Bluestone Software Introduces Sapphire/Web Enhancement Pak I Increasing Developer Productivity for Large-Scale Enterprise Applications.MOUNT LAUREL, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 17, 1997--Bluestone Software Inc. Monday introduced Sapphire/Web Enhancement Pak I bringing new features, functionality and deployment flexibility to Sapphire/Web Version 4 -- including: Sapphire/Web Universal Client and Auto Client Sensing, which allow developers to optimize productivity and Web content distribution in a heterogeneous environment Using hardware and system software from different vendors. Organizations often use computers, operating systems and databases from a variety of vendors. Contrast with homogeneous environment. ; additional wizard-based Java GUI Builder Visual programming software that lets a user build a graphical user interface by dragging and dropping elements from a toolbar onto the screen. It may be a stand-alone program or part of an application development system or client/server development system. integrations to complementary Java tools; and updates for the latest open middleware solutions from Visigenic and Iona. These features address the needs of enterprise developers creating large-scale data-driven applications to huge communities of users. Today, application developers must deal with a multitude of technologies and deployment issues as they consider how to best develop and distribute content over a wide variety of devices and network infrastructures. Faced with increasing divergence in the browser market, developers need to be able to customize their applications and the deployment of those applications on the fly. Sapphire/Web has incorporated a solution to these issues into Enhancement Pak 1. Sapphire/Web Enhancement Pak 1 Highlights Sapphire/Web Universal Client -- Provides the ability for applications to display a different user interface (Java, HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. , JavaScript, JScript, ActiveX, Dynamic HTML (1) A general term for (HTML pages) Web pages that are customized for each user; for example, returning different values from a search. Contrast with a "static HTML" page, which is the same for all users. See dynamic Web page. , etc.) based on the client browser and/or browser location (Internet, intranet, extranet). Sapphire/Web developers now can optimize delivery of their content based on attributes of the requesting browser. This functionality lays the groundwork for the future when end user environments will go beyond browsers to other types of networked devices and services. Automatic Client Sensing -- Provides information beyond just browser type and version. With this enhancement, users can now capture details a bout the version of layered software being used, such as Java and Javascript. This is important to be able to determine if a browser supports, for example, Java's JDK (Java Development Kit) A Java software development environment from Sun. It includes the JVM, compiler, debugger and other tools for developing Java applets and applications. Each new version of the JDK adds features and enhancements to the language. 1.1. Sapphire/Web Universal Editor -- Provides enhanced functionality to greatly ease the burden of writing Dynamic HTML (dHTML) that will work with both Netscape and IE 4.0 browsers. With this Enhancement Pak, Sapphire/Web fully supports HTML 4.0 including Cascading Style Sheets A style sheet format for HTML documents endorsed by the World Wide Web Consortium. CSS1 (Version 1.0) provides hundreds of layout settings that can be applied to all the subsequent HTML pages that are downloaded. CSS2 (Version 2. and the new dHTML Object Model: Objects, Collections, Methods, and Properties. Also included are hundreds of new tags for Java scripting, VB scripting, I.E. 4.0 scriptlets, and more. Added Java GUI Builder Integrations to Client Objects Framework -- Sapphire/Web continues its leadership position in creating a plug-and-play environment that is open to a variety of tools by integrating the following Java GUI Builders into our Client Objects Framework: Visual J++ 1.0 and 1.1 Visual Cafe A family of Java development products formerly from the WebGain division of Symantec and sold to TogetherSoft Corporation in 2002, which was acquired by Borland in 2003. Versions for Windows and the Macintosh were available that included a host of Java components and features for rapidly 1.0 and 2.0 Cafe 1.0 JBuilder 1.0 VisualAge 1.0 SuperCede Verb 1. supercede - take the place or move into the position of; "Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left"; "the computer has supplanted the slide rule"; "Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school" 1.2 JavaWorkShop 1.0 and 2.0 The Sapphire/Web Java Class Wizard allows data exchange with arbitrary components, including Beans. This provides users a very robust Java development environment that works in close concert with Sapphire/Web to create enterprise-level Java-to-database applications. Support for latest release of Visigenic Visibroker and Iona Orbix/Web -- Provides compatability with the Visibroker 3.0 and the Orbix/Web 3.0 releases. Sapphire/Web continues to bundle Visibroker for Java free of charge, so that out-of-the-box without any configuration hassles, developers can immediately develop, deploy, and manage enterprise-scale Web applications using Java and IIOP (Internet Inter-ORB Protocol) The CORBA message protocol used on a TCP/IP network (Internet, intranet, etc.). CORBA is the industry standard for distributed objects, which allows programs (objects) to be run remotely in a network. . Availability Sapphire/Web Enhancement Pak I is available as of Nov. 17 at Bluestone bluestone, common name for the blue, crystalline heptahydrate of cupric sulfate called chalcanthite, a minor ore of copper. It also refers to a fine-grained, light to dark colored blue-gray sandstone. Software's Web site: http://www.bluestone.com . Users can simply plug the Enhancement Pak into an existing Sapphire/Web installation to immediately begin using these capabilities. With Sapphire/Web's plug-and-play architecture, developers experience increased functionality and flexibility with no downtime. This is a free upgrade to Bluestone customers under their maintenance contract. About Sapphire/Web 4.0 Sapphire/Web bridges the gap between client/server and Web tools, providing the missing pieces needed to develop highly scalable enterprise-class Java applications, including platform independence, 100% Pure Java Refers to initiatives from Sun that specify 100% compliance with its Java specification. The goal is to maintain a consistent, single interface for Java so that all Java Virtual Machines can run all Java programs. See Holy Grail. and Java custom coding, middleware for scalability, portability, and manageability, database transaction processing with built-in support for Oracle, Informix, Sybase, SQL Server, DB2. Sapphire/Web applications are robust, highly portable, scalable and easily distributed. A complete development environment supports a range of languages, including Java, C/C C/C Center to Center C/C Combustion Chamber C/C Command/Control C/C Crew Chief C/C cabin cruiser (US DoD) C/C chief complaint (medical) C/C Channel-to-Channel C/C Communication and Collaboration ++, JavaScript and VBScript. Sapphire/Web provides dynamic load balancing and dynamic server swapping for high availability. Applications are delivered with no run-time costs. Sapphire/Web's visual IDE enhances developer productivity and delivers robust deployment and management features. It is a comprehensive environment for building enterprise Internet/intranet/extranet applications. About Bluestone Software Inc. Named to Inc. Magazine's annual list of the 500 fastest growing private companies in the USA for the years 1994, 1995, 1996, Bluestone has renamed itself Bluestone Software Inc. (BSI BSI - British Standards Institute ). The cornerstone of BSI's offerings is its award-winning Sapphire/Web, a leading Java-and Web-to-database development solution. BSI has formed strategic partnerships with leading software companies such as Oracle, Microsoft, Netscape, Sun Microsystems, Informix, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Open Market and others. More than 50 percent of Fortune 500 companies use Bluestone Software products. Major accounts include Dreyfus Corp., Eli Lilly, MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. , Reliance National, Thomson Consumer Electronics, and Time Inc. Bluestone Software Inc. is located at 1000 Briggs Road, Mount Laurel, New Jersey 08054, phone 609/727-4600, fax 609/727-5077, and can be found at http://www.bluestone.com on the World Wide Web. -0- Bluestone and Sapphire/Web are registered trademarks of Bluestone Software Inc. Java and JDBC (Java DataBase Connectivity) A programming interface that lets Java applications access a database via the SQL language. Since Java interpreters (Java Virtual Machines) are available for all major client platforms, this allows a platform-independent database are registered trademarks of sun Microsystems. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Bluestone Software Inc. Anastasia Bullinger, 609/727-4600, fax 609/727-4600 ab@bluestone.com www.bluestone.com |
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