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    RELEASE NOTES: INLINE STANDARD v1.2.1 
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Updated January 31, 2000

Welcome to InLine Standard, a software plug-in
that extends the functionality of IDEs and 
bridges the gaps between visual modeling tools,
IDEs, and application servers

We hope you'll like what we've created in InLine
Standard.  Please let us know what you think.

- The InLine Standard Release Team


PRODUCT REQUIREMENTS

InLine Standard 1.2.1 is supported on the
  
 -  Windows NT 4.0, SP4 or higher
 -  Windows 98

platforms, for use with the following integrated
development environments (IDEs):

Symantec Visual Cafe 
- Professional Edition 3.0c
- Database Edition 3.0c
- Enterprise Edition 3.1
- Expert 4.0

JBuilder3
- Enterprise Edition
- Professional Edition

Forte for Java 
- Community Edition 1.0 Beta, Build 434, 
with JDK 1.2

NOTE: InLine Software provides Beta level support
only, to developers using the Forte for Java IDE.


InLine Standard also includes personality 
modules (PMs) which support the development and 
deployment of EJBs specific to the following 
application servers:

- BEA WebLogic Application Server 4.0.3
- BEA WebLogic Application Server 4.5.1
- IBM WebSphere v3
- Oracle 8i

The UML/EJB Bridge for Rational Rose supports the 
generation of EJBs and the creation of EJB model 
elements with the following products:

- Rational Rose 2000
- Rational Rose 98i

InLine Standard's reverse engineering wizard
supports access to JDBC 1.0-compliant databases.


PRODUCT SUPPORT

Support for InLine Standard 1.2 is provided
through newsgroup and email exchange.

To access the newsgroup, connect to the server,
news.inline-software.com, and locate the
following:

inline.software.standard.users

The users group is open to all customers,
developers, and testers.  Although InLine
Software cannot commit a response time to
discussions, the site will be visited regularly
by engineering staff and support personnel.

Technical questions may also be sent directly to
support@inline-software.com.  Issues will be
acknowledged within 2 business days.

Reports of suspected bugs are welcome.  Please
send detailed descriptions, including steps to
reproduce, to bugs@inline-software.com.


PRODUCT INSTALLATION

InLine Standard runs within the integrated
development environment.  Refer to the
accompanying Installation Guide, InstallGuide.pdf,
for additional details.


PRODUCT DOCUMENTATION

Developers new to the product are encouraged to 
work through the InLine Standard Guided Tour,
GuidedTour.pdf. The tour walks through entity CMP
definition in Rational Rose, source enhancement
in Visual Cafe, and deployment to the WebLogic
server. 

Core concepts and additional details regarding
the use of InLine Standard are covered in the
User's Guide, UserGuide.pdf.

Assistance with fields and values that appear
in the product, as part of the application
server personality modules, is offered in the
Application Servers Guide, AppServers.pdf.


KNOWN ISSUES - IDE

Within Visual Cafe, use of the Swing File chooser
produces a null pointer exception and a loss of
focus.  Alt-Tab back to the file chooser when
this occurs.

The Replace All option, which appears when source
files to be generated are identified on the
classpath, produces a second prompt in the Forte
for Java IDE.  Select "Yes" when prompted to 
reload externally modified source or data may be
lost.

Intermittently, the EJB Component Editor displays
components from a previous project when a new
project is created in Visual Cafe Expert 4. Cycle
the IDE to work around this issue.


KNOWN ISSUES - APP SERVER INTEGRATION

The WebLogic container generator, ejbc, will not
run if the InLineHome directory contains
spaces.  Specify a directory with no spaces during
installation, to avoid this problem.

Due to conflicting JVM requirements, the WebLogic
4.0.3 personality module is not supported in the
Forte for Java environment.

The IBM WebSphere 3.0 application server requires
JDK 1.1. Because of this restriction, InLine
Standard integration with the WebSphere server is
only available within Visual Cafe.


KNOWN ISSUES - UML/EJB BRIDGE FOR ROSE

The UML/EJB Bridge for Rational Rose utilizes
maximum resources in the Visual Cafe IDE. When
exporting EJBs to a Rose model, or generating 
EJBs from a model, increase Maximum Stack and 
Heap sizes under Tools-Environment Options-
Internal VM.  

When generating EJBs from Rational Rose, the
Component Generation wizard may display in the
background.  Alt-Tab to the appropriate screen to
complete EJB generation.

From JBuilder, the Tools-Export Components 
function may launch a second instance of Rational
Rose.  

At the end of the 30-day evaluation period,
the InLineEJB addin remains enabled in Rational
Rose, though EJB generation functionality is no
longer available.  Unconfigure and uninstall
InLine Standard to remove the addin from Rose.



Copyright (c) 1998-2000 Inline Software 
Corporation.  All Rights Reserved.

InLine, InLine Software Corporation, the InLine
logo, Assembly Line, App Station, Task Station,
View Station, Web Station, BeanStation, and
Business Database Connectivity are trademarks of
InLine Software Corporation.

Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Java, and
all Java-based trademarks and logos are
trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun
Microsystems, Inc.

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trademarks of their respective owners.

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