TrueTime C++ Edition also costs $399. DevPartner costs $699. For more information, contact Compuware Corporation, 800.521.9353 or +1.248.737.7639; fax +1.248.737.7623; www.compuware.com.
Addison Releases Reveal v2.0
Addison Software Inc. has released Reveal v2.0, an upgrade of their system-debugging product. The Reveal Debugging System is used for diagnosing component failures within the Windows operating systems. Reveal uncovers component mismatches, missing OCXs, missing DLLs, lost or damaged files, and other component failures. Version 2 includes Rescue, a debugging and analysis program used to diagnose installation and component problems remotely. Reveal runs under Windows 95, 98 and NT.
For more information, contact Addison Software Inc., +1.972.662.1147; fax +1.972.307.3396; info@addisonsw.com; www.addisonsw.com.
EST Ships visionCLICK 7.0
Embedded Support Tools Corporation has released version 7 of its source-level debugger visionCLICK. visionCLICK 7.0 supports the debugging of real-time, embedded, PowerPC, ColdFire, and 68300 family microprocessors. It features a GUI that incorporates visionCLICK's drag-and-drop capabilities, pop-up menus and tooltips, customizable toolbars, and windows for symbol and real-time operating system browsing.
Version 7 features the Instruction Set Simulator, which allows developers to load and test code without any hardware. The Instruction Set Simulator allows simulation of instruction and data cache, I/O and internal/external interruption simulation, trace display with timestamp, and full task-awareness.
A free fully functional demo is available at the EST website. For pricing and other information, contact Embedded Support Tools Corporation (EST Corp.), 800.957.5588 or +1.781.828.5588; fax +1.781.821.2268; www.estc.com.
Chant Announces SpeechKit v2
Chant Inc. has released SpeechKit v2, component software for adding speech recognition and speech synthesis (text-to-speech) capabilities to desktop and web-enabled applications. Chant component software works with applications developed using RAD environments such as Inprise development environments, IBM VisualAge, and Microsoft Visual Studio. In addition, SpeechKit v2 supports ANSI single-byte, multi-byte, and Unicode characters that enable applications to support multiple languages and locales. Software command and message text is externalized to allow for localization in any language.
SpeechKit v2 works with speech recognition and text-to-speech engines that support Microsoft Speech API (version 2 and higher), IBM Speech Manager API (version 3 and higher), VoiceType, and ViaVoice. SpeechKit v2 runs on Windows 95, 98 and NT.
SpeechKit v2 for Visual Studio retails for $399.00. For more information, contact Chant Inc., +1.310.410.9895; fax +1.310.410.9896; online@chant.net; www.chant.net.
Sybase Announces PowerBuilder 6.5 and PowerJ 2.5
Sybase has announced two new development tools: PowerBuilder 6.5, an enterprise development tool, and PowerJ 2.5, a Java-based enterprise development tool. These releases deliver reduced development and deployment costs through the integration of existing applications and data with new web technologies. PowerBuilder 6.5 enables users to rapidly build distributed web applications in one environment. New features include WYSIWYG HTML editing, website management, web page generation, physical data modeling, and JavaBean Proxy and COM component generation. PowerJ 2.5 is an enterprise development tool for building distributed web applications. New features include WYSIWYG HTML editing, website management, client- and server-side javascript editing and debugging, web application generation, physical data modeling, support for JDK 1.1.6 and easy JDK switching, and integrated support for JFC, including Swing components.
PowerBuilder 6.5 costs $2,995 per developer for Windows 95 and NT. PowerJ 2.5 costs $1,495 per developer for Windows 95 and NT. For more information, contact Sybase, Inc., 800.879.2273 or +1.510.922.3555; www.sybase.com.
Imperial Launches Visaj 2.0
Imperial Software Technology has announced Visaj 2.0, a major new version of its visual application builder for Java. Visaj was created to enhance the developer's productivity for building pure Java applications. Visaj 2.0 is written entirely in Java and runs on all platforms, including Unix, Windows NT, Windows 95, and the Apple Macintosh. Visaj 2.0 incorporates support for JFC (Java Foundation Class) Swing components, a new rich set of layout editors, an image editor, graphical hot-wiring of events, and JavaBean serialization. Visaj's open environment runs anywhere and also supports JDK 1.1.x, integrates visible and invisible beans, and works with IDEs such as Sun's Java Workshop. It complements the user's choice of IDE by providing advanced visual building capabilities often lacking in standard IDEs.
Visaj 2.0 Standard starts at $495 for the first license and includes 30 days of support. Visaj ProPack 2.0 starts at $995 for the first license and includes a year of email support, fixes, downloadable point releases, and major upgrades. For more information, contact Imperial Software Technology (IST), +1.650.688.0200; sales@ist.co.uk; www.ist.co.uk.
Riverton Software Ships HOW 2.0 for Java
Riverton Software Corporation has shipped HOW 2.0 for Java, the company's component modeling and deployment tool. HOW for Java automatically generates Java classes, including JavaBeans, into Java development environments such as Sun Microsystems Java WorkShop, Microsoft Visual J++, Sybase PowerJ, IBM VisualAge, Borland JBuilder, and Symantec Visual Cafe. HOW-built Java components are 100 percent pure Java and can execute on remote servers, using either DCOM or CORBA as their distribution protocol.
HOW 2.0 Professional Edition for Java is available for $2,995. The Enterprise Edition, which includes language cartridges for Visual Basic, Java, and PowerBuilder, is available for $3,995. A Modeling Edition, which provides all of HOW's modeling tools but offers no component generation capability, costs $1,995. HOW 2.0 Learning Edition is available free from the company's website. For more information, contact Riverton Software Corporation, www.riverton.com.
ActiveX Solution Turns Software into Secure Trials
Modern Software Publishing has announced Modern TrialX, a product for creating secure trials of full versions of publishers' software without additional coding. The Trial Control in Modern TrialX meters software access and usage, denying access when the authorization limits are exceeded. The Modern TrialX Extension Control creates extensions and registration codes that convert trials into salable products immediately. Copies of programs that use Modern TrialX become trials as well, since the access limitations in the original trial version are carried over to new copies, helping to prevent piracy.
There are four editions of Modern TrialX: Preview, Standard, Developer, and Professional. Pricing varies by edition, starting at $99 for the Standard Edition. For more information, contact Modern Software Publishing, Inc., +1.860.963.1071; info@modernsoftware.com; www.modernsoftware.com.
MigraTEC Launches Y2K Tool for Desktop Applications
MigraTEC Inc. has released MigraTEC 2000, a Year 2000 software tool for analysis and remediation of desktop and client/server applications written in C and C++. MigraTEC 2000 minimizes false positives and provides pertinent information to the user. It uses compiler parsing techniques to provide accurate results and identify the propagation effects of the dates. MigraTEC 2000 also implements predefined code constructs into the code during the remediation process to increase standardization.
MigraTEC 2000 costs $5,000 per workstation, plus a line-of-code usage fee. For more information, contact MigraTEC Inc., +1.972.969.0300; fax +1.972.969.0315; www.migratec.com.
Communication Horizons Releases NetLib 3.0 SEC for 16-Bit Platforms
Communication Horizons has released NetLib 3.0 Security Encryption Component (SEC) for 16-bit platforms. NetLib SEC provides security for most 16-bit Windows platforms including FoxPro, Delphi 1 and 2, Visual Basic 3 and 4, and Visual C++ 1.5x. NetLib SEC is designed to give high performance with large, random-access database files. Data is decrypted as needed only in the workstation's memory, never on disk or in transit on the network. Although designed for use with databases, NetLib SEC can protect any kind of file, including document, graphic, multimedia, and text files. It can also protect individual fields and strings.
A single-developer, 20-user license costs $399.00. For more pricing and other information, contact Communication Horizons, 800.480.1604 or +1.203.656.0448; fax +1.203.655.4049; maureenw@netlib.com; www.netlib.com.
SandStone Technology Announces Visual Parse++ v3.0
SandStone Technology has released Visual Parse++ v3.0, a product that allows the programmer to develop a parser in a visual environment. New to version 3 is natural language parsing. Visual Parse++ provides full support for C++, Java, Delphi, and ActiveX (Visual Basic). All support is native to the chosen environment. The C++ and Java classes are fully portable to any platform. Visual Parse++ supports DBCS and Unicode.
The professional edition (includes source code) costs $495.00. A free trial can be downloaded from the company's website. For more pricing and other information, contact SandStone Technology Inc., +1.619.454.9404; fax +1.619.454.9467; www.sand-stone.com.
Riverace Announces ACE 4.5
Riverace Corporation has released ACE 4.5, a class library that simplifies development of higher performace, distributed, concurrent software for the internet and intranets. Release 4.5 features support for HP-UX in both 32- and 64-bit models, and improved support for LynxOS, Chorus, Red Hat Linux, and the egcs compiler.
ACE is open-source software, and the source kit is available at no cost on the company's website. For more information, contact Riverace Corporation, +1.508.541.9180; fax +1.508.541.9185; info@riverace.com; www.riverace.com.
ForeFront Releases ForeHelp 3 and ForeHelp Premier 98
ForeFront, Inc. has announced ForeHelp 3 and ForeHelp Premier 98, upgrades of the company's help authoring software products. Premier 98 includes an indexing application, a development tool that keeps dialog-box help synchronized with software applications, and a content management system for creating help in both Windows 98 and Windows 95 formats from one database. ForeHelp 3 includes many new project organizing and reporting features.
ForeHelp 3 retails for $395. Premier 98 Suite, which includes ForeHelp 3, costs $699. ForeFront is offering a "Try Premier" competitive upgrade until December 1998. For $399, users of competing help authoring software can upgrade to Premier 98. The competitive upgrade includes a money-back guarantee within 30 days. A free evaluation copy is available from the company website. For more information, contact ForeFront, Inc., 800.357.8507 or +1.303.499.9181; fax +1.303.494.5446; info@ff.com; www.ff.com.
Aonix Announces Validator/Req
Aonix has released Validator/Req, a requirements modeling tool that prevents errors in requirements and generates specification-based tests. The automatic test case generator applies heuristic and algorithmic means to basic requirements information to create test cases following all five design techniques: action-, data-, logic-, event-, and state-driven. Validator/Req can be set to generate the fewest test cases that will exercise every specified requirement for the most probable errors, or set to generate a larger number of tests to check for robustness.
For pricing and other information, contact Aonix, 800.972.6649 or +1.415.543.0900; fax +1.415.543.0145; info@aonix.com; www.aonix.com.
Formida Releases Formida Fire 3.0
Formida Software has released Formida Fire 3.0, a suite of tools and components used to build applications that visualize information. Fire creates and enhances applications that integrate extended data types across multiple platforms. This data ranges from spatial, CAD, images, audio, and video, to real-time events such as GPS signaling. Formida Fire 3.0 tools and components support SQL92, HTTP, ActiveX, Java, and application and data-server interfaces to legacy systems.
Prices start at $2,500 for a developer toolkit. For more information, contact Formida Software, 888.736.7643 or +1.408.558.3200; fax +1.408.879.7521; info@formida.com; www.formida.com.
Genesis Ships ControlView Suite
Genesis has announced the release of the ControlView Suite, a collection of controls for the C and C++ WIN32 programmer. The ControlView Suite includes a grid, graph, tab, calendar, and tree control. The entire software suite is combined into one DLL to simplify distribution and reduce the footprint. ControlView Suite can be used with other controls, such as MS edit, combobox, listbox, static, and window classes. It can also be used with ActiveX controls.
ControlView Suite costs $295 and includes a developer's kit with sample code and online documentation. For more information, contact Genesis Business Management Software, +1.713.728.8258; www.genesisbusiness.com.
Paladin Announces Class++
Paladin Software, Inc. has released Class++, a C++ class generator, which can generate new classes with a minimum of editing. Class++ supports unlimited class templates that can be tailored to specific compilers and class libraries. Changes to template elements, such as the class name, are immediately propagated throughout both the class header and implementation files. Included sample templates demonstrate abstract and concrete classes with and without MFC support. Templates can be edited visually or by directly programming the simple embedded Class Markup Language that defines template fields, field relationships, and textual content.
Class++ is available from the company website for $29. For more information, contact Paladin Software, Inc., +1.760.789.9530; fax +1.760.789.9533; sales@paladinsoftware.com; www.paladinsoftware.com.
Red Hat Offers Red Hat Linux 5.1
Red Hat Software has released Linux 5.1, an upgrade that includes enhanced installation features, system configuring, web caching, window management features, and a CD of applications for Linux. Version 5.1 allows a choice among many languages during installation. It also includes a true Fortran77 compiler as part of its egcs compiler package.
Red Hat Linux 5.1 costs $49.95. For more information, contact Red Hat Software, Inc., 888.733.4281 or +1.919.547.0012; fax +1.919.547.0024; sales@redhat.com; www.redhat.com.
Black & White Software Releases Object/LM 1.1
Black & White Software has announced the latest version of Object/LM, a product supporting usage control in a CORBA environment. Release 1.1 supports leading CORBA implementations, including Inprise Corporation's VisiBroker for Java and C++, and IONA Technologies' OrbixWeb and Orbix. Object/LM controls object usage and access based upon customer-defined usage policies. Object/LM also provides metering capabilities, allowing owners of software assets to monitor usage activity and bill users accordingly.
Object/LM fully conforms to the OMG's CORBA licensing and metering specification. It supports Access Control to manage the authorized usage of objects (including enforcement of licensing policies on software components), and Usage Metering to measure the utilization of objects (typically for usage billing purposes such as pay-per-view). The standard CORBA IDL interface is implemented along with additional administration and metering interfaces. Object/LM utilizes the Internet standard IIOP communication protocol, and includes a plug-in security and authentication module to prevent tampering with the usage control mechanism.
Access Control determines who has access to information and services. Object/LM's graphical tools can be used to define and administer policies for a number of access control schemes. For example, an organization can grant usage of its services to specific members. Some less privileged users might only be allowed to use a service outside peak demand periods while others might have limitations on how long they can use the service. Access control can also be applied to the enforcement of software license agreements. Policies can be implemented to support any licensing scheme (floating, node-locked, time-limited, etc.)
Usage Metering measures the level of usage of information and services. Object/LM supports popular schemes such as ''gas metering'' and ''postage metering.'' For example, an Internet information broker can bill for the access of data based on the report type, or a telecommunications provider can measure the time and quality of service of phone calls. Metering control solutions also extend to problems such as toll roads, medical services, and pay-per-view TV. Object/LM supports metering through the use of grants. Users may obtain access to a service with constraints, such as time limit, a predetermined number of allowed units or invocations, or a fixed number of concurrent allowed invocations. Object/LM uses a system of abstract units to account for the cost of use. These units can later map into currency or other abstract measures.
Object/LM is a member of Black & White's portfolio of products for CORBA-based development, diagnostics and deployment. Release 1.1 is available now for Windows and Unix platforms, Java and C++ languages, and VisiBroker and Orbix ORBs. Pricing is based on platform and deployment configuration.
For more information contact Black & White Software, Inc., +1.408.369.7400; fax +1.408.369.7406; info@blackwhite.com; www.blackwhite.com.