Chili!Soft Bridges the Interoperability Gap Between Java and COM.

BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 5, 1998--

Chili!Beans Technology Allows Web Developers to

Integrate Java Objects Seamlessly Into

Cross-Platform Active Server Pages 

Chili!Soft(TM), Inc., (www.chilisoft.com) the pioneer of cross-platform Active Server Pages (ASP) -- the mainstream Web application platform -- today announced Chili!Beans(TM), a COM (Component Object Model) to Java bridge that enables Java(TM) objects to be seamlessly incorporated into COM-based business applications.

Chili!Beans allows Java programmers to build business logic in Java objects and integrate them with ASP Web applications running on either Windows(R) NT(R) or UNIX, thus creating a truly open Web application platform.

With Chili!Beans, companies can tap developers with Java expertise to create ASP-compatible objects without requisite knowledge of COM. The technology is designed to work with any version of Java that implements the JNI 1.1(Java Native Interface) specification.

Companies will now be able to draw from growing pools of talented Java and ASP programmers to rapidly develop dynamic, mission-critical Web applications. This gives corporate managers flexibility in allocating developer resources while significantly shortening development cycles.

"Chili!Beans enables corporate developers who write applications in ASP to use Java classes, including JavaBeans, within those applications," said Charles Crystle, chief technology officer of Chili!Soft.

"Corporations can now use Chili!ASP and Chili!Beans to deploy ASP applications with tightly integrated Java objects on UNIX or Windows NT Web servers. The result is a new class of Web application that leverages the elegance of Java and the great benefits of a scalable ASP framework."

Product Availability

Chili!Beans technology will be available within the Chili!ASP application server by the end of 1998. Chili!Beans, within Chili!ASP will run on Netscape Enterprise(TM), Netscape FastTrack(TM), Lotus Domino(TM), Lotus Go Webserver(TM), and IBM ICSS Web servers for Windows NT, as well as Netscape Enterprise and Netscape FastTrack Web servers for Sun Solaris (SPARC) (See Chili!ASP for Unix announcement 10.5.98.)

All versions of the software are available for customers to purchase and download at www.chilisoft.com.

About ASP

Active Server Pages (ASP) is an open Web application platform that combines server scripting with custom server components to create dynamic content in Web-based business applications. With ASP, developers can build browser independent Web solutions and publish legacy databases to the Web.

ASP is designed to be easy to learn, accommodating developers of varying skill sets and expertise, and allowing corporate IT managers to more effectively allocate scarce developer resources. There are more than 250,000 ASP developers, over 300 companies producing ASP components and applications, and approximately 23,000 public Web sites using ASP.

Microsoft has adopted ASP as the application server framework for Internet Information Server (IIS) on Windows NT. About Chili!ASP

Chili!ASP enables ASP on other Web servers and operating systems, making it the first open, cross-platform Web application platform based on Active Server Pages (ASP) architecture.

Chili!ASP is supported by industry leading Web development tools such as Microsoft Visual InterDev(TM), Elemental Drumbeat(TM), NetObjects ScriptBuilder(TM), and Sybase Powersite(TM), and provides ASP functionality to Netscape, Lotus, IBM and other Web servers.

About Chili!Soft

Chili!Soft, Inc. is a privately held, pioneer provider of enabling technologies and applications for Active Server Pages (ASP), the leading Web application platform.

Chili!Soft products include Chili!ASP, which enables ASP applications across heterogeneous computing environments such as Windows NT, UNIX, and soon AIX and OS/390, on multiple Web servers; and Chili!Reports, a robust enterprise reporting system that writes database information into an Excel spreadsheet and delivers it to Web browsers.

Chili!Soft was founded in 1994 with headquarters in Bellevue. For more information about the company, please visit the Chili!Soft Web site at www.chilisoft.com or call 425/957-1122.

Note to Editors: Chili!Soft, Chili!ASP, & Chili!Reports are trademarks of Chili!Soft, Inc. IBM, S/390, and OS/390 are trademarks or registered trademarks of the IBM Corporation. All other products mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective companies. Features and specifications are subject to change.