Centura's Centura Team Developer 1.5 Supports ActiveX.REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 22, 1998--Centura Software Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :CNTR CNTR Center CNTR Container CNTR Control CNTR Counter )(formerly Gupta Corporation) today announced the availability of Centura Team Developer See Team Developer. (CTD CTD 1 Connective tissue disease, see there 2 Cumulative trauma disorder, see there ) version 1.5 with support for ActiveX objects. This release protects the customer's investment in applications written in SAL, the CTD programming language, while significantly extending CTD openness and connectivity. CTD is the 32-bit version of SQLWindows, Centura's award-winning object oriented 4GL tool used by thousands of programmers to develop large-scale development projects on time and on budget. CTD offers an exceptional combination of productivity, connectivity and openness. It gives development teams the tools they need to deliver scaleable and robust business applications for both Web and Windows client server applications. CTD contains a rich fourth generation language (language) fourth generation language - (4GL, or "report generator language") An "application specific" language, one with built-in knowledge of an application domain, in the way that SQL has built-in knowledge of the relational database domain. (SAL), a full-featured source code and component management system (Team Object Manager), the newly integrated Component Developer's Kit (CDK Cdk cyclin-dependent protein kinase. ) and a variety of other valuable tools. CTD provides native database connectivity to Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, Informix, SQLBase, DB2, CA-OpenIngres and ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) A database programming interface from Microsoft that provides a common language for Windows applications to access databases on a network. . CTD 1.5 introduces support for ActiveX objects and allows developers to call ActiveX objects from any SAL application. Developers can also use Java beans through ActiveX calls in CTD. ActiveX is a set of technologies that enables software components to interact with one another in a networked environment, regardless of the language in which the components were created. This technology is built on top of Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. ) platform. According to Lionel Carrasco, Centura's vice president of business development, "CTD is rapidly becoming recognized as the development tool set of choice for business objects. CTD 1.5 builds upon our recognized strengths in delivering development tools with strong object orientation, reusable code, component management and component based applications. Our development tools have led the industry in these areas. SAL has always produced reusable business logic objects and the CTD Team Object Manager (TOM) has made it easy for programming teams to manage the building and deployment of proprietary SAL components. These are key reasons why CTD has continuously delivered leading edge programmer productivity." Carrasco adds, "CTD 1.5 is significant because it extends these same award-winning benefits to application components that incorporate open-standard ActiveX technology. The next release of CTD should allow programmers to generate COM objects with full Microsoft Transaction Server A TP monitor for Windows NT servers from Microsoft that supports transaction-based applications on LANs, the Internet and intranets. It also serves as the infrastructure for a multi-tier system. It is used in the middle tier between the client and the database server. (MTS) integration." About Centura Software Corporation Since its inception in 1984, Centura has been a leader in providing tools used by developers to design and deploy client/server applications. SQLBase and SQLWindows created the standard for client/server development environment tools used to develop component-based applications and distributed object systems. Centura's current development environment includes SQLBase, SQLBase Exchange, SQLWindows, Centura Team Developer, and Centura net.db. Today, Centura has 26 offices around the world and supports thousands of developers who embed our tools in millions of end user applications around the world. Centura is evolving its client/server products to be Web capable and Mobile ready. Current Centura products are all Year 2000 compliant a. 1. (Computers) having dates fully and properly represented, and not susceptible to failure due to the year 2000 bug. .
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