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AS OF 7/20/2008 5:25PM EST
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July 15, 2005 —
SAN FRANCISCO — Many new and improved tools for developing Java applications made their appearance at Sun Microsystems’ JavaOne conference in late June.
The new version of DataMirror’s PointBase mobile Java relational database supports larger data types and has better query performance, according to the company. It also lets applications exercise more control over the database. DataMirror says support for the larger data types makes it possible to perform more precise calculations. Applications can explicitly lock database tables to reduce deadlocks and wait times.
Justsystem, which is known for building the Ichitaro Japanese word processor and the ATOK Japanese language inputting system, introduced an integrated XML editor called xfy, along with two associated development tools. xfy Basic Edition 1.0 is designed to help developers author and edit complex documents containing diverse XML vocabularies. The beta is available now; the software is scheduled to be released in October. xfy Basic Edition is the core of the xfy suite, designed as the starter set for compound XML document handling. xfy Basic Edition contains three major components: XML Document Authoring, XML Application Runtime and
XML Development Environment. These systems are complemented with two developer tools due later this year: xfy Developer’s Toolkit and xfy View Designer. They are designed to extend xfy Basic Edition by creating program elements coded in XML using xfy’s extension definition set, called XVCD.
Rich-client software maker Nexaweb updated its software platform to add a plug-in architecture that makes it possible to embed third-party components, such as for charting and drawing. Nexaweb 4.0 also added a messaging layer and a distributed XML engine.
Parasoft updated both its tool for testing Web services and its Jtest product.
Parasoft changed the name of its SOAPtest Web services testing tool to SOAtest right before JavaOne, according to vice president of corporate development Wayne Ariola.
“Basically, the product supports all XML-based transactions, including those of other SOA protocols, such as EJB, JMS and CORBA,” he said. “Any kind of messaging protocol is now being wrapped in services.”
The SOAtest 4.0 Web services functional testing tool, which began shipping in early June, now can do penetration testing, which makes it possible to test for security vulnerabilities. The US$3,995 tool also has new UDDI testing capabilities.
The other updated product, Jtest 7.0, includes a new feature called Test Case Sniffer that builds a test case while testers run an application that Jtest is configured to monitor. Jtest costs $3,495 per seat.
Seagull Software, which recently acquired Oak Grove Systems, announced LegaSuite BPM, a J2EE-based business process management system. The offering includes a GUI-based designer for defining process workflows; a runtime engine for executing those workflows and interacting with databases and application servers; an application framework to expose the engine’s functions via APIs and Web services; and a browser-based interface for managing and monitoring process activities.
Tangosol has updated Coherence, its in-memory caching and data management system for clustered Java server applications. Version 3.0 adds four new features: WAN-based clustering with global load-balancing and failover; clustered JMX (Java Management Extensions) for real-time monitoring of a cluster grid; read-ahead caching to reduce latencies; and custom partitioning and partition affinity, to direct and fine-tune data load balancing within a data grid. While Coherence always has provided automatic data load balancing and lossless failover, the ability to customize the data load balancing is new.
Business integration and process management software provider TIBCO announced plans for a deployment platform for service-oriented architectures. The first part of the platform, dubbed Project Matrix, will be a Java business integration service container, which will be due for early access in the first half of 2006. TIBCO also announced that the AJAX Accelerator Program will give customers early access to version 3.0 of General Interface, its rich-client interface. Version 3.0, which is expected later this year, will support the new AJAX specification.
A new open-source Web framework debuted at a JavaOne technical session. The framework, called Wicket, is available at wicket.sourceforge.net under the Apache Software License. It is designed to compete against JavaServer Faces, said Miko Matsumura, a vice president of marketing at Infravio, who is leading that effort in a personal capacity.
The framework, which can be used within most development environments, including Borland’s JBuilder, Eclipse, Oracle’s JDeveloper and Sun’s NetBeans, is particularly suited to cases where an application has multiple Struts forms on a single page, he said.
Windward Studios demonstrated Windward Reports 4.0. Windward Reports is a J2EE/.NET reporting engine that uses Microsoft Word as a layout tool. It works by merging any combination of XML, SQL or custom data sources with a Microsoft Word report template. It feeds data into the template to create a report that can be generated in PDF, .RTF, HTML, WordML, .XLS, SpreadsheetML, .TXT or multipart-MIME-e-mail format.
The release introduces a suite of advanced report-presentation formats and a new version of its AutoTag Word add-in with a selection wizard, drag-and-drop capability, adding the insert, edit and select tags to the right mouse button menus, and export of template data source settings.
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