Excelsior JET 6.0 Maintenance Pack 1 is available
Excelsior JET 6.0 Maintenance Pack 1 is available for download. It is a highly recommended update that fixes multiple customer issues.
Birds are supposed to eat bugs, aren’t they?
It turns out that sometimes a bird can become a “bug” in an IT system.
The picture below was taken by the camera installed at one of the Russian Railways’ freight car wheel measurement systems, the software for which we help develop. Depot operators need the picture of the train passing through the system to check its serial number, but this little bird hinders them from their work!
The bird is brave enough to build its nest right inside the system unit, very close to the railways. It may be a good tradeoff for her, because it is warm in the box thanks to the camera heating equipment. Or maybe she likes to watch trains passing by, who knows?
Run Time Editor 3 Enters The Excelsior JET Gallery
A second addition to the Excelsior JET Application Gallery in two days. RCS Programming‘s Run Time Editor is an IDE for control systems designers.
John Rule, the author, proudly writes:
The new Run Time Editor 3 is the next generation Rapid Application Design and prototyping environment that incorporates many of the best features from it predecessor, the Run Time Editor 2. The highly acclaimed RTE2 is still used for control systems integration, and as a general user interface design environment, but the RTE3 goes much further. Network communications are very intuitive, and the scripting is based on the widely used Java and JavaScript languages.
The scripting gives you access to native operating system functionality like file input/output (including dialogs), command line (shell) interface, network communications, audio and video capabilities, calling .dlls, etc. The example project included called the ?DVD Librarian? provides an advanced example of creating your own user interface to manage your CD/DVD library, including integrated Home Theater control. There is also a full screen mode for hiding all of the operating system elements, providing a greater user experience.
Almost anything you can do in Java (or any other IDE for that matter) you can do with the RTE3!
A bold claim, is not it? Anyway, I downloaded the demo and on first sight it seems to be put together well. So maybe you should try it too.
If you want us to add your Excelsior JET-compiled product to the Gallery, please contact us.
Fixes/Workarounds for Java SE API Bugs: New Service for Excelsior JET Users
We have started offering a new consulting service to Excelsior JET customers: Java SE API bugfixing.
Exceptional expertise in the Java core and the commercial Java Technology license enable us to fix bugs found in the Sun’s JDK implementation and merge the fixes into a mainstream version of Excelsior JET.
What is more important is that we would start working on the fix or workaround for your particular problem immediately upon your request. A fix in the JDK may appear much later, if at all, especially if you have to stick to a legacy version of the Java technology for any reason.
Our support records also show that some of you may not move to the latest Java version due to bugs introduced in Java SE platform classes recently. If this is your case, we are ready to resolve such issues on a consultancy basis and ship an updated version of Excelsior JET to you.
Of course, Sun Microsystems fixes lots of bugs in each minor and major update of Java SE but many issues stay unresolved. For instance, a plenty of Swing/AWT bugs published at
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/
have been kept untouched for years.
To sum it up, if you need something fixed in the core Java API, versions from J2SE 1.4.2 onwards, just let us know and Excelsior engineers will be back to you with a proposal.
Don’t forget to check out the entire range of services available to Excelsior JET customers.
TuxGuitar Goes Native, Appears In Excelsior JET Gallery
TuxGuitar, an open source project aimed at creating a multitrack tablature editor and player in Java, has released version 1.0-rc1. TuxGuitar users may now choose between two native, JRE-independent downloads, one optimized and packaged using Excelsior JET and the other with GCJ, and the conventional bytecode package that requires a JRE to run.
TuxGuitar now appears in the Excelsior JET Application Gallery.
If you want us to add your product to the Gallery, please contact us.
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