E' arrivato in redazione questo messaggio di Pual White responsabile marketing di Symantec: Paul ci parla dei loro nuovi prodotti di prossima uscita. Siamo riusciti anche a preparare una mini intervista in tempo record che pubblichiamo in questo numero -vedi qui -, per carpire qualche informazione aggiuntiva sulle prossime iniziative della casa in giallo....
"With a whole collection of new products about to ship things are getting relly exciting! If you haven't tried out the FREE Preview versions of these products available from the Symantec website then download them today (also available on CD ROM) at <http://cafe.symantec.com.> International Product Ship Dates (Boxed product based on the master release date from the USA. Products will be available on-line sooner) Visual Café Win95/NT 16th December Visual Café Pro Win95/NT 1st January Visual Page Mac 6th January Visual Café Pro Win95/NT 23rd December (?) C++ 7.5 Win 2nd December Cafe 1.5 Mac 6th January Visual Cafe Mac 6th January Informaton including Data Sheets, White Papers, Reviewers Guide and FREE Preview Versions are all available on the website at <http://cafe.symantec.com.> Pricing C++ Win95/NT prices reduced
New Products: Visual Cafe, Visual Cafe Pro and Visual Page.
Awards C++ 7.2 Win PC Magazine Editors Choice Cafe 1.5 Win95/NT PC Magazine Technical Excellence Award Nomination (Internet & Devtools) Deals
Netscape endorse Visual Cafe for Netscape ONE platform and will jointly market the produdct. Netscape licence JIT for future browsers.
List of Authorised Training Centres to be included in Cafe/Visual Cafe boxes (nominations please)
10K Visual Cafe mailer to UK Cafe/C++/& prospects hits 27th November
1000 orders for "Test Drive" of Visual Cafe in Germany Events Softdev/Webdev UK 27-29 November 3000 attendess Collateralls
CD ROM available - Visual Cafe Win95/NT Preview 2 & Mac Preview 1 -
Box Shots, Screen Shots and Logos of all new products available from the Symantec Image Library on: Tel: +44 (0)1895 257946 Fax: +44 (0)1895 251505 E-mail:100144.1524@compuserve.com Technical Support -
New FAQ, Knowledgebase & Tips/Tricks sections available on the Symantec website at <http://www.symantec.com> -
New Tech Support Newsgroups for all shipping products use your news browser to access: service.symantec.com -
Product Updates available from Symantec Customer Services if you have download problems..."\
Il giorno 11 Novembre scorso si è tenuto a Milano il Borland Day organizzato dalla Borland Italia in cui erano invitati i giornalisti del settore. Grazie ad una registrazione dell'ultimo momento offertoci dal direttore di Infomedia (A.Pedone) eravamo presenti anche noi.
Relatore d'eccezione era David Intersimone cheaf evangelist della Borland che ci ha parlato delle nuove strategie tecnico-commerciali della casa, ed in particolare ci ha dato un breve assaggio di quello che si può fare coi loro nuovi potenti tools. L'aggettivo potenti è forse riduttivo, ma il giudizio lo rimandiamo a quando sarà possibile testate con mano i prodotti.
Abbiamo potuto vedere all'opera i nuovi tool di sviluppo visuali (vero visual!!) per C++ (nome in codice Ebony), Delphi 3 (nome in codice Ivory) e Open JBuilder (ex Lattè).
L'impressione che ci siamo fatti è quella di prodotti veramente potenti, flessibili, interoperanti fra loro. La facilità d'uso è senz'altro uno dei punti di forza di questi nuovi pacchetti. I pacchetti sono veramente visuali e del tutto interoperanti: si può ad esempio scrivere l'interfaccia in OPascal ed il core in C++ e collegare il tutto insieme; avete inoltre bisogno di allacciare il vostro applicativo al web? Pooca fatica a integrare codice Java. Tutti i pacchetti sono finalmente supportano lo sviluppo 2-way (l'ambiente in maniera visuale crea per voi il codice, ma ogni modifica che farete voi con l'ultimo dei text editor ad un file si ripercuote immediatamte nelle variabili d'ambiente). Tutti e tre i prodotti presentano la stessa interfaccia dell'ambiente di sviluppo: forse all'inizio potrà disorientare lo sviluippatore meno esperto, ma certo è questa una caratteristica che alla lunga rende le cose più facili.
La strategia di Borland sarà quella di essere presenti in ogni settore dello sviluppo software. L'obiettivo è quello di essere il punto di riferimento nello sviluppo cross-platform, web-based, e multi-livello.
OpenJBuilder permette di realizzare progetti partendo dall'applet web ad applicazioni db-connect ad architetture client/server e distribuito. Il rilascio di OpenJBuilder (nome definitivo di Latte) è stato ritardato da alcuni problemi burocratici per il copyright per i Java Beans la libreria di oggetti riutilizzabili. Sembra che questa nuova libreria sia completa per risolvere ogni problema, compreso il tanto misterioso DBMS. Una beta del prodotto sarà disponibile entro il 31 dicembre prossimo sul sito da cui sarà possibile inoltre scaricare anche FAQ, white paper, fact sheets e una evaluator's guide. (<http://www.borland.com>)
Riportiamo qui sotto il file zippato della presentazione Power Point che ci è stata presentata da David Intersimone.
Latte.zip (~21Kb)
Finalmente una novità degna di questo nome. I bene informati ci dicono che
"....JDK 1.1 will be released in beta Dec. 9 (Monday). "
Saremo pronti per il prossimo numero di Gennaio a scrivervi quelle che sono le novità più interessanti di questo nuovo pacchetto...
Intanto eccovi quanto riportato nella pagina di presentazione che per comodità vi abbiamo in parte riportato qui di seguito (cosa non si farebbe per i lettori....)
- JavaSoft Announces JDKTM 1.1, Including Stringent Compatibility Tests
Mountain View, CA - December 3, 1996 - Sun Microsystems, Inc.'s JavaSoft business unit today announced major quality, performance and feature enhancements to the JavaTM platform. Since it's introduction less than a year and a half ago, Java has become the industry's open, platform-independent standard for developing software applications for network computing.
The Java Development Kit (JDKTM)1.1, which includes new versions of the JavaTM Virtual Machine, Java class libraries, and development tools, will incorporate support for developing and deploying applications in international languages and major enhancements to the abstract windowing toolkit.
JDK 1.1 also adds several new features in high demand among Java developers, including JDBCTM for database connectivity, RMI for remote object access, and foundation support for JavaBeansTM component development. Applications created with previous versions of the JDK are fully compatible with JDK 1.1, which will ship the first quarter of 1997. The JDK 1.1 beta will be available for download on December 9, 1996 at http://java.sun.com.
The JDK plus JavaOSTM and HotJavaTM Views, the recently announced "webtop" user environment, are the foundation technologies for JavaTM Computing.
"We published an ambitious timeline for Java in May and we're now delivering on that promise," said Jon Kannegaard, vice president of software products at JavaSoft. "Every step we've taken during 1996 -- from JDBC to JavaBeans -- has been designed to satisfy developer demand to create the ideal network computing platform. And we didn't build it alone -- we are working with more than 100 collaborators to evolve the Java platform quickly, based on best-of-breed industry technologies."
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- The Java Platform Matures
JDK 1.1 provides a complete platform for developing and deploying network-based applications throughout enterprises and across the Internet. Many Java licensees are at work now developing products that incorporate JDK 1.1. (see addendum for quotes). Significant new features include:
Global Language Support JDK 1.1 includes APIs that offer internationalization capabilities based on the Unicode 2.0 character set standard. This important new feature enables developers to ship applications that can be adapted to specific languages around the world. Dramatically improved AWT JDK 1.1 features a re-architected abstract windowing toolkit that performs strongly across all operating systems. The AWT lets Java applications take on the look and feel of the user interface of the underlying operating system. The new AWT includes a revised graphical user interface (GUI) foundation that enables developers to create high-performance sophisticated GUI applications and applets that perform especially well in popular PC environments. Robust new features JDK 1.1 includes JDBC, the de facto industry standard for creating platform-independent interfaces to enterprise databases; Java RMI, which enables objects running on one Java Virtual Machine to connect to objects running remotely on another Java Virtual Machine; and Java Security APIs, which augment the Java "sandbox" security model that strongly restricts how an applet may interact with an end users' system with digital signatures and other new capabilities to allow developers to create robust, flexible security policies that would allow designated Java applets to interact with an end users' system.
JDK 1.1 also includes the Java Archive Format (JAR), to bundle applets for easier download; Java Native Method Interface (JNI), to allow Java to call up native libraries; reflection, providing a secure means to access the objects at runtime; serialization, to convert objects into a stream of bytes that can be saved, stored, and later used to create equivalent objects; and several other features that are further described in the JDK white paper at <http://java.sun.com/products/JDK/1.1/designspecs/>.
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- Extensive Test Suites Ensure Complete, Compatible Java Platform
To move the industry toward total compatibility on implementations of the Java Virtual Machine and APIs, JavaSoft has an extensive compatibility testing program. With JDK 1.1, JavaSoft will ship to its licensees more than 5,000 tests based on published specifications to ensure that every implementation of Java performs as the Java specifications dictates that it should. Every licensees' products must comply with the full specification for JDK 1.1.
"There is nothing more important to us than a ubiquitous, compatible Java platform that fulfills its \`write-once-run-anywhere' promise," said Kannegaard. "That means a lot of work at JavaSoft to guide the industry. We've devoted enormous resources to developing robust and demanding tests to ensure that Java does indeed do what we say it will do -- in every implementation, on every platform."
The JDK 1.1 beta will be available on December 9, 1996 at <http://java.sun.com/> for SPARCTM systems running SolarisTM and for x86 systems running Windows 95 and Windows NT. The final release of JDK 1.1 will deliver support for SPARC systems running Solaris, for x86 systems running, Solaris, Windows 95, and Windows NT, for MacOS, and for JavaOSTM. JDK 1.1 will be ported by Java licensees to run in many other system environments.
Questa la parte inerente il JDK 1.1. Il resto della pagina è comunque visionabile presso <http://www.javasoft.com/pr/1996/dec/pr961203-01.html>.