SilkPilot is a tool to test distributed application components. The maker of
SilkPilot is Segue, a provider of testing tools for the enterprise. Their
family of Silk products includes other testing tools for various areas of
Web, Java and distributed development.
To test the functionality, I ran version 1.2.1 Professional. It utilizes a
nonbundled ORB to provide the CORBA 2.2 distributed environment that's
required. VisiBroker 3.4 (or higher) and OrbixWeb 3.2 (or higher) are
supported by the product. ORBacus 3.1.3 (or higher) and BEA's WebLogic
Enterprise are also supported, but it seems to be incomplete in certain
places. SilkPilot is a Java 2 JFC application that's targeted toward Java 2,
although with certain modifications it's possible to use it to script
JDK1.x-based clients. It runs on Windows 95/98/NT, Solaris, HP and different
UNIX operating systems.
SilkP... (more)
The JProbe ServerSide Suite, version 2.5, consists of three related tools: a
Profiler/Memory Debugger, a Threadalyzer and a Coverage product. All can use
the LaunchPad to start profiling sessions against applications, applets and
servlets, or use their built-in launch facilities
Each product takes a different approach to making your Java code more solid.
The Coverage tool helps test all source code paths, the Profiler/Memory
Debugger is used during development and later during production to tune the
code, and the Threadalyzer helps to identify (potential)
locking/synchronization... (more)
JFCSuite is a collection of visual beans based on JFC and complementing it.
It fills in missing pieces in the JDK/JFC GUI libraries, namely, masked
(number-only, all upper case, etc.) entry fields, date/calendar controls,
various extensions (sorting) on JTable and more. All components support the
Java Look and Feel (JLF) and are 100% Pure Java certified. Although the
licensing is per developer, there are no runtime license fees when the
library is used in commercial products. The product is also available with
enterprise (priority) support bundled, which may be a good choice if t... (more)
The product was released in September 1998, but based on the information on
the Web site, it's still undergoing development iterations.
Spirit is a presentation builder environment based on JavaBeans. It provides
an extensive set of Bean-based objects (images), presentation tool
transitions and effects, and also has the ability to "script" its objects
using Java standard Bean interaction conventions. The product itself is
partially built using Spirit, and its UI shows proof of this by providing
more of a graphics workshop interface as opposed to the GUI builder
interface.
Its in... (more)
Stylus is an XML/XSL WYSIWYG editor developed by eXcelon Corp. (formerly
Object Design, Inc.). I became interested in Stylus while reading about it in
detail. There's a great selection of free and for-a-fee command- line tools
in the XML/XSL arena, but not many related GUI tools that facilitate the
creation of XML and XSL documents as a bundle.
I ran the evaluation of version 2.0.05 on Win2K SP1, the product that's
installed using InstallShield. It's integrated with MS Office and triggered
the install of some additional Office features (mostly Internet
Explorer-related features)... (more)
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