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News and New Product Briefs (February 21, 2000)
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LookSmart partners with SlangSoft
LookSmart has partnered with Slangsoft to create foreign language versions of the LookSmart directory. Slangsoft's Java-based National Language Support technology will allow Internet users to browse and interact with LookSmart sites in a variety of languages. The first site based on this partnership is a Japanese language site which should be completed by late February.
Slangsoft's technology allows non-English text to be entered and viewed by Web users regardless of each user's OS, hardware platform, or fonts. The technology requires no installation, download, or plug-in. Slangsoft has also encapsulated the technology into its IGene API, which readily allows Web developers to internationalize and localize Web sites and programs.
Find out more about Slangsoft's technology:
http://www.slangsoft.com/code/technology.html
Second edition of Java Software Solutions released
Addison Wesley has released the second edition of the Java programming textbook, Java Software Solutions: Foundations of Program Design. The book, co-authored by William Loftus and John Lewis, teaches beginning programmers how to design and execute object-oriented applications.
New features in this edition include:
- Graphics Track pages to reinforce chapter themes
- A new chapter on 'Exceptions and I/O streams'
- Web Bonus boxes denoting more information on Web site
- Syntax boxes highlighting Java language elements
In addition to these features, the text has added recent Java developments, such as Java 2 and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platforms, and more graphical capabilities
Java Software Solutions: Foundations of Program Design is available for 4.
Get more information on the book:
http://www.awlonline.com/lewis
Caldera will distribute Java 2 to Linux developers
Sun Microsystems and Caldera Systems signed an agreement in which Caldera will distribute Sun's Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) and Java HotSpot Virtual Machine to the Linux developer community later in 2000. Access to J2EE will allow Linux developers to create Java-based enterprise applications for Linux systems. The distribution agreement will provide the Linux community with the most current Java technology and will allow Linux end-users to benefit from Java technology-based applications.
The agreement also makes Caldera the first commercial Linux distribution vendor to license Sun's Java technology source code. Sun and Caldera will be the first commercial vendors to offer the development community the latest release of the Java 2 platform for Linux. Sun expects to ship by mid-February a Linux version of J2SE, which will incorporate contributions from Blackdown, a non-profit organization of Linux and Java technology developers.
Caldera Systems' OpenLinux platform will also be shipping J2SE and Java HotSpot in future versions of OpenLinux 2.3+, OpenLinux eServer, and future OpenLinux-based products. Sun and Caldera will work together to provide enterprise Linux developers with support and consulting services.
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