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| W3's Jigsaw gets Proxy Jan
29, 1999 W3 Consortium's latest Jigsaw modular server, version 2.0.1 is now complete with a proxy package. The new version itself was released Jan 19. It provides CSV tree access and fixed support for Java 2 (JDK 1.2). Version 2.0.1 supports class loading of servlets (for automatic reloading on update). Jigsaw also supports remote servlets. The Servlets and Jigsaw tutorial page provides instructions. |
From W3:
From Internet News:W3C Announces the Release of Jigsaw 2.0 Web Server by Scott Clark, Jan 21. |
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| Database: SQLJ: The database mambo combo Jan 25, 1999 After months of preparation and beta testing, Oracle is about to unveil it's SQLJ release. Java Developer's Journal provides an exclusive sneak preview. SQLJ is a preprocessor extension of JDBC that provides for "embedded" SQL. It is ideal for database servers that provide bound procedures such as Oracle and DB2. As such, it should play a major role in Oracle 8i. IBM announced support of SQLJ for its S/390 DB2 platform in late December. Oracle provides a user guide that allows you to get started and to test SQLJ on a database. The SIGMOD committee recently published a tutorial and IBM provides an SQLJ Home Page and SQLJ support software. In Web Techniques, Ken North provides an overview of SQLJ and other database trends. |
From Java Developers Journal: Oracle Extends Support for Standards Based SQLJ, Feb 1999. From SIGMOD 98:Java and Relational Databases: SQLJ (Tutorial) by Gray Clossman, Phil Shaw, Mark Hapner, Johannes Klein, Richard Pledereder, Brian Becker, Dec 1998. From Oracle:
From IBM: From Web Techniques: Tool Suites, MDX, and SQLJ by Ken North, Jan 1999. |
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| NetDynamics Roadshow: A JavaLoad hits the road
Jan 21, 1999 Sun's Portal-Power Roadshow stopped for a look under the hood at Net Dynamics and the JavaLoad testing tool at the Santa Clara Marriot Wednesday. Sun demonstrated ND Studio, a highly effective RAD tool. It has the ability to create and combine both HTML-servlet and Applet-IIOP server interaction styles. Net Dynamics provides integration to other enterprise components through PACs (Platform Adapter Components), and integrators can write their own. One such PAC, Mobile Apps demonstrated Parallel Crystal provides high-throughput Web reporting using their parallel Crystal Reports NT server. (Parallel Crystal also connects to other Java servers). Sun also announced upcoming availability for EJB Session beans in Net Dynamics RSN. Sun gave an overview of its SunTest Suite, a server testing tool product line featuring JavaLoad. JavaLoad places and measures load at various points in a server network. It is capable of measuring non-Java systems. Other Sun test tools are available for download, but you can't download JavaLoad quite yet. Also it takes some work (and consulting time hopefully free or cheap) to attach JavaLoad to arbitrary non-Java components. The show continues to 8 other cities in the western hemisphere. Developer Notes: You can encounter limitations for Applet-RMI-style connections through a firewall. See Hunter and Crawford's exceptional book Java Servlet Programming, Chapter 10. |
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RSA'99 New Products: PKI Arrives. Some parade, a few masquerade, and one even bares its code
Jan 20, 1999 The Big News: Public Key Infrastructures, asymetrical key systems that provide powerful trust relationships have arrived in a big way. Important possibilities are emerging for creating robust, enhanced relations between server and customer. Java-Side: Please realize that most of the security industry lives in C/C++ land. However, the view that "no one is seriously creating security systems in pure Java" is slightly overstated. In RSA'99 vendors paraded out several Java-interfaced products useful for building Java Servers, as well as pure Java, and Open Source tools. RSA demonstrated its new Keon security server as well as its Crypto-J and SSL-J products. Keon provides log-in validation for servers and applications and integrates with Java servers. SSL-J has undergone a speed-up transformation and runs thousands of times faster than it did a year ago, according to RSA's "Crypt-O-Meter" demonstration. (Frankly, authorization products are kinda dull to look at and demos like this help add some spice. RSA also had a "this is your data -- this is your data on SSL" type exhibit). Crypto-J supports numerous protocols and provides high-speed cryptographic opeartions for applications. It's a pure Java extension of Sun's JCE. But Crypto-J is actually just marketed in the U.S. by RSA. In reality Crypto-J is J/Crypto produced by Baltimore Technologies. Baltimore Technologies is the company where the 12 year old genius Sarah Flannery interned under William White. Entrust showed its Open Source PKI tools for developers. The tools support multiple certificate protocols and encryption methods, multiple languages, and naturally, multiple JDK platforms. Business Integrators: Gradient Technologies' NetCrusader product line supports Entrust and provides user roles through privilege access certificates (PAC)s as supported by Net Dynamics. And enCommerce's getAccess combines user role administration with CGI/Servlet style app integration - getRemoteUser ('cept on IIS). Know Thy Source: Open source is a good idea for a number of reasons. Take care when downloading products. A c/net news article warns about Trojan horses. If you're wondering why someone might go to all that trouble, take a look at the recently restored Walsh Report. |
From RSA: From Entrust:
From Baltimore Technologies (Ireland): From Gradient: From enCommerce: From Electronic Frontier Austraila: Walsh Report |
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| Nelson King gives Novera's flagship high marks Jan 16, 1999 Internet Week IWLabs report by Nelson King gave jBusiness 4.0 applications server a 3-1/2 star rating. The review focused on servers extensive managment capabilities. A previous Internet Week article noted Novera's EBO abstract layer interface support that includes CORBA, EJB, LDAP, JDBC and COM. jBusiness 4.0 first shipped on Dec 7, 1998. |
From Internet Week:
From: Novera: jBusiness TechCenter |
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| RSA'99 Conference
Jan 20, 1999 The RSA'99 public Expo ended Thursday. You can download the schedule from the RSA'99 Conference Web site. CNET and InfoWorld have features of the conference and Security Wire provided daily coverage. Internet Week is running a series on security and e-commerce. |
From RSA'99: Conference Overview, News, Registration,
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Wonder Drug: XML: MDSAX goes Open Source, XML parsing, XML servlets, Namespace standard.
Jan 15, 1999 Among them: Bill la Forge of JXML posts the latest MDSAX (Requires JDK 1.2 (or I guess we should we say "requires Java 2" now) and gives you the source code - as the words "Open Source" would imply... And, Nazmul Idris discusses how to use the IBM and Sun parsers in a tutorial on XML and Java 2. And Ken Sall presents a three part series on Java and XML on WDVL. All major players are involved. IBM alphaWorks, Oracle and Sun provide Java XML parsers and other Java XML tools. And according to JRun Magazine, you will soon be able to buy an XML Servlet...on-line.
But were you actually possibly
what XML is all about? Steve Muench, the "Oracle XML Oracle" and self-avowed evangelist explains why you need XML in a slide show - comments on the side. |
SGML/XML Web Page: News From JXML: From IBM: alphaWorks: XML parser. From DeveloperLife.com: XML and Java Tutorial by Nazmul Idris From WDVL: XML and Java: The Perfect Pair by Ken Sall. From Sun JDC Early Access: Project X XML-enabling services. From JRun Magazine: The XMLServlet by John Hicks From Microsoft: From Oracle:
From Internet Week: W3 Approves XML Namespaces by Richard Karpinski |
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| Microsoft's Java-COM Jan 15, 1999 Microsoft's Java is becoming more compatible. But their JVM (SDK 2.0) always was fairly compatible. Is MS's Java-COM pure? More importantly, can you take adavantage of it? Chad Verbowski verbalizes the MS architecture. |
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| Security Dynamics double-play: IBM deal, Australian subsidiary Conference Next Week Jan 8, 1999 Security Dynamics announced market trial program with IBM for using SecurID with VPN. And it's RSA Data Security, Inc. group acquired an Australian firm. By using clean-room re-engineering, this gives RSA an international presence and frees it from US Commerce Department cryptography trade regulations. There is also a Java security RSA provider in Australia, Australian Business Access (ABA) with a clean-room implementation based on the Sun JCE beta. The annual RSA Data Security conference starts Sunday Jan 17 in San Jose. |
From Security Dynamics, RSA:
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From ABA: JCE 1.0 |
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| Sun issues RMI-IIOP beta! Jan 4,
1999 RMI-IIOP, the long awaited merger of Java RMI with CORBA technology allows RMI calls that are compatible with CORBA. |
Join the Java Developers Connection at Sun and go to: Early Access: RMI-IIOP |
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