Java : Applications : Development Tools

Create interactive, plug-in free and very compact Java presentations and product simulations for the web. Development is done by visually connecting preprogrammed objects or by coding in Java. Several add-ons are available, for example a realtime 3D engine, where textures can be replaced with interactive 2D presentations. Other add-ons are an MPEG video player, slide show viewer and an MP3 player.

The WebSphere Studio Application Developer for Linux and Windows, a tool built on the WebSphere Studio Workbench, is a pluggable tool-development and integration platform that incorporates the technology of the recently announced Eclipse open-source organization. Application Developer offers a wide array of capabilities and technologies for J2EE development and comes with a full range of specialized tools and features, including support for Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 1.1, Java profiling and optimization, XML editors, Web services wizards, and many more.

Advanced Installer For Java 1.6 is a Windows Installer authoring tool with built-in support for Java applications, integrating them fully into the Windows OS and making them look and feel just like a native application. Advanced Installer for Java runs on Windows 2000/XP, and the install packages it creates run on all Microsoft Windows 9x/ME/NT/2k/XP operating systems. Using the standard Windows Installer technology, Advanced Installer For Java is able to provide the best Windows integration for your Java applications.

htmlPX, the HTML Programmer's Extension, is a HTML preprocessor that makes it easy to maintain websites. It allows you to maintain consistency across pages and make sitewide changes easily. Runs on any Java 1.1 platform.

WebSphere Technology for Developers is the first application server featuring Java™ 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.3 compatibility. You can run J2EE 1.3 applications -- including applications from other vendors or applications you have built yourself -- that take advantage of JSP 1.2, Servlet 2.3 and EJB 2.0 specifications. You can also build new applications that implement the latest Web services APIs including SOAP and UDDI4J.

compactHTML is a configurable command-line tool for reducing the size of HTML, PHP etc text files. By removing extra white space, tabs etc you can get significant reductions in size. If pages are downloaded thousands of times then this reduction become even more important - saving on bandwidth while improving speed. Over 20% size reductions have been seen, average is between 10-18%.

Base64 Encoder and Decoder written in JAVA. Runs using command line and can encode/decode files or strings and output either in the command line or into specified file. The algorithm is quite standard and is virtually identical to what email protocols use.

HttpRevealer is a utility program for web developers, Webmasters, Flash developers, and Network Administrators. It reveals the communications between a web browser and a webserver at the HTTPlevel. You get to see all the HTTP request/response headers. It helps you to debug your web applications, Flash applications and web server.

SpeedJG is an XML-based GUI builder tool to create state-of-the-art Java Swing applications. The core part of this tool is a parser that reads the meta-data described in XML to create Java GUI components on the fly. An IDE, itself generated by and using this parser, enables the Java developer to design GUIs, generate their meta-data, check their layout, and create the corresponding source code.

Eclipse plugin eva/3 Application Builder assumes responsibility for the design of Swing components over an integrated GUI Builder, the execution of procedures and the handling of diverse relational SQL databases over JDBC interfaces, e.g. Sybase® SQL Anywhere, Microsoft® SQLServer 2000, Microsoft® Access, MySQL®, IBM® DB2, Oracle®, Parkway Microfocus, HSQLDB, PostgreSQL, JDataStore. High performance database export and import functions are also available.