Cerebellum Software Inc. recently announced the latest release of their
innovative data access middleware and query application development
environment Cerebellum 1.3, which replaces the tedium of coding SQL
queries with a drag-and-drop visual programming approach. Using Cerebellum,
queries are saved as agents, which are units of compiled Java code that
communicate with data sources in their native tongue. These agents are
managed by servers called agencies that mediate between the workstations that
run the queryclient applications. This middleware approach provides a
unified way to access, integrate and manage data from a variety of databases
and data sources at different physical locations. Cerebellum is based on Java
2 Enterprise Edition technology and incorporates features from CORBA.
Installation
I tested Cerebellum in a single workstation environment on a mid... (more)
Progress Software recently released the second version of its ProtoSpeed
distributed application debugging and monitoring tool for testing and
deploying Internet or intranet applications. ProtoSpeed is actually a
combination of three related but distinct components: a protocol interaction
monitor/debugger, the JWatch remote Java applet debugger from Intermetrics
and an environment for creating custom network monitoring applications.
Installation
ProtoSpeed 2.0 is available now for Windows 95 and Windows NT, with a version
for Solaris in beta testing. I reviewed the Windows version... (more)
Since the introduction of Java and Sun's Java Development Kit over nine
months ago, Mac users have been left out in the cold waiting for their turn
to get the slick GUI development environments. Sun finally came out with the
JDK for the Mac, and now Metrowerks, whose CodeWarrior development
environment has dominated the Macintosh programming tool market, has extended
its reach to include Java with the recent release of CodeWarrior Gold 9. In
this issue the Java Developer's Journal will take a look at CodeWarrior Gold
9 and let you know how it stacks up.
First Impressions
CodeWar... (more)
Roaster Release 3 is the latest version of the Java Macintosh development
environment from Roaster Technologies, a spin-off of long-time Macintosh
developer Natural Intelligence. As an early market leader with a year of
interim developer releases, Roaster's Release 3 is a solid, fully-featured,
professional-quality development environment that integrates a variety of
tools including a project manager, a syntax-sensitive editor, a class source
browser, a class tree viewer, an HTML documentation extractor, a compiler and
a source-level debugger. Release 3 also includes a beta previ... (more)
Jim Mathis is a freelance Java and JavaScript consultant and a communications systems architect. Jim is a contributing writer to Java Developer's Journal and has been active in the Internet community from its very beginnings and wrote one of the first implementations of TCP/IP.
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