Instantiations Adds Support for IBM VisualAge for Java to its New VA Assist Enterprise Product Family.Business Editors PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 2000 VA Assist Enterprise/J Adds Powerful ENVY Management, Code Development and GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. Building Enhancements to IBM's Award-Winning VisualAge for Java Development Environment Instantiations, Inc. today announced VA Assist Enterprise/J -- a new member of its popular VA Assist Enterprise(TM) product family. VA Assist Enterprise/J complements IBM's award-winning VisualAge(a) for Java Enterprise Edition, the most productive Java development environment in use today. At the same time, Instantiations announces VA Assist Professional, which provides complementary functionality to VisualAge for Java Professional Edition. VA Assist Enterprise/J integrates seamlessly into the familiar VisualAge for Java browsers and Composition Editor, adding over a hundred new productivity features and commands. Features such as enhanced repository management functions, integrated drag-and-drop, version renaming and improved import/export capabilities are just of few examples of the powerful capabilities provided. As a result, VA Assist Enterprise/J helps streamline and enhance the entire development effort, substantially reducing development costs and time-to-market while increasing developer productivity along the way. The new Java product joins Instantiations' highly popular VA Assist Enterprise/G and /S products which respectively support VisualAge Generator and VisualAge Smalltalk. "The improvements Instantiations has made to ENVY are incredible," said Genna Reingold, Senior Technical Consultant, Mynd (formerly PMSC PMSC Policy Management Systems Corporation PMSC Political Military Steering Committee PMSC Peterborough Motor Sports Club PMSC Professional Media Service Corporation PMSC Private Military and Security Company PMSC Pilipinong Migrante Sa Canada ). "I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. if I can ever again use VisualAge for Java, Enterprise Edition without VA Assist Enterprise/J." "As a leading software development and consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a for the insurance and financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. industry, developer productivity is crucial to the success of our business," said Peter Gassmann, Software Engineer, FJA FJA Functional Job Analysis FJA Florida Justice Association (formerly Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers) FJA Feilmeier & Junker AG (German stock corporation) FJA Fellowship of Jewish Athletes AG. "Most of our developers working with VisualAge for Java Professional Edition spend more than 50% of their work-time in the development environment. So the time saving features in VA Assist Professional like drag-and-drop, color highlighting and advanced searching are indispensable to us." "Speed-to-market is crucial for companies trying to stay competitive and maintain marketshare in today's e-business arena. The ability to quickly create, test and deploy scalable Java-based applications is a critical part of any successful e-business strategy," said Paraic Sweeney, vice president, Business Transformation, 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) Software Group. "As a product that seamlessly integrates into VisualAge for Java, VA Assist Enterprise/J represents a significant addition to our market-leading IDE (1) (Integrated Development Environment) A set of programs run from a single user interface. For example, programming languages often include a text editor, compiler and debugger, which are all activated and function from a common menu. . Enterprise customers who rely on VisualAge for Java to build their mission-critical applications will welcome VA Assist Enterprise/J's unique added value Added value in financial analysis of shares is to be distinguished from value added. Used as a measure of shareholder value, calculated using the formula:
"We are pleased to add VisualAge for Java support to our new VA Assist Enterprise product family. Instantiations is uniquely equipped to provide these types of products, as we fully understand the requirements surrounding Java application A Java program that is run stand alone. The Java Virtual Machine in the client or server is interpreting the instructions. Contrast with Java applet. See servlet. development and deployment," said Mike Taylor, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Instantiations. "With this new capability, VisualAge for Java developers get the richest environment possible for building Java-based e-business systems and applications for the enterprise." Key Features of VA Assist Enterprise/J Include: -- Seamless integration An addition of a new application, routine or device that works smoothly with the existing system. It implies that the new feature or program can be installed and used without problems. Contrast with "transparent," which implies that there is no discernible change after installation. of over 100 new features and commands -- ENVY power tools and enhancements -- GUI building productivity tools -- Powerful new development tools -- Flexible administration and customization -- Time-saving table and grid components Pricing and Availability VA Assist Enterprise/J and VA Assist Professional are available for immediate purchase. Special JavaOne show pricing for both products will be available from June 5 through June 16. For additional information or pricing on these products please contact our sales department at 800/808-3737 or by email at sales@instantiations.com. VA Assist Enterprise products from Instantiations are also available for IBM VisualAge VisualAge was the name of a family of computer integrated development environments from IBM, which included support for a few popular (and not so popular) computer programming languages. Early history VisualAge was born in the IBM development lab in Cary, North Carolina. Generator and VisualAge Smalltalk. Developers may download a free 30-day evaluation copy of all available products from Instantiations' web site located at http://www.instantiations.com/assist. About VisualAge for Java IBM's award-winning VisualAge for Java leads the industry with the most advanced support for building Web-enabled enterprise applications, JavaBeans, Enterprise JavaBeans See EJB. (specification, business, programming) Enterprise JavaBeans - (EJB) A server-side component architecture for writing reusable business logic and portable enterprise applications. EJB is the basis of Sun's Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE). , servlets and applets. It is the only Java development environment that supports the development of Java applications that can scale from embedded systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. to OS/390 enterprise application servers. VisualAge for Java is designed to simplify Java application development by providing a powerful development environment that enables customers to grow their e-business through unsurpassed connectivity to existing applications. Superior support for building Java applications that target WebSphere and an efficient team development environment make VisualAge for Java the enterprise choice for developers. All the latest news on IBM's application development tools, including VisualAge for Java, can be found at http://www.ibm.com/software/ad. About Instantiations Instantiations, Inc. provides leading edge software products, services, and technologies for Java. As an advanced-level IBM Business Partner, the company specializes in helping its clients build and deploy very high performance software systems. Based in Tualatin, Ore., Instantiations was founded by a team of internationally recognized pioneers in the field of component software technology. Vulcan Ventures, Inc. the investment organization of Paul G. Allen, holds a minority ownership position in Instantiations. Instantiations can be reached at 800/808-3737. More information may be found at http://www.instantiations.com. Instantiations, VA Assist Enterprise and VA Assist Professional are trademarks of Instantiations, Inc. (a)Indicates trademark or registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective companies. |
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