NobleNet has announced that it is bundling Visigenic's ODBC drivers for Windows NT and UNIX with the NobleNet OneDriver ODBC SDK. The Visigenic ODBC DriverSet has two ODBC componentsthe Driver Manager and a set of database drivers. The Driver Manager dynamically loads ODBC drivers and manages their interaction with the application. The database drivers submit SQL requests to the database and return the results to the application.
NobleNet Inc.
337 Turnpike Road
Southboro, MA 01772-1709
508-460-8222
http://www.noblenet.com
Blue Sky Software has announced Visual SQL, a client/server development tool that extends Visual C++ with visual designers, intuitive wizards, and object-oriented data access. Visual SQL provides easy definition of queries, SQL statements, tables, pick lists, and custom screens, as well as instant access to all database objects from a central Component Repository.
The Visual SQL design environment is fully integrated with Microsoft Developer Studio. You can create, modify, compile, and run client/server applications inside Developer Studio just like any Visual C++ application. The Visual SQL AppWizard extends the Visual C++ AppWizard.
Visual SQL includes a set of tools for creating SQL queries: the Query Builder, the SQL Wizard, and the SQL Editor. The Query Builder lets you visually create complex SQL queries without programming. Users simply point-and-click to select the tables and columns to be displayed in the query, set conditions, and execute the query. The SQL Wizard automates the process of defining SQL statements. Preview Mode lets you run the query and manipulate live data at design time. Using the Expression and Function Builder, Visual C++ developers can quickly create and add expressions, functions, and subqueries on-the-fly.
Blue Sky Software
7777 Fay Avenue, Suite 201
La Jolla, CA 92037
619-459-6365
http://www.blue-sky.com
Interactive Software Engineering (ISE) has announced that its ISE Eiffel now supports Eiffel/C++ interoperability. The Eiffel/C++ interface makes it possible to leverage existing C++ code, incorporate third-party C++ class libraries into Eiffel-based development, and develop applications using both Eiffel and C++.
The Eiffel/C++ interoperability includes the following: an encapsulation tool that generates Eiffel code to encapsulate an entire C++ class automatically; extensions to the Eiffel external clause to support direct calls to C++ macros, function prototype casts, the specification of extra include files, and so on; support for the creation and destruction of C++ objects from Eiffel (as well as access to data members of a given class); and a mechanism for calling Eiffel objects from C++ and calling C++ objects from Eiffel.
ISE Eiffel supports cross-platform development across UNIX (SunOS, Solaris, HP 9000, IBM RS/6000, DEC Alpha OSF/1, Data General Avion, Silicon Graphics, Linux, SCO, and UnixWare), Windows 3.1/NT/95, OS/2 Warp, and VMS (DEC and Vax).
Interactive Software Engineering
270 Storke Road, Suite 7
Goleta, CA 93117
805-685-1006
http://www.eiffel.com
Visigenic Software has announced OpenChannel, a database connectivity architecture. Based on the ODBC standard, OpenChannel provides heterogeneous data access through a common infrastructure of multiple systems, multiple applications, and multiple databases. The OpenChannel architecture's core components includes the OpenChannel Client, the OpenChannel Server, the OpenChannel Manager, and the Visigenic ODBC
DriverSet.
Additional modules are available including the OpenChannel Client for Java, which provides support for Java applications and applets, and the OpenChannel Secure module, which provides secure Internet communications.
Tying it all together is the OpenChannel Server, which connects to a data source through the ODBC Driver Manager and database-specific driver that will now exist on the server. Organizations designing and deploying ODBC-based solutions can use a Visigenic ODBC Driver bundled with OpenChannel, substitute other Visigenic ODBC drivers or third-party ODBC drivers, or write their own drivers while still using OpenChannel as the client-to-server connectivity infrastructure. The OpenChannel Server will initially support Windows NT.
Visigenic Software
951 Mariner's Island Boulevard, Suite 460
San Mateo, CA 94404
415-286-1900
http://www.visigenic.com
EliaShim has announced ViruSafe-WEB, a generic antivirus utility for Web browsers. ViruSafe-WEB is installed as part of the browser; whenever the browser downloads a file, ViruSafe-WEB automatically scans the file before saving to the disk. It can scan programs, compressed files, and Word documents.
ViruSafe-WEB can also be installed in other internet tools, such as FTP and e-mail. ViruSafe-WEB can be downloaded for free from EliaShim Web and FTP sites.
EliaShim Ltd.
22 Ha'Ashlag St.
Haifa 35022
Israel
+011-972-4-8728899
http://www.eliashim.com
Motorola's Personal Communicator Systems and Software division has announced the FLEXstack SDK that will facilitate integration of the FLEXchip Integrated Circuit for creating paging-capable products. The FLEXstack SDK allows integration of paging capabilities into computers, signs, security systems, or any remotely controlled device.
The SDK consists of four modules: the driver, message filter, message manager, and application interface. The FLEXstack Driver directly manages the FLEXchip IC and constructs FLEX messages. The Message Filter formats the message data into character format. Message Manager stores completed messages. The Application Interface manages the high-level interface to application software.
Motorola
999 Plaza Drive, Suite 600
Schaumburg, IL 60173
847-538-4999
http://www.mot.com/MIMS/PPG
Kinetix, Autodesk's multimedia unit, has announced an SDK to support 3-D graphics development for its 3D Studio MAX modeling and animation software. 3D Studio MAX lets you install third-party plug-in applications as part of the main application interface via drag and drop. The 3D Studio MAX architecture allows plug-ins to take advantage of features such as interactive real-time rendering, modeling, function-curve editing, selection, manipulation, and inverse kinematics.
Kinetix
111 McInnis Parkway
San Rafael, CA 94903
415-507-5000
http://www.ktx.com
Hewlett-Packard and Green Hills Software have announced the integration of HP's processor probes with Green Hills' C, C++, and Fortran compilers and Multi Development Environment. Combining the HP processor probe with an HP logic analyzer and the HP B3740A software analyzer provides a debugging solution for hardware and software integration problems such as logic analysis with source-code reference, timing measurements, and run control. When the HP hardware is joined with Green Hills Multi debugger, developers can set breakpoints, single-step through code, examine variables, and modify source-code variables.
Hewlett-Packard
P.O. Box 58059, MS51L-SJ
Santa Clara, CA 95051-8059
http://www.tmo.hp.com
Forte Software has released its Forte Web SDK, an add-on tool that supports the Forte Application Environment, an integrated set of object-oriented tools for building client/server applications. The Forte Web SDK enables Netscape Navigator and other browsers to function as Forte clients with full access to the Forte infrastructure.
The first release of the SDK allows Web clients to interact with Forte applications via CGI. The SDK also provides HTML class libraries that format responses to requests made by Web browsers. This includes automatically formatting the results of an SQL database query for display to a user in a table format. Forte also supports client execution of JavaScript. The second phase of Forte's Internet support will automatically generate interfaces to Java, allowing Java applets to interoperate with the Forte infrastructure.
Forte Software
1800 Harrison Street
Oakland, CA 94612
510-869-3400
http://www.forte.com
Netscape and Borland have announced that Borland's AppAccelerator "just-in-time" dynamic compiler for Java applications will be incorporated in Netscape Navigator in an effort to improve performance. Borland claims that AppAccelerator technology enables Java applets and applications to run five to ten times faster than unenhanced versions. Borland's AppAccelerator reads the intermediate byte code produced by Java development tools and translates it on-the-fly into machineexecutable instructions on the local client system. Initially, AppAccelerator will be available for Windows95 and Windows NT clients. AppAccelerator is currently shipping with the Borland C++ Development Suite 5.0 and Sun's Java Development Kit.
Borland International
100 Borland Way
Scotts Valley, CA 95066
408-431-1000
http://www.borland.com
TAG Systems has released TAG Xtender, a set of extensions to HTML. TAG Xtender utilizes a series of looping, conditional, assignment, database, SQL statements, and computation codes.
TAG Systems
41 Watchung Plaza, Suite 333
Montclair, NJ 07042
201-783-5583
http://www.tagonline.com
Oxford Computer has announced a new parallel-programming model and a symbolic parallel-programming method applicable to Intel's new Multimedia Extensions (MMX) to the PentiumPro. With this new programming model, the parallel operations of the MMX architecture can be described and visualized in familiar terms. Also, the parallel operations and data structures can be easily described symbolically in C and other high-level languages.
Oxford's MMX work is based on the company's own A236 Parallel DSP Chip, which is similar to Intel's MMX technology. Oxford's development tools, the Oxford Computer Development Environment for the A236 Parallel DSP Chip, is available on Oxford Computer's Web page. These tools facilitate the symbolic parallel programming in C of the A236 Parallel DSP Chip.
Oxford Computer
39 Old Good Hill Road
Oxford, CT 06478
203-881-0891
http://www.oxfordcomputer.com
Rational Software has announced Rational Apex C/C++ Cross, an integrated
software-engineering environment for designing, developing, and maintaining C and C++ applications. The tool is being released with cross-compilation support for the PowerPC. It supports code generation for the MPC603/604/505/860 microprocessors; 680x0 support is forthcoming.
Rational Apex C/C++ Cross is an integrated system that includes a productionquality C and C++ cross-compiler, target-
oriented source-level debugger, C/C++ code rule checker, and program browser. The tool supports the draft ANSI C++ standard, along with ANSI and K&R C.
Rational Software Corp.
2800 San Tomas Expressway
Santa Clara, CA 95051-0951
408-496-3600
http://www.rational.com
Cygnus Support has announced its GNU Pro Simulator for the PowerPC. The
simulator will be offered as a standard component to the GNU Pro Tool Kit for PowerPC and includes the following: GNU C/C++ compilers; remote, windowing, source-level debugger with GUI; macro assembler; linker; binary-file utilities; and a comprehensive support service.
The GNU Pro Simulator for PowerPC provides over 200 K of instructions per second, full MMU simulation, a virtual device interface with the capability to simulate an entire embedded design, PowerPC specific model selection, PowerPC function unit performance, and much more. The simulator is available for the HP 9000/700 (HP-UX 9.05), i386 (DOS/Win 3.1), PowerPC (AIX 4.1, 3.2.5), IBM RS/6000, and SPARC (Solaris 2.4 and SunOS 4.1.4).
Cygnus Support
1937 Landings Drive
Mountain View, CA 94043
415-903-1400
http://www.cygnus.com
Web-based databases can get ODBC compliance using EveryWare Development's Tango visual-development tool. Tango consists of an editor and CGI tools. EveryWare also offers Bolero, a tool for logging the activity of Web servers into standard databases such as Butler SQL, Oracle, Sybase, Informix, FoxPro, and others. Bolero tracks Web-site activity such as the number of hits on a Web page and which sites are providing links to your Web site. Bolero will be initially released for the Macintosh.
EveryWare
7145 West Credit Avenue
Building 1, Suite 2
Mississauga, ON
Canada L5N 6J7
905-819-1173
http://www.everyware.com