Sun's also posted version 2.0 of the JDBC database access API.
Sun's also released version 1.0 of the Java Embedded Server, a small footprint network server for real-time deployment and installation of applications to remote embedded devices.
Netscape's released version 3.0.5 of the Netscape Directory SDK for Java version 3.0 of the Netscape Directory SDK for C. Both products allow you to write programs that talk to LDAP servers.
IBM's alphaWorks has released version 1.5 of Skij, a Scheme interpreter written in Java. This version fixes assorted bugs and lets you launch Java applets from inside Skij.
AlphaWorks has also released new Java beans for managing files, filtering images, and scrolling large images.
Sun has posted the second draft of the Java Card 2.1 Application Programming Interface (API) specification.
Sun's also posted version 1.0 of the Java Speech API. This is only a specification. Implementations rely on third party vendors like alphaWorks.
IBM's released HotMedia, a Java-based toolkit for streaming media (audio, video, and animations). HotMedia is free for individual Web sites but will be licensed the technology to ISVs like Macromedia who want to build it into their products. to incorporate it into their products.
JSci.physics.Constants
to JSci.physics.PhysicalConstants
Markus Kuhn has expanded his public domain, ISO 10646-1/Unicode version of the old "fixed" font that comes with the X11 Windows System to around around 2500 characters, including all European characters of the commonly used 8-bit character sets plus a good selection of mathematical, phonetic alphabet, and other symbols.
Bill LaForge has released version 3.0 of Coins, his XML based scheme for serializing Java objects. This version is supposed to be easier to use, and is no longer free for developers.
Sun's also posted an early access version of a JavaMail POP3 provider on the Java Developer Connection.
Dan Brumleve's uncovered another, minor security hole in Netscape. This one can crash Unix versions of Navigator from 3.x to 4.5.
I've noted several new errata in Java Network Programming and have added them to the corrections pages.
IBM's alphaWorks has been busy. New and updated products include:
- A P3P protocol
parser and constructor written in Java.
The
com.ibm.p3ppackage contains classes and methods for parsing, generating, manipulating and evaluating P3P proposals and responses. - A
RuleBasedNumberFormat
for Java that provides an internationalizable way of writing out numeric
values like 14 in words like "fourteen". RuleBasedNumberFormat
puts number-spellout descriptions in resources, so you don't
have to rewrite and recompile your program for each localized
version. Number-spellout rules for several common languages are included.
- A StringSearch
Java library for sorting and searching international, Unicode text.
- JHelper, a Javabean for helper systems and tool tips.
- An updated version of
the Install Toolkit for Java
to support added and enhanced privileges on Unix-based platforms,
and allow any user on Windows32, OS/2 and
Linux to install codes. This release also fixes assorted bugs.
- An updated version (1.38) of
the IRC Client for Java
that adds some minor features including a .ini file
format for managing multiple server settings and new moderation
control.
JavaBeans: Developing Component Software in Java is
now available in Japanese.
I've made substantial updates to Week 4, More Objects, of my Introduction to Java course. The examples of inheritance are now much more realistic.
Larry Wall, the creator of many popular free software programs including perl, rn, and patch, has won the first Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software. Congratulations Larry!
The W3C has released version 1.3b of the experimental Amaya web browser/editor for Windows and Linux. This release supports most of HTML 4.0. Amaya's most notable feature is limited support for MathML.
Sun has released version 0.92 of Java Server Pages for Unix and Windows. This release makes a few minor changes to the API.
Sun's posted JavaWallet early access release 2b for Solaris on the Java Developer's Connection. This fixes a few bugs, mostly related to installation.
Markus Kuhn has created a public domain, ISO 10646-1/Unicode version of the old "fixed" font that comes with the X11 Windows System that covers around 1900 characters, including all European characters of the commonly used 8-bit character sets plus a good selection of mathematical, phonetic alphabet, and other symbols.
Version 0.3.9 of alphaworks'
Jikes Java compiler
features assorted bug fixes, including single-class-import declarations
for classes in the unnamed package (e.g. import MyClass;)
IBM's alphaWorks has released two new products. First off is TFTP Server for Java, a pure Java Implementation of the Trivial File Transfer Protocol server. (Is anybody still using this? I thought TFTP fell out of favor years ago.) On NT, it will run as a service.
Second are the ArchiveAccessor JavaBeans, a suite of invisible beans for working with jar and zip archives.
Juan Carlos Garcia Cuartango has uncovered a new security hole in Internet Explorer 4.0 and later that allows web sites to use DHTML and JavaScript to upload an arbitrary file on the user's hard drive to the server without user permission. The bug does not appear to affect Netscape. All IE users should definitely turn off JavaScript until this is fixed.
Transvirtual's released the second beta of their version of the Kaffe Open Source virtual machine.
I'll be at Internet World in New York tomorrow, Friday October 9. Anyone who wants to get together or who has a Java or XML product to look at should drop me an email.
IBM's Alphaworks has released version 1.4 of the Skij Scheme interpreter . Skij can be thought of as a scripting language for Java. An applet version is now available. Also added are improved handling of error messages and some additional functions for getting information about Java methods.
Alphaworks has also released version 1.2.3 of their IRC Client for Java with various bug fixes.
My elharo@shock.njit.edu email address is working again, and I don't seem to have lost any mail. Nonetheless elharo@shock.njit.edu may stop working permanently in the next few weeks, so I'm trying to wean correspondents off of that address and onto either elharo@macfaq.com or elharo@metalab.unc.edu instead.
javax.swing package instead of the
com.sun.java.swing pacakge.
javax.swing will be used in the final release of Java 1.2.
Sun's also posted beta 3 of the JFC Accessibility Utilities and beta 1 (after a couple of early access releases) of the MacOS Look and Feel. Both require Swing 1.1beta3. The MacOS Look and Feel only runs on a Mac.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released version 2.0b3 of Jigsaw, their reference web server written in Java. As well as fixing numerous bugs, this release supports page compilation, serves files straight out of zip archives, indexes servlets, and adds a ProxyDispatcher rules editor.
The W3C has elevated Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 to official recommendation status.
Sun's released the $3500 Java Embedded Server, a.k.a Project Nanoserver. Near as I can tell this is software that runs on top of a RealTime OS like Chorus, Inferno, or Windows CE.