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BETA: Simplicity for Java - OS/2 Beta Testers Wanted
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carl H. Sayres)
Sun Feb 22 06:28:47 1998
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 22 Feb 1998 03:11:00 -0500
From: carl@datarepresentations.com (Carl H. Sayres)
Reply-To: carl@datarepresentations.com
Reply-to: carl@datarepresentations.com
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Thursday, February 19, 1998
Data Representations
http://www.datarepresentations.com/
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REQUEST FOR BETA-TESTERS
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Data Representations is pleased to announce the beta-release of its flagship
product, Simplicity for Java(TM). Simplicity for Java is a rapid
application design tool for Java 1.1. Simplicity lets developers build Java
applications and applets interactively. Developers can click-n-drop Java
Layouts, AWT Components, Simplicity's own extended components, and Third
Party Java Beans into their application. Simplicity features on-the-fly
execution of Java source code, enabling applications to execute class
declaration code, constructor code, method code, and event code as they are
designed. This dynamic execution reduces the traditional, three step,
Code-Compile-Test, software development process to a single step: Design.
Every change that is made to an application's source code is immediately
integrated into a working model of the program.
Simplicity also features the Code Sourcerer(TM), which interviews the
developer in order to determine what should happen in response to events and
writes the appropriate Java source code. This allows Simplicity for Java to
be used by both experienced and inexperienced Java developers.
Simplicity for Java comes with an Integrated Design Environment (IDE) which
organizes all of the components of a project. A project can include
multiple applications/applets, images, sounds, Java source/class files, HTML
files, Java Beans, and any other data files related to a project. The
Simplicity IDE also relieves the user from worrying about pathnames on both
a local file system, and on a web server.
Simplicity for Java is written completely in Java 1.1, and we will be
seeking 100% Pure Java certification at the end of the beta-testing period.
Simplicity has had preliminary testing on the following platforms:
OS/2 Warp 4.0 (IBM JDK 1.1.4)
Windows 95/NT (JavaSoft JDK 1.1.5)
Windows 95/NT (Microsoft SDK 2.01)
HP-UX (HP JDK 1.1.4)
Linux (i386 JDK 1.1.3)
It is our goal to increase this list substantially. We are seeking a pool
of beta-testers covering a diverse set of hardware and Java Virtual
Machines. We are also looking for testers with many different levels of
Java programming experience. People who are interested in applying to be a
beta tester should visit http://www.datarepresentations.com/. As
compensation, those people selected for the beta test will receive a free
copy of Simplicity for Java when it is released.
=A9 1998, Data Representations. All rights reserved. Data Representations,
Simplicity for Java, and Code Sourcerer are trademarks of Data
Representations. Java is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. All
trademarks are owned by their respective companies.
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