Netscape DevEdge News
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A bi-weekly newsletter serving the Netscape developer community
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Vol. 2, No. 4 -- February 18, 1997
In this message:
PRODUCT AND TECHNOLOGY NEWS
* Developer Preview 2 of Communicator Available for DevEdge Gold
* New for Developers in Enterprise 3.0: Improved Server-side JavaScript
* Netscape and Visgenics Deliver CORBA-Compliant Platform
* Certificate Server Ships
* Tech Vision This Week: LDAP
EVENT NEWS
* Java World Tour Starts Friday
NEW RESOURCES
* DevEdge CD Coming Next Month
OPPORTUNITIES
* Have a Hot Enterprise Technology Application?
SUBSCRIPTION INFO/FEEDBACK
- Product and Technology News -
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DEVELOPER PREVIEW 2 OF COMMUNICATOR FOR DEVEDGE GOLD MEMBERS
Members of DevEdge Gold can download Netscape Communicator Preview
Release 2 from DevEdge Online. A DevEdge Community release is
scheduled soon with a public release thereafter. Numerous platforms
are supported in this version including Windows 3.1, Windows 95/NT,
Macintosh and Unix. Enhancements include suport for style sheets,
kiosk mode, and Java on all platforms.Download Communicator Preview
Release 2 at:
http://developer.netscape.com/software/index.html
* NEW FOR DEVELOPERS IN ENTERPRISE 3.0: Improved Server-side JavaScript
Several enhancements to Netscape Enterprise Server with respect to
JavaScript are of special interest to developers:
- A big enhancement is Enterprise Server's ability to support object
persistence. Object properties now persist across web page requests,
thus programming tasks become easier with less application state to track.
- Multi-threading of the JavaScript engine and the Informix, Oracle,
and Sybase database client libraries means your applications can now
run faster.
- A new database feature allows you to manage multiple database
connections so now you can design applications that access data stored
in many data sources.
- Database stored procedures can now be invoked directly from
JavaScript. For example, a compiled database query registered with an
Informix database can be executed from your JavaScript application and
the result set can be manipulated by your application.
Technical documentation on Enterprise Server 3.0 can be found at:
http://developer.netscape.com/library/documentation/enterprise/index.html
* NETSCAPE AND VISIGENIC DELIVER CORBA-COMPLIANT PLATFORM
Netscape has expanded its use of Visigenic's ORB technology with a
new agreement that integrates Visigenic's VisiBroker for Java and
VisiBroker for C++ in Netscape Enterprise Server 3.0. Developers
can create distributed applications with the single-user development
license for the Visigenic developer tools that are bundled with
Enterprise Server 3.0. Enterprise Server 3.0 is now in public
beta and will include the Visigenics tools in an upcoming release.
Objects created with VisiBroker conform to the Common Object
Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) 2.0 and Internet Inter-ORB
Protocol (IIOP) standards that are accessible by other CORBA
2.0/IIOP-compliant objects. By integrating the Visigenics ORB
technologies in Netscape Enterprise Server, Netscape wants to make
it easier to build multi-tiered distributed applications and
leverage the thousands of CORBA-compliant applications already
in place today.
The Netscape ONE Vision and Roadmap includes more on how
CORBA and Netscape ONE work together:
http://home.netscape.com/comprod/one/white_paper.html
For more on the Visigenics announcements please visit:
http://home.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease341.html
* CERTIFICATE SERVER NOW SHIPPING
Enable applications for client and server authentication via SSL,
signed and encrypted e-mail and more with Certificate Server 1.0.
Now available are versions for Windows NT 3.51 & 4.0, Solaris 2.4
and 2.5, and Irix 5.3 & 6.2.
Information about Certificate Server, FAQs, download and purchase
information can be found at:
http://home.netscape.com/comprod/server_central/product/certificate/index.html
* TECH VISION THIS WEEK: THE LDAP SOLUTION
For the Internet to reach its full communication potential, it
must become easier to find people and information online. Currently,
many organizations use multiple directory technologies that are
incompatible with one another, making the management and maintenance
of user information an expensive and time-consuming problem. Marc
Andreessen talks about the need for universally accessible directories
and discusses why LDAP, (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) provides
a solution.
http://home.netscape.com/comprod/columns/techvision/ldap.html
- Event News -
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* JAVA EDUCATION WORLD TOUR '97 STARTS FRIDAY
Limited tickets are still available for the first leg of the
Java Education World Tour. The first seminar will be a live event
in San Francisco with satellite broadcasts to six other west coast
cities: Los Angeles, Seattle, San Diego, Portland and Vancouver, Canada.
Co-sponsored by IBM, Netscape and JavaSoft the Java Education World
Tour is coming to more than 40 cities worldwide in 1997. Each seminar
will focus on the benefits of Java and how it can help software
developers be more successful.
DevEdge Community and Gold members can receive a substantial discount
by visiting:
http://developer.netscape.com/members/doc/community/doc/jwt.html
Register for all venues online at:
http://javaworldtour.sbexpos.com/netscape-link
Register by phone by calling 888-554-5282 or
415/372-7073.
Other Java Education World Tour scheduled dates in Q1 1997
March 5, 1997 Chicago, IL and other central cities
March 12, 1997 New York, NY and other east coast cities
March dates TBD Europe and Asia-Pacific tour stops
Check the Java Education World Tour site (URL above) for seminar details
and upcoming locations
- New to View Source -
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* USER-CENTERED DESIGN
Good design--that is, design centered around your user's experience
--is not only "the right thing" to do, it can also make your development
efforts more successful by attracting more users to your web
site or application. This is the first of some upcoming stories on
this topic.
* SERVER-SIDE JAVASCRIPT
A technical article on building database views with server-side
JavaScript includes sample code.
* TOOLS (PART III)
The last part of Senior Product Marketing Manager Rick Fleischman's
overview of tools for Netscape ONE development -- this time Rick
focusses on Web site deployment and management tools.
Find all of these articles at:
http://developer.netscape.com/news/viewsource/index.html
- New Resources -
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* DEVEDGE CD TO SHIP NEXT MONTH
The next edition of the DevEdge CD will ship in late March. This
CD is packed with software for development and testing and other
resources taken from the DevEdge Online web site. DevEdge
Community and Gold members will automatically receive the CD upon
release. The CD is mailed out to new Community and Gold members
within a month after they register for the program.
For more information on additional DevEdge member benefits see:
http://developer.netscape.com/program/index.html
- New Opportunities -
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* HAVE A HOT ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGY DEMO?
Show us your applications that are based on Netscape ONE technology
for the Netscape Intranet Solutions page. If we use your demonstration,
we will link directly to your web site hosting the demo.
Send the URL and info on technology used to:
at-work-feedback@netscape.com[1]">mailto:at-work-feedback@netscape.com
For a look at demonstrations already on the site, visit:
http://home.netscape.com/comprod/at_work/linklist.html - How to
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