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<em>JavaWorld</em> News Briefs (6/1/97)

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By Kane Scarlett, JavaWorld.com, 06/01/97

Headlines

Slingshot 1.5: Web publishing with intelligent push
Free, online Java intro class from IBM
Amazon Web DB devtool adds JavaBeans
Digital unveils Java tools for Alpha
Sun licenses Taligent graphics technology forJava
NatSemi UK picks IONA devtool for DB inventorydevelopment
Univ. of Washington and Sun work on independent Javaverification services
Update: MerzScope 2.0 Web mapper available in beta
iavadraw 3.0 dev platform for Java and Beans
Roasted news, hot off the fire
Apple joins others on Java Foundation Classes
Microsoft licenses NCware's Java implementation of LDAP
WebCollab lets you share visual data over the'Net
Get "early access" to the Java IDL API spec
Microsoft slips DirectX into its Java VM
Easy-to-use Java Studio almost here
Integration of e-mail, fax, voicemail, and paging made possible through Java
Despite Java popularity, developers still usingC++
New security "crash" bug found and fixed
Is trouble brewing for Java's native interface?
Different directions for virtual machines
Update: New versions of Asymetrix tools here
Multiple smart card development packages from IntegrityArts
Version control product to bundle with Visual CafePro
Prices out for Lotus Go Webservers and Dominoservers
Domino servers start field testing
First Tennessee Bank goes online with Java
MarketBuilder DB marketing software
Traffic-Web: A merchandising task-managementsystem
IBM plans VLIW chip that runs Java
Intel's immediate goal: Supercharge Pentiums forJava
Update: Parts for Java 2.0 IDE will support Beans andCORBA
Change FreeHand documents to HTML code
2 heavyweights license Schlumberger's Solo JavaCard
Update: Aimtech's Jamba 2.0 enhanced authoringtool

Slingshot 1.5: Web publishing with intelligent push software

Version 1.5 of CSK Software's Slingshot software is "geared towards serving the data publishing needs of the banking and brokering institutions -- delivering data where and how it is required, to whomever requires it, either in real or delayed time," says Niall O'Cleirigh, Slingshot's chief technical architect. Slingshot is designed to distribute real-time financial market data across the Internet or intranets.

Slingshot's Data Pump (which operates on NT 3.51, 4.0, and 95) is the core of the push technology. A single Slingshot pump can manage 16 applications simultaneously, delivering data (in real time) to 256 users at the same time. And if more bandwidth is required, the systems administrator can install subsequent pumps.

Slingshot has available as an option several development kits, for developers to build custom applications to deliver real-time data based on Java classes, ActiveX controls, Netscape Navigator plug-ins, and C/C++ apps.

The Slingshot Security Manager controls access to all items of Slingshot data for connecting users. Users are assigned levels of data to which they get access, and they are assigned certain usage of that data. Usage includes the ability to:

• Update -- the user can contribute to objects.
• Read -- the user can read the items in question.
• Be barred -- the user is denied access to the data.

Slingshot is available as a series of different product sets. The "Platform" consists of the Data Pump, Market Data Interfaces, and the Spreadsheet Server. The "Professional" consists of Platform plus Security Manager and a Delayed Data Server. The "Developer" has the Data Pump and Spreadsheet Server, plus server- and client-side Java, ActiveX, and Navigator plug-in dev kits and the Test Bench.

 

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