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<em>JavaWorld</em> News Briefs (published 8/1/96)
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Index of news briefs
Astound brings Java-powered motion to the Web
Corel announces new agreement with JavaSoft
Creating Media announces Plug-In Playlets
FutureTense ships Texture
Geosystems' MapQuest uses Java for global interactive mapping
Java Repository serves as resource collection for programmers and users
JavaSoft Forum discusses ActiveX, Java
JavaScript Cookbook CD-ROM available from Charles River Media
Microsoft to transition ActiveX to independent standards body
Natural Intelligence offers new Roaster release
Newly-arrived Finjan Software offers security products
ParcPlace announces general availability of Parts for Java
Patent awarded to Instant Sports
Silicon Graphcs announces Cosmo 3D graphics toolkit
SunExpress offers Java training tools
SunSoft unveils Solaris Internet tools
Active Software introduces ActiveWeb
Active Software Inc., a company focused on extending information systems to the Web, announced its first product, ActiveWeb. This software communications system allows dissimilar resources, such as applications, databases, and Java-enabled browsers, to exchange information across corporate intranets and the Internet.
ActiveWeb Release 1.0 includes four components. The ActiveWeb Information Broker exchanges information between networked resources, connecting dissimilar information resources. The ActiveWeb dbAdapter for SQL databases maps the information from corporate resources (such as a database or GUI) to the Information Broker, enabling users to "publish" information from the database to "subscribing" information broker-enabled client applications. "Database-aware" Java application development components map the adapter for a particular function or application; the development tools include Visual Java, a point-and-click Java development tool that has included classes for database objects. Finally, the Java-based deployment administration and management tools, written in Java, are designed to assist the network and database administrators in understanding and monitoring information flow and ActiveWeb business events across the network.
Active Web Release 1.0, currently in beta, will be available by early August. Licensed per developer, the ActiveWeb Developer
Suite is priced at ,995 for the initial developer, with additional developer licenses priced at ,495.
http://www.activesw.com
Creating Media announces Plug-In Playlets
Creating Media's Plug-In Playlets are ready-made Java applets that serve as powerful containers for multimedia content. They are geared at Web developers who want to add an interactive component to their Web sites. Because Playlets do not involve any Java programming, adding content to Web pages is a simple task, the company says.
All Plug-In-Playlets come with options for customization, including background color, background image, status bar annotation
messages, and sound. Playlets include the HotButton Panel Playlet, Temporal ImageMap, Streaming Animation, OneButton, Ticker,
Invisible Download, and Moving. A free trial offer is available through August 15.
http://www.creatingmedia.com
SunSoft unveils Solaris Internet tools
SunSoft Inc. has introduced the Solaris Internet Access PlusPack, a suite of tools for Internet users of the Solaris operating environment on SPARC- and Intel-based computers. The Solaris Internet Access PlusPack provides Internet tools for navigation, viewing, and publishing, as well as Java capabilities for Solaris customers who need to access the Internet and intranet.
The PlusPack includes Sun's Java Virtual Machine for running Java applets from within Solaris rather than a browser; Java-based desktop browser for viewing Java applets and HTML files and for browsing the Web; Netscape Navigator 2.01i for browsing the Web; an HTML authoring tool for constructing HTML pages with SoftQuad's HoTMetaL Light 2.0; video and audio tools for playing audio and video files; and network wrappers that give CDE and OpenWindows users easy access to Solaris FTP and Telnet capabilities.
The Solaris Internet Access PlusPack runs on Solaris 2.4 or later on both SPARC and Intel platforms and is fully compatible
with the Solaris common desktop environment (CDE) and OpenWindows GUIs. The product is priced at 9, and SunSoft is providing
customer service and technical support for the Internet Access PlusPack on a customized Web site.
http://www.sun.com/solaris/products
Newly-arrived Finjan Software offers security products
Finjan Software Ltd., formerly CyberSOFT, develops and markets software designed to resolve security problems posed by Java. Finjan's products help detect, monitor, and control programs written in Java that have been downloaded from the Web onto local PCs.
Available now, Finjan's SurFinBoard provides an enhanced security system for detecting and combatting suspicious Java applets. While securing the run-time environment of the Java-enabled browser, Finjan provides user-friendly and transparent security policy management.
SurFinBoard informs you when an applet comes "on board," displays the number of applets in the system, sets off alarms when security is breached or violated, identifies unsafe applets to signal security exception, automatically kills malicious applets, controls applet access to user input, monitors Java run-time environment (including memory, threads, and URLs), and exhibits graphs of resource usage.
SurFinGuard, to be released by the end of the year, works with Java-enabled browser file systems, network operating systems,
and IPC subsystems, and has an easy-to-manage security policy manager.
http://www.finjan.com
SunExpress offers Java training tools
SunExpress Inc., the aftermarketing company of Sun Microsystems, is offering education and training tools for Java. Through SunExpress, Sun customers will have access to training and technical books and CD-ROMs about using Java technology. Developed by the Java experts at Sun, these educational tools can be reused for training groups throughout a customer's company.
The CD-ROMs and books are geared toward Sun developers and Web administrators who want to learn about Java programming. Topics
range from an introduction to Java for non-programmers to tips and tricks for Java experts developing their own applets.
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