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Castanet Tuner and Bongo 1.0beta2 available in outland
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jered@MIT.EDU)
Fri Oct 25 19:41:51 1996
From: jered@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 19:41:09 -0400
To: bug-outland@MIT.EDU, cwis-dev@MIT.EDU, java-hackers@MIT.EDU,
software-announce@MIT.EDU
Marimba's Castanet Tuner and Bongo 1.0 beta2 are now available in
the outland locker. To run:
add outland
tuner # For Castanet Tuner
bongo # For Bongo
player # For Bongo player
They are installed for (and work on) the Solaris and Linux platforms.
(They may also work on NetBSD 1.2 machines). I expect support for Irix
in the near future.
Essentially, Castanet allows for distributed dynamic applications and
data. It's very interesting, although it will tend to eat up your quota
if you download many channels. It's pretty nifty.
Bongo is a visual tool for designing and implementing GUIs for Java
applications.
"Marimba's Castanet system fulfills a promise made by applets and Web
browsers: distributing up-to-date self-installing software and data
across companies and continents.
Castanet channels (applications and their data) observe the security
of applets while improving upon applets in several ways. Although
channels are automatically distributed and installed like applets,
they appear to users more like applications. [...]"
(from http://www.marima.com/products/castanet.html.)
I chose not to install the Castanet Transmitter as I did not think
it would be useful in our computing environment. (It's an application
akin to a web server for Castanet channels, thus most users would not
find it useful.)
Enjoy!
--Jered
jered@mit.edu
