George DiGiacomo

IBM Corp. Wednesday released a free Java-based software toolkit that enables a new class of applications known as Web intermediaries to control the flow and customization of Web data. IBM’s Web Intermediary (WBI) Developer Kit for Java provides a framework for creating intermediary applications which can monitor and modify the flow of Web data between […]

Macromedia Wednesday released Flash 4, the new version of its Flash authoring software. New features include integrated support for high-fidelity MP3 streaming audio and commands for creating sites with interactivity. In addition, Flash 4 contains a revamped authoring environment to help create bandwidth-efficient Flash Web sites. Flash creates vector-based Web sites that aim to deliver […]

InfoAccess Tuesday released HTML Transit 4 which includes new features such as XML support, Cascading Style Sheets and integration with Web site technologies such as Java and ASP. HTML Transit is designed to automate the creation and maintenance of Web sites from standard business documents. When content in the standard business documents changes, HTML Transit […]

Elemental Software Monday released its Drumbeat 2000 JavaServer Pages Edition for IBM WebSphere server. Drumbeat 2000 (JSP) brings integrated support for JSP and JavaBeans to Drumbeat’s WYSIWYG development environment. It offers Websphere users a visual tool for building applications that incorporate dynamic Web interfaces to databases and other sophisticated functionality without coding. Drumbeat 2000 (JSP) […]

Bluestone Software Wednedsay announced plans to give away 3,000 copies of Bluestone Visual-XML, a toolkit for building XML applications. During the JavaOne ’99 show in San Francisco, June 15-18, Bluestone will be giving away 2,900 free copies at its booth No. 612 on the show floor. The additional 100 free copies of Bluestone Visual-XML will […]

IBM this week launched a beta version of its new developerWorks Web site and is soliciting the developer community for input. developerWorks aims to be IBM’s single entry point for the developer community by providing access to information, technology and support from IBM. Each area — including news, tools and code, standards, and education — […]

Monday marks the release date for Microsoft Corp.’s Office 2000, which will include new features that Microsoft hopes will increase the number of people who publish their own Web pages. The four cornerstone applications of Office — Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint — all now support HTML as a native file format and all Office […]

NetBeans Friday unveiled the next generation of its cross-platform integrated development environments. Written entirely in Java, NetBeans Developer Enterprise 3.0 merges a cross-platform development environment with enterprise middleware based on Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs), CORBA, remote method invocation (RMI) and XML standards. The product has a modular, open architecture which extends the development environment by […]

ActiveState and Microsoft recently signed a three-year agreement for a Perl Open Source development and support contract. As part of the agreement, ActiveState will add features to Windows ports of Perl, as well as support for Unicode on Windows platforms, a feature for users utilizing Asian language content. Some amount of the development effort is […]

Bluestone Software Thursday released Sapphire/Web Release 6.1, the latest version of its platform-independent, pure Java application server for enterprise-class Internet commerce. With Sapphire/Web Release 6.1, Bluestone continues to support the JavaServer Pages 1.0 specification and the Java Servlet API, two components of Sun’s Enterprise Java technologies. It also provides distributed JSP and Java Servlet engines […]

COAST Software Inc. and Sane Solutions LLC Wednesday released COAST WebMaster Pro 4.1, a site management package for corporate Webmasters and marketing professionals. COAST WebMaster Pro combines web site traffic reporting with site mapping, analysis, verification and deployment features in one package. COAST WebMaster Pro is positioned as a competitor to the WebTrends Professional Suite […]

BulletProof Corp. released JDesignerPro 3.01 with new features to allow developers working on NetWare networks to visually build Java client applications over Novell Directory Services (NDS). Also included in the release are installers for Linux, Solaris, HPUX, AIX, and Mac. JDesignerPro 3.01 was recently fully tested on RedHat Linux 6.0. JDesignerPro is a design tool […]