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Dolphin Technologies Inc. Announces Dolphin Kit Object Library
Release 3.22 For NEXTSTEP
Contact:
Dolphin Technologies Inc.
10329 Viretta Lane
Beverly Glen, CA 90077-2723
800-843-0328
310-441-9021 (outside US)
Zacharias J. Beckman
April 20, 1994
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA--Dolphin Technologies Inc. announced the
availability of the Dolphin Kit class library, version 3.22, for
NEXTSTEP (both Intel and Motorola hardware). This upgrade to the
Dolphin Kit library adds a number of new features and objects to
the kit. The kit now contains over 28 objects and protocols which
are common to most applications built today.
Kit container classes such as the DSArray, DSNodeTree and DSSortedList
have been greatly enhanced. These classes now integrate directly
with NEXTSTEP objects such as the NXBrowser and DBTableView.
The DSThread and DSProcess classes have been enhanced to fully
support multithreading with this release. The kit now provides
complete facilities to create, manage and coordinate multiple
threads of execution at the object level.
String handling capabilities have been tremendously improved. The
kit's string handling classes now support record management features.
Regular expressions or constants are used to specify record
delimiters. This capability make stream and text processing very
easy when using the kit objects.
Included in this new release is crash handling technology which
will greatly aid in locating and fixing bugs. Crash handling is
dealt with by automatically writing a backtrace to the console and,
optionally, sending electronic mail with a copy of the backtrace
to a specified address. This is particularly useful for situations
in which an application crashes at a client site. It provides a
rapid reporting mechanism to obtain information which is normally
lost, and aids in reproducing problems which application users are
often unable to recreate.
The kit consists of a set of classes which run in the NEXTSTEP environment and
provide common functionality that many applications require. The classes
expand upon the existing NEXTSTEP API and deliver a proven set of software
components to accelerate both in-house and mission critical software
development.
Dolphin Kit provides NEXTSTEP developers with an essential suite of classes
from which to build applications. Included in the kit are classes for string
manipulation, complex string parsing and regular expression handling,
encapsulation of files, multitasking and management of C Threads at an object
oriented
level, handling Mach processes, containers such as sorted lists, arrays and
tree classes, objects which directly generate and deliver NEXTMAIL, extended
error and crash handling, and encapsulation of
NXStreams.
Dolphin Kit has been carefully architectured to provide a maximum
of reusability and integration with existing NEXTSTEP classes.
For example, kit data stores, such as the dynamic array class
DSArray, integrate completely with the NEXTSTEP API by using the
DBTableView class as a "front end" to display the container's
contents.
"In designing Dolphin Kit we made sure that the method names,
parameter names and paradigms conformed to existing NEXTSTEP
standards in the Application Kit, Database Kit, and Indexing Kit,"
said Carlos Salinas, Senior Engineer, Dolphin Technologies Inc.
"Dolphin heavily leverages the kit in-house, both for our shrink
wrap product development and our mission critical contracts," said
Zacharias J. Beckman, Principal, Dolphin Technologies Inc. "The
classes provide us with a proven and robust suite of objects which
speed our development cycle tremendously. This allows us to focus
on the important aspects of the project, rather than on recreating
frequently used software components."
Dolphin Kit is an integral part of Dolphin Technologies' development
efforts, having been used in Dolphin's shrink wrap products such
as Tar Viewer, an extension to the File Viewer that makes it possible
to browse a "tar" file, and Author! Author!, NEXTSTEP's premier
shrink wrap document management solution. Dolphin Technologies
has also used the kit within its mission critical development
contracts, where it greatly speeds development and rollout of the
project.
Dolphin Kit is available for a single-user license purchase price
of $449.00 US (site licenses and source code licenses are available).
For detailed information on the kit, send electronic mail to
<info@dolphin.com> or contact Dolphin Technologies Inc. at 10329
Viretta Lane, Beverly Glen, CA 90077-2723.
Dolphin Technologies Inc. and Dolphin Software are headquartered
in Beverly Glen, California. The company performs systems engineering,
mission critical development, and object oriented consulting services,
and develops shrink wrap NEXTSTEP applications. For additional
information contact Dolphin Technologies Inc. at 800-843-0328.
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Author! Author! is a trademark of Dolphin Technologies Inc. NEXTSTEP is a
trademark of NeXT Computer Inc.