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Java Product News (December 8, 2000)

By Julie Salzmann, JavaWorld.com, 12/08/00

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:

• SSL security layer that provides end-to-end encryption
• Support for UDP, CSD, and SMS
• WAP 1.1 stack compliance
• Support for WTLS Security Layer
• Full event logging
• Support for Web-based management interface
• Ability to connect to HTTP 1.0 or 1.1 host

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:

• Integration with FileNET's Panagon 2000, including XML-based templates and data documents
• Enhanced support for Entrust, specifically the Entrust Java Toolkit 5.0
• XML compliance with the W3C's XForms standard
• Ability to support XML-formatted documents via the Save As, Open, Import, Export, and Send commands
• Secure Internet transactions via HTTPS
• Enhanced user interface

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.

 

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