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Marimba's Castanet Tuner 1.1, Transmitter 1.1, Bongo 1.1RC in outland
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jered J Floyd)
Sun Sep 7 18:30:42 1997
To: bug-outland@MIT.EDU, cwis-dev@MIT.EDU, java-hackers@MIT.EDU,
software-announce@MIT.EDU
From: Jered J Floyd <jered@MIT.EDU>
Date: 07 Sep 1997 18:30:08 -0400
Marimba's Castanet Tuner, Bongo, and Transmitter version 1.1 are now
available in the outland locker. To run:
add outland
tuner # For Castanet Tuner
bongo # For Bongo
bongo-player # For Bongo Player
castanet-admin # For Castanet admin
castanet-publish # For channel publisher
castanet-transmitter # For Castanet transmitter
They are installed for Solaris, Linux, and NetBSD platforms.
(They may also work on NetBSD 1.2 machines.) Bongo is a version 1.1
release candidate, there may be a future update to it. This version of the
transmitter is for testing channel functionality only. The Transmitter is
restricted to 5 unique users per hour, and Bongo will paint a demo string on
the presentations it saves.
The castanet tuner should store it's cache files in the directory
/var/tmp/marimba-cache/$USER.
This release will work with JDK1.1, currently in the Java locker.
What is Castanet? "Castanet automatically distributes and maintains
software applications and content within a company or across the Internet.
[http://www.marimba.com/products/]" It's a Java application which
represents the leading edge of the so-called 'push technologies.' It's
pretty nifty. Play with it, you'll see.
Bongo is a visual interface builder for Java. Bongo includes a wide
variety of interface "widgets"-pre-defined visual controls ready for
immediate use in your application-to enable rapid development of rich
user interfaces. Bongo output can be directly published as Marimba
Castanet channels.
For more information, please see http://www.marimba.com/
Enjoy!
--Jered
jered@mit.edu
