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Map Data and App Layers
Ilog extends JViews, JNetDirect releases JSQLMapper, and NitroX adds AppXRay capability.

JavaOne, June 30, 2004

Ilog has announced its Ilog JViews 6.0 product family. The new tools, packaged as standalone products for the first time, enable development of rich clients. The Ilog JViews family includes JViews Diagrammer, JViews Charts, JViews Gantt, JViews Maps, and JTGO. They include support for the Business Process Management Notation (BPMN), a new standard that lets analysts and developers model their business processes.

JViews Diagrammer helps developers create any Java diagram display. It offers a new Designer for Diagrammer point-and-click editor for automatically importing, defining, and customizing diagrams. JViews Gantt allows developers to view and edit schedules and plans in applications, applets, and Web thin clients. JViews Charts lets developers create and customize chart display types. It now includes a point-and-click editor, Designer for Charts, to configure the display, and supports JavaServer Faces. Developers can build asset management maps with JViews Maps, and communication interfaces with JTGO. The JTGO release provides a new alarm management system that complies with the OSS/J standard.

JNetDirect has released JSQLMapper 1.0, a bidirectional data mapping tool that eliminates the need to construct custom code to bring relational data into XML format. The product takes relational data entries and generates XML documents to populate a relational database.

M7 has launched NitroX for Struts, for building JavaServer Pages (JSP) and Struts-based applications on the Eclipse platform. NitroX includes the new AppXRay technology that maps and tracks all application layers and the relationships between them. Other features include a realtime source and visual JSP Editor, Struts Editor, Consistency Checker, and JSP and Struts Debugger. NitroX for Struts, Eclipse Edition is priced at $499.

Nokia has updated several tools and SDKs to support the Eclipse environment. Eclipse support is included in new versions of the Nokia Developer's Suite for J2ME, version 2.2, and the Nokia Mobile Server Services SDK. Additionally, users can now integrate any MIDP Nokia platform SDK into the Eclipse environment. The new version of the Developer's Suite is available free of charge to members of Forum Nokia PRO, the advanced developer program offered by Forum Nokia. All the tools will later be made available to the general Forum Nokia community at www.forum.nokia.com.

ICEsoft Technologies' ICEbrowser has been integrated into Jive Software's Live Assistant and Triversity's Transactionware Enterprise. Live Assistant facilitates realtime conversations with customers from a company's Web site. Transactionware Enterprise is a J2EE point-of-sale solution.

ObjectFX has introduced its SpatialFX 4.0 platform. This new version offers SpatialFX Micro Edition, which provides standalone mapping capabilities for small devices; Spatial Rules, which enable automated detection and notification of spatial events; Gazetteer, an add-on module for parsing and displaying visual maps of geospatial locations derived from nonstructured data such as text documents and Web pages; Terrain Service capability for visually displaying elevation profiles for raster-based data; improved Oracle Spatial integration; and new support for the Java Image I/O architecture.