INDEXHEAD: Sun launches Java TV technology for digital television
Sun Microsystems is now shipping its Java TV technology, which introduces the Java platform to the digital television market. Java TV technology was created via the Java Community Process with support from digital television companies, including LG Electronics, Motorola, Hong Kong Telecom, Matsushita Electric Industrial, Philips, OpenTV, Samsung, PowerTV, Sony, and Toshiba. The technology facilitates interactive television offerings, complies with emerging digital TV standards, and provides developers with a platform for creating interactive TV content. Other interactive implementations of the technology could include: TV auctions, online voting and polling, game show participation, and improved communications (online chatting, email, and instant messaging).
The Java TV technology ships with a reference implementation, a test suite, and a final specification.
http://java.sun.com/products/javatv/overview.html
INDEXHEAD: Empower Interactive provides a gateway to WAP
Empower Interactive Group has released to the open source community its Java-based Empowered WAP Gateway. The WAP Gateway, which can handle high-volume WAP services, allows users to supply services over WAP-enabled devices. Features of the Empowered WAP Gateway include:
http://www.eigroup.com/products/wapgw.jsp
INDEXHEAD: Shana updates e-forms management application
Shana has unveiled Informed 3, an integrated e-forms management offering that helps organizations coordinate e-forms in the e-business environment. Informed 3 updates the software elements of the Informed E-Forms Portal solution and offers users improved security as well as better XML integration. Other features include:
Informed 3 contains the following applications: Informed Deployment Server, Informed Designer, Informed Filler for Java, and Informed Filler for the desktop. Pricing for the package varies based on a customer's needs and system configuration.
http://www.shana.com/products/default.asp
INDEXHEAD: ANT debuts Fresco embedded browser for Java
The Fresco embedded browser offers OEMs a small footprint and customizable environment because it relies on the Java Native Interface (JNI) to communicate with Java-based Internet devices. Fresco, developed by ANT Limited, is written in C and relies on a three-tiered architecture: the ANT Portability Environment (APE); the core standards-compatible browser code; and a graphical frontend. That version of Fresco revises APE to interact with Java platforms via JNI, which allows systems with a compatible Java VM and a C compiler to operate the Fresco browser without porting any browser code. The platform-independent browser allows any application written in Java to rely on Fresco as a native class for portraying HTML content.