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| JRun 2.3 Released. Feb
25, 1999 Live software released JRun 2.3 which now adds support for Servlet API 2.2.1, Novell 5.0 and other capabilities. |
From Live Software: JRun 2.3 Release |
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| App servers features by WebReview, Java Developers
Journal Feb 26, 1999 The latest Web Techniques (Webreview.com) and Java Developers Journal both are running major feature sections on application servers this month. The JDJ front page includes articles on service brokers, and Corba Callbacks, and an interview with David Stok, founder of SilverStream. And the complete March JDJ (requires JDJ membership) is full of server articles as David Stok presents his view on what it takes to be an applications server and where the market is headed. In addition there are articles on Servlets and CORBA, a comparision of two JSP implentations, a SilverStream case study and review of the SilverStream 2.0. WebReview presents a special section on application servers featuring a (not comprehensive) list showing various varieties of app servers plus several overview articles by Guy Wright and Steven Benfield |
From Java Developer's Journal, March 1999:
From WebReview, Feb 26:
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| Database: Wizards in JavaLand: North, Fesperman; and
a couple shotgun weddings... Feb
20, 1999 Following Oracle's lead: We focus on Java connections with databases - both relational and object which have become a hot topic. Good news for client/server fans: Two excellent client/server technologists Ken North and Lee Fesperman bring major offerings to the Java community. In JavaPro, Ken North provides an overview of Java usage with various kinds of databases: on-line relational, multi-dimensional, and object. It's also a great lead-in for his new book on Java and databases: Database Magic with Ken North. Even at first glance, the book appears very comprehensive. If you have read his previous book on databases, you're already familiar with his thorough and in-depth coverage of database technology. Lee Fesperman (FFE Software) has now ported some highly evolved SQL technology to Java. Not yet released,. FirstSQL/J is a pure Java database server. Lee's original FirstSQL server provides technically superior SQL capabilities that address and resolve important relationality issues. If you're serious about database, or if you just need guidance in the right direction, firstsql.com is a good place to start. Lee has posted a series of articles about database that are well worth reading. Among other things, he has an excellent discussion on the issue of nulls. In a Java related article he explains the merits and varieties of Java-database connections: writing stored procedures in Java, and storing Java objects in a database. It's very timely: This week saw two Java Server - OODBMS marraiges: Bea WebLogic with Object Design, and with New Atlanta with Gemstone. Which reminds me, if you like Cajun food, don't miss the BEA User's Conference - buy a ticket now and fly down to New Orleans! The conference runs from Monday Feb 21 through Feb 24 - the French Quarter is about a block and a half east. If you can't make it, you can at least register for the live broadcast. (And you can also e-mail me about good ways to get the Cajun food. If all else fails, Click Here! --Rich Katz ) |
From JavaPro: Java in the Database by Ken North, Feb 1998 From Ken North: Database Magic with Ken North From FirstSQl.com: From Java Industry Connection:
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| DHTML:
Bitstream Web Font Wizard; Cascading Style Sheets Feb 19, 1999 Bitstream now offers its Web Font Maker package. The package makes it quite possible to deploy unusual fonts on the Web - and create new ones, as reported by Daniel Will-Harris in Web Review. You need Netscape 4 or above to view the fonts on Mac or PC - (or Intenet Explorer 4 or 5 on PC) Daniel also offers his ownexample page. On first viewing, the Web user receives the "Bitstream font server" which enables subsequent dynamic font viewing. Web Review provides a quick tutorial. The package costs $198 with a special offer for a free font called Prima Sans according to Bitstreams web site. DHTML also allows you to use Cascading Style Sheets. Style sheets, among other things, enable you to set different default fonts for headings, normal text, and other elements. Dave Edis offers some examples on the Developer.com Tech Journal. |
From Web Review, Feb 19.
From BitStream:
Example from Daniel Will-Harris: efuse. From Developer.com: In style: Cascading Style Sheets by Dave Edis |
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| New Spin on Servlets: ZAT's It! Feb 13, 1999 Has a servlet RAD tool finally arrived? It just may have. Spin, a new tool from "Zat" both provides a RAD environment for creating servlets and enables you to both work from HTML documents that you create with an HTML editor and to generate HTML dynamically. Hint: Be sure to download and read the documentation. |
From ZAT:
From internet.com: Zat Releases Java Servlet Authoring Tool by Scott Clark. |
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| Monday Morning Café Chatter: ZDNet:
Java 2 gets good JMarks; but Microsoft's "Cool." updated Feb 15,
1999 Giving PC Magazine's first impressions of Java 2 Rich Dragan finds a lot to like with Swing, cross-app drag and drop, collections, Corba support, JDBC 2.0, - and even the speed. And, (in a move apparantly to comply with the Nov 17, 1998 court order), even Microsoft released a compliant JVM for NT Service Pack 4. To say that Microsoft is impressed with Java, however, might be pushing it.. In fact they might be dumping it -- dumping J++ that is -- and are reported to be examining an alternative OO language called "Cool." (No doubt the IDE is called "Way"). Few seem to be sure what Cool is. It may or may not be cross platform. It may be a Visual Basic-like tool that MS acquired. But Dana Gardner of InfoWorld claims that Cool stands for "C++ Object Oriented Language." MicroRant: Hey, maybe "Cool" is both - having real scope resolution like super() in C++ would be great, but so would finally getting Visual Basic to do subclassing. VB programmers have waited far too long and have waded too far from shore trying to work around VBs limitations. But more simply, maybe MS will finally back a real OO language - they do have one already - called "Visual Foxpro". Whatever MS decides, I hope it has a try-catch control structure. Everybody's thinking....While Microsoft thinks it over, Sun has been considering making Java "Open Source," or in the mean time, declaring that it already is. Thinking is a good thing. Outside the MS world, Java makes big news daily: InfoWorld named Symantec's Visual Café 2.5 as it's 1998 Product of the Year with Microsoft's Visual Studio 6.0 as runner up. MS's VS 6.0 was selected first by PC Magazine in its Technical Excellence Awards for Development Tools But, otherwise, how far apart they've groan...the PC Magazine awards don't mention Café - or any other Java product for that matter, but instead does give finalist status to (drum roll..).Perl 5.005. (sigh) [Java Skyline recommends learning aids but does not recommend server products - see the current Editorial: What we Recommend] |
From ZDNet PC Magazine
From ZDNet PC Week, Feb 12:
From InfoWorld:
From Microsoft: Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 4 Information and Download From Cetus-Links: OO Visual Foxpro by Rich Katz (gratuitous as opposed to object-oriented self-reference) |
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| Case Study: Harvard University, Nevo combine ServletExec, VisiBroker to deliver services Feb 12, 1999 Nevo Technologies and Harvard University plan to implement a multi-tiered solution to provide services such as registration, grade reporting and access to records using servlet technology. The solution uses New Atlanta's ServletExec to provide session management and dynamic web content with Inprise VisiBroker to provide access to existing systems. Enterprise Development has been providing an on-line forum for discussion of the Harvard project through Feb 15. |
From New Atlanta: Nevo/Harvard Information Case Study,
Feb 10 From Enterprise Development Magazine Harvard's 20-year plan by Kenneth Ledeen and Cynthia Morgan From Nevo: Press Page From Inprise: Case Study: Harvard University, Dec 1998. From PC Week: Java weaves its way into the enterprise fabric By Stan Gibson Dec 21, 1998 |
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| Open Source engines Enhydra, Locomotive add power. Feb 10, 1999 Enhydra Org and the Locomotive Project both offer open source servlet engines. Open source can offer advangages. For instance, Enhydra provides you with the ability to modify the Session object. EnHydra includes an HTTP server, but can also be used with other web servers. Locomotive is strictly a servlet engine, but comes with enhanced template abilities. Reviews of both products appear in Servlet Central, Feb 1999. |
From Enhydra: From Locomotive Project: From Servlet Central Feb 1999:
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| On-line Servlet Tutorials from NovoCode, HotWired
updated Feb 11, 1999 Stefan Zeiger of NovoCode, developers of NetForge, offers this well designed and helpful on-line servlet tutorial. The tutorial provides step-by-step instructions, and shows actual code examples highlighted in color. It explains which features apply to Servlet API 2.1 (vs 2.0), and covers sessions, cookies, data sharing, and thread issues. Highly Recommended (as is Jason Hunter's book (see Java Skyline Learning Resources). -RichKatz Web Monkey also provides a quick and easy servlet intro on HotWired.  |
From NovoCode: Servlet Essentials by Stefan Zeiger****, updated Feb 6 See also: Learning Servlets in Java Skyline Learning Resources And from HotWired/Web Monkey: Java
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Gold Standard: cXML - the rush is on. Feb 9, 1999
And so it begins. As if the Ides of March weren't enough to roust you out of winter, this March comes especially equipped with promises of the future of commerce. The ever growing movement toward XML has commercial connections... "Make mine to go, black, no sugar." That's how you might order a cup of coffee. But how would you say something like that on the Internet? According to Ariba - and 40 other companies, you'll say it in cXML, a new standard based on XML. cXML will be publically available in March, according to Ariba. There are already two other public Commerce XML standards: W3 org announced Universal Commerce Language and Protocol on Jan 20, and Veo Systems offers a Commerce XML Java library called CBL 1.0. Veo also makes a Java XML parser that supports Java 2 and SOX (Schema for Object Oriented XML). Both Veo and Ariba are members of Commerce Net. Juancarlo Añez recently published a comparison of a several Java XML parsers and similar tools in Java Report. |
From Ariba: Press Release Feb 8 From Veo Systems: From W3 Org:
From CommerceNet: eCommerce Resources. From Nature.com Web Matters: The XML Revolution, by Dan Connolly of W3, Oct 1, 1998. From Java Report: Java XML Parsers: A Comparitive Evaluation of 7 Free Tools by Juancarlo Añez |
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| Small, maybe even beautiful Feb 10, 1999 reported by Kim Burrafatto ...but definitely small. "Amazing!!" It's like one of those 1/2 hour testimonial commercials on TV, or like a Barnum and Baily show, or maybe an episode of Babylon 5 .. you're gonna have to see it to believe it. Take a look for yourself... |
From Science Daily:World's Smallest Web Server fits in a Shirt Pocket, Feb 7 From Stanford University: |
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| BEA WebLogic available for AS/400 Feb 9, 1999 BEA Systems announced today that their WebLogic applications server is now available for AS/400 systems. |
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| There's an Orb in my Beans! Iona buys EJBHome: Feb 2, 1999 Iona Technologies, maker of the Orbix Corba ORB announced they have purchased EJBHome Ltd. for an undisclosed amount. The EJBHome site will still continue to exist, according to a FAQ that EJBHome has published. |
From IONA: Press Release, Feb 1. From EJBHome:
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| RAW IRON: Oracle8i Appliance to bypass OS: Announced Feb 1; HP first distributer, others
follow. Updated Feb 2, 1999 Hewlet Packard the first distributer for "Raw Iron," code name for Oracle8i Appliance, a database computer has now been joined by Dell and Compaq. The appliance is actually a computer that provides businesses with database access. It is intended to require little or no configuration to plug into a network, and will bypass much of the computer's normal operating system. Oracle8i itself completely integrates with Java. Oracle plans to make Oracle8i Appliance available by mid-1999. |
From Oracle: From C/Net News: HP, Oracle team on server appliance, by Bloomberg Press, Jan 29 From InfoWorld: HP to build Oracle's server appliances, by Dan Briody, Jan 29 |
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| Web Sphere S/390 clocks in - Fast. Feb 2, 1999 IBM's Web Sphere operating on a System 390 8-way mainframe computer posted the highest transaction throughput yet over 25,000 transactions per second on the SPECweb benchmark. |
From IBM:
From Ideas International: Latest SPECweb results. |
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| iServer Upgrade has load balancing Feb 2, 1999 Servertec announced the latest upgrade to its iServer product with a load of new features including load balancing and enhanced user security, support for HTTP 1.1.. |
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