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VENDOR: Nutmeg Smalltalk-like classlib for Java
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (THOUGHT Inc.)
Mon Mar 11 12:48:49 1996
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 9 Mar 1996 20:03:15 GMT
From: nutmeg@thoughtinc.com (THOUGHT Inc.)
Reply-To: nutmeg@thoughtinc.com
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Submitted by: THOUGHT Inc.
Source: THOUGHT Inc.
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THOUGHT Inc. Announces Nutmeg(TM), One of the first commercial class libraries
available for the Java Language. See products at http://www.thoughtinc.com
Even though it is one of the most promising new technologies to arrive, Java
programming can still requires a great deal of time for low level programming
tasks. One of the areas where this is true is in the area of list management,
which is still fairly primitive in the Java Class libraries. Smalltalk has
long been known as a powerful programming language for applications like list
management. THOUGHT Inc. has sought to address the problem of making Java
useful for low level programming tasks by creating a set of Java Classes
entitled Nutmeg, which have been modeled after the Smalltalk Collection Class
library. With these classes, Nutmeg for Java is one more tool to assist
programmers in developing advanced applications using Java.
Nutmeg features include classes to manage Arrays of information, Indexed
Collections, Ordered and Sorted Collections, Sets and even Dictionaries. Users
can also define a Smalltalk style or Java style error handling (The java style
uses exception handling features built into the language) as well as
programmer defined sorting criteria and in many areas programmer defined Error
handling and Object Selection blocks. These more robust classes should greatly
increase the useability of Java for doing large scale and serious development
using Java.
A limited evaluation copy of the FCS 1.0 (production) version of Nutmeg is
available for download under products from "http://www.thoughtinc.com". If you
are an student programmer we have a $49 version available. This 49$ version is
a binary license only and will not guarantee immediate response to support
questions, although general internet based support will still be available to
report bugs. Corporate pricing is expected to be $495 per seat for the binary
release, $995 per seat for a source code license. Both zip and tar files (for
windows and UNIX) are available for general download from the URL. These
classes have been designed to work with either the Windows, OS2, Mac or Unix
based Java Developers Kits (aka. Java FCS1.0). Applications written with
Nutmeg should run with any Beta runtime environment, such as Netscape 2.0
Browsers which have Java enabled, or the Java Developer's Kit runtime.
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