The ability to add TCP/IP communications capability to your PowerBuilder applications can make you a valuable member of any development team. In the past, developers have relied on skills which required low-level coding and a steep learning curve. This might include making difficult ca...

Sun's Java WorkShop, the most important product to enter the Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE), is a powerful integrated toolkit that allows quick and easy cross-platform application development in Java. Sun Microsystems, whose JavaSoft group created Java, has taken its tim...

Asymetrix SuperCede for Java is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Java development on Windows 32 platforms. The IDE includes a C++ compiler for making native methods. SuperCede is the first product available to make Intel x86 executable code directly from Java source.

On today's Internet, a Web site cannot afford to be old fashioned. An antique Web site is a dusty, unvisited vestige of yesteryear. Today's sites have to be interactive, multimedia experiences that create a lasting impression...sites that will get revisited often. The software industry...

"Special Edition Using Java," published by Que, should win the prize as the biggest Java reference book on the market. It is huge, containing a wealth of information on Java and complementing topics like JavaScript and multimedia. It is based on Java Version 1.0 for MS Windo...

The Microline Component Toolkit (MCT) is a powerful new product with years of experience behind it. Designed for professional developers, but usable by even a novice, the MCT brings new levels of GUI sophistication to Java, and for the first time brings professional UNIX-style componen...

Web browsers are a way of life for many of us. For some, a day without using a browser would be a day off. Others may use the Web for entertainment, research, homework, or just a break from the routine. Regardless of how often you use a browser, at one point you had to make a decision ...

The ability to author a program or applet on one computer system and have it run on many different platforms is a paramount strength of Java and its suitability for the Internet. This strength, however, introduces weaknesses in some areas of the implementation that limit Java's usabili...

While a lot of Java development has been happening in the last few months, Java's learning curve has still put many a company's project on hold while developers learn to master the language. By the time the developers have caught up, new techniques and products come along. Now, we have...

Most of us have seen a standalone Java application of one sort or another. But few of us have seen any commercial applications of serious merit yet... until now, that is. CADIS has just released Krakatoa, the object-oriented client/server search and retrieval development program. Kraka...

PERC is the embodiment of the technologies described in last month's article. PERC is a commercial clean-room implementation of Java designed specifically to address the needs of developers of embedded and real-time systems.The PERC acronym stands for Portable Executive for Reliable Co...

"Well, Jim, the Web pages look pretty good, but they remind me of a food line at a delicatessen. Lots of food, but nothing looks like it belongs with anything else." "But boss, I put in all the information that you wanted!" "Yes, but I want our pages to have a ...

Since the introduction of Java and Sun's Java Development Kit over nine months ago, Mac users have been left out in the cold waiting for their turn to get the slick GUI development environments. Sun finally came out with the JDK for the Mac, and now Metrowerks, whose CodeWarrior develo...

In early March of this year, Sun Microsystems' software company, JavaSoft, specified a standard SQL database access interface, the JDBC API. Java developers everywhere were finally given a tool to connect their applets and applications to databases, via the JDBC API. The API provided J...

Since the release of Sun's Java Development Kit last year, developers have been limited to using the command line interface to develop Java applets and applications. There have been a few Integrated Development Environments available from independent developers, but until now no major ...

When Java Development tools initially appeared on the market, Mac programmers were some of the last people to have tools available to them. While Sun chose to release the JDK for most popular platforms, it waited quite a while before releasing the MacJDK. A variety of third party devel...