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- From: info@softt.com.au
- Newsgroups: comp.client-server,comp.databases.object,comp.object,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java
- Subject: Announce: Java and C++ Client/Server Libraries
- Followup-To: comp.client-server
- Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 20:46:46 GMT
- Organization: Soft Technologies
- Message-ID: <4lbm49$n8o@gidora.kralizec.net.au>
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- Summary: A Client/Server library in Java and C++, cross-platform, shareware
- Keywords: client server
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- Soft Technologies (Sydney, Australia) is pleased to announce the
- availability of the pre-release version of its Java/C++ class
- libraries which enable the development of cross-platform,
- client-server applications operating across the Internet.
-
- STOCS (pronounced 'stocks'), as we have named our middleware
- libraries, is a by-product of our work on Internet/Intranet business
- applications which we will announce shortly. In releasing STOCS we
- hope to reduce the amount of re-invention which is rife in the
- software industry (we may be guilty!) and assist other developers
- leverage their application development utilising STOCS.
-
- STOCS is documented on our web site,
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- http://www.softt.com.au/SOFTT_DEV/dev_index.htm
-
- with examples of its use. Pre-release material is available for
- download via the web or by ftp
-
- ftp://www.softt.com.au/pub/softt/stocs
-
- and will be updated regularly. The official release of STOCS is
- planned for late May, 1996.
-
- Briefly, STOCS supports the asynchronous communication of objects
- between a client and a server, providing the basis of a server which
- can accommodate multiple clients operating across TCP/IP.
-
- STOCS currently provides:
-
- * Java and C++ libraries to quickly generate client/server
- applications
-
- * the nucleus of a server which can be extended to provide
- application specific capabilities server
-
- * support for multi-threaded execution
-
- * support for OO principles (but not distributed objects)
-
- * cross-platform support (currently Windows NT, with Windows
- 3.1/95, MacOS and Unix planned)
-
- STOCS does not implement distributed objects and is not CORBA
- compliant. We call STOCS "objectified client-server" and it works
- simply and effectively, without the learning curve and resource/cost
- overheads of fully distributed objects.
-
- We welcome your feedback and comment on STOCS. Basically, where STOCS
- goes from here is in large measure up to you and the software
- community on the Internet.
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-