News

NetRexx 1.142 includes many usability improvements, including enhancements to the catch, iterate, leave, numeric, and trace instructions, more control over compiler output, and Java 1.2 support. For details, please see the changes list. [1 Sep 1998]

Pierantonio Marchesini's Extended Programmer Toolkit for NetRexx Applications (xclasses) is now available [7 Jul 1998]

Dion Gillard's Online NetRexx course is now available. [17 May 1998]

IBM's VM/ESA Version 2 Release 3 operating system includes NetRexx (announcement letter). [11 Apr 1998]

The 9th International Rexx Symposium took place on 11-13 May. Check the Rexx Language Association site for details!

Dion Gillard's Visual NetRexx Alpha 2 release is now available [11 Mar 1998]

The SHARE conference with nine popular NetRexx sessions ended in Anaheim, CA, on 27 February. To read all about them, see Chip Davis' report. [8 Mar 1998]

Kai Schmidt's SurfCompanion NetRexx offline web reader is now available [13 Feb 1997] (This site may be unavailable at busy times.)

Current release

NetRexx 1.142 is the NetRexx reference implementation for Java 1.1 and Java 1.2. This release will only run correctly on a Java 1.1 (or later) platform. [1 Sep 1998] (A NetRexx for Java 1.0.x is still available.)

NetRexx 1.142 supports minor (inner) classes (see the new Buttons sample), trace var, compressed class libraries ('jar files'), serialization of all Rexx objects, internationalization, adapter classes (see the new Scribble sample), comment pass-through, binary methods, hexadecimal and binary number notation, enforcement of explicit declarations, and many other improvements.

For details, please see the changes list, and the NetRexx Supplement. The Supplement is also available in PDF (Acrobat) format for viewing or printing; a PostScript version is also available, in the NetRexxD package.

Other recent new links

• (The full list of links.)
• The NetRexx Web Ring. (This site may be unavailable at busy times.)
• Peter Heuchert's nrxdoc - a documentation generator for NetRexx package.
• Wingsoft's NetRexx Interactive Development Environment (IDE) for any Java platform.
• Ed Tomlinson's Pipes for NetRexx and Java.
• A NetRexx "how to" book, Creating Java Applications Using NetRexx.
• Windows Magazine reviews NetRexx.
• Pierantonio Marchesini's NetRexx tutorial.
• Max Marsiglietti's MaxBase database for NetRexx and his article in Java Universe.