EXE articles from August 2000

EXE archives from August 2000

A language in the key of C#.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 1, 2000... The covers are off. The language specs are available for inspection. The C# (that's 'C sharp') language has been delivered to the world. Microsoft's avowed intent is for the OO-based language to provide a better balance between power and...

Oracle's Internet Developer Suite.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2000... Oracle's concern with Internet-based development is reflected in two Oracle 8i-related announcements: Oracle Internet Developer Suite and Oracle Internet Application Server8i (Oracle iAS).The Developer Suite includes a Java development...

Devtop from Desktop.com.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2000... A combination of Application Service Provider, a development environment, and a communication forum for groups of developers, Devtop is an interesting new development. From the people behind Desktop -- a personalised Internet-based desktop --...

NuMega.(NuMega DevPartner Studio 6.5 Enterprise Edition\)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2000... NuMega DevPartner Studio 6.5 Enterprise Edition includes the NuMega error detection, performance analysis and cove coverage analysis tools. There is a new version of TrackRecord and two new products: Reconcile (requirements management) and Test...

Java Edition.(InstallShield's Java Edition 3.5)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2000... Using 'Web Start' Wizard technology, jointly developed with Sun, InstallShield's Java Edition 3.5 adds Linux supportto the cross-platform installer. As well as a Silent Install feature and JNI support, the tool can keep contents of an install...

Bolero 3.1.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Bolero 3.1, the development environment for component-based applications running on Java, features support for the incorporation of XML data processing. There is also Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) support in the form of EJBs and the Java...

JClass 4.5.(KL Group's JClass 4.5)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2000... KL Group's JClass 4.5 is a set of Java components for UI development. There is support for Sun's JDK 1.3, a new layout and reporting component, a new gauge component in JClass Elements and improvements for populating tables and charts with...

KL Group.(JProbe 2.8)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2000... Another KL Group release is the Java tuning tool JProbe 2.8. Features include a Detail Meter to configure the level of detail at which the tool operates, a Garbage Monitor to identify expensive memory recycling, and the ability to save profiler...

Won't somebody eHelp me?(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2000... The eHelp Corporation, formerly known as RoboHELP, has updated its RoboHELP Office product. Version 9.0 features support for the new 'Oracle Help for Java' (OHJ), integrated support for the use of a third party HTML editor, a rebuild of the...

Together 4.0 ever.
August 1, 2000... Together Control Center 4.0, the flagship of the Together product line, provides an environment for development teams to model, document and implement their systems. Building on the 'simultaneous roundtrip' technology, which keeps UML models...

Valid UML.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2000... Validation of UML-based design, in terms of quality and consistency, is provided by Reviewer for Select Enterprise. Designed to work with Select Enterprise, the tool analyses your system design. You are able to customise the review options that...

DataSuite.(Sheridan's DataSuite)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2000... Sheridan's DataSuite includes three sets of data input controls: Active Input (for data validation), Calendar Widgets (for the management of dates and times) and Data Widgets (for database front-end development). The RRP is $529.

QuickTest 4.0.(Astra QuickTest 4.0 and Astra LoadTest 4.0)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2000... Astra QuickTest 4.0 and Astra LoadTest 4.0 are website testing tools. QuickTest sees an improvement of cross-browser support and integration with TestDirector for test management from a central repository. LoadTest 4.0 features new server...

WIDCOMM.(BlueStack is WIDCOMM's Blue-tooth protocol stack software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2000... BlueStack is WIDCOMM's Blue-tooth protocol stack software (for the 1.0b spec) and its BlueConnect SDK lets you develop Bluetooth-aware apps for the Handspring Visor. The kit includes a Handspring Visor PDA and an Ericsson Blue-tooth baseband...

MKS.(MKS Toolkit for Developers 7.0)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2000... As well as further addressing the Linux platform, every MKS v7.O toolkit includes NuTCRACKER Workstation, which provides Unix application and script compatibility on Windows. The MKS Toolkit for Developers 7.0 has an RRP of $399 (the...

LEADTOOLS.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2000... On the subject of toolkits, LEADTOOLS 12 helps you integrate colour, greyscale and document imaging into applications. This latest version features optimised memory management, an updated bar code engine and new document clean-up features.

Your better half.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 1, 2000... Jules writes letters too. Here's one he wrote to Bill Gates, on the occasion of his impending bereavement. Dear Bill, I hope you don't mind me calling you Bill. After all, even though you've probably never heard of me, I feel as if we're...

LETTERS.(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2000... Strength in diversity Dear Sir, In the June 2000 Soapflakes (Informatica feminale), Alun Williams writes: `It does matter. To the question Are the best software developers born or made? (EXE Questionnaire, May 2000) James Coplien...

SIPO: simple inter-process objects.(Technology Tutorial)
August 1, 2000... C++ from the coalface. In the first of an occasional series OT practical examples of real-world C++ usage, Steve Donovan presents a straightforward and compact model for Win32-based inter-process communication. Modern PC operating systems...

Java Stored Procedures with Oracle 8i.(Technology Tutorial)
August 1, 2000... Chris Drawater develops a generic Java class that can be used not only within Oracle 8i but also by middleware servers and client applications. One of the long awaited features of Oracle 8I was the inclusion of a JVM, within the DBMS...

Filesystems, the Unix way.(Technology Information)
August 1, 2000... Pull up a chair by the hearth, toss another system manual on the fire and Peter Collinson will tell tale of inodes of old. One of the nice things about writing for magazines like EXE is that readers send you email. I get an amount of mail...

New languages, old practices.
August 1, 2000... There's a new kid on the block. But exactly what language is he speaking? Francis Glassborow would like to know. He also has a point to raise with the BSI. By the time you read this you will be aware that Microsoft is proposing to add yet...

The needs of the many.(Technology Information)
August 1, 2000... Philip Brown returns to the development of his general-purpose object framework and demonstrates a way of working with sets of business objects. This month I want to complete the question of relationship handling by considering how to work...

Mixing Java and C++.(Technology Information)
August 1, 2000... When combining software technologies there are usually problems to be addressed that go beyond the passing of messages from a component built in one technology to a component built using another. Alan Griffiths tackles the case of Java and C++....

Microsoft casts its .NET.(Product Information)
August 1, 2000... First C# then .NET. Jon Perkins reports on the recent announcements from Microsoft concerning its next-generation platform architecture. This month I'm moving away from any purely Visual Basic content to review the recent series of...

Petter Hesselberg's Programming Industrial Strength Windows.(Review)
August 1, 2000... This book is a valiant attempt to do something fairly unususal and hard: to show how to write a robust and stable non-trivial Windows program that has a sane user interface. This means preventing or dealing with many kinds of error. It also...

SQL-based office politics.(Column)
August 1, 2000... To change a database can be more than someone's job is worth, as Verity Stob found out. Through the fug I could see that the man dozing in the armchair in the corner was really fat: 20 stone or more, as fat as a fat American occupying a...