Brisbane, Australia, - October 22, 1999 - Plugged In Software today announced the release of the Platypus Toolset, a suite of Java development tools for rapid development of Web-based applications, under an Open SourceTM license.
The Platypus Toolset consists of Java code generation tools that speed the Web application development cycle. The toolset is meant to generate code compatible with Enhydra, the leading Open Source application server. Using the Platypus Toolset, Web developers can generate the majority of Java code for an application from hypertext markup language (HTML) pages, simple configuration files and a database schema.
The combination of the Platypus Toolset and the Enhydra application server allows developers to rapidly create scalable Web-based business applications.
The finance manager for a leading international commercial real estate development firm has called the first application developed with the Platypus Toolset "our most capable business analysis tool".
"Plugged In Software has been a key supporter of Enhydra for some time", said Enhydra architect and Lutris Technologies chief technology officer Paul Morgan. "They have played an important role in the rapidly growing Enhydra community which has rapidly established Enhydra as the de facto standard Open Source Java/XML application server. We look forward to incorporating contributed technologies such as Platypus into the Enhydra application development environment."
Enhydra is a 100% Java application server with industry-leading XML support. Enhydra was released to the Open Source community on January 15, 1999. Since that time, Enhydra has become the dominant Open Source application server; http://www.enhydra.org has been visited by over 90,000 users resulting in more than 13,000 downloads. Over 650 independent developers are actively contributing to Enhydra. Web projects leveraging Enhydra are underway worldwide by IT departments, Internet consultants, and start-up companies. Enhydra supports Unix, Linux, Windows and NT, as well as industry-dominant Web servers including Apache, Netscape Enterprise Server and Microsoft IIS. The only platform requirement is the presence of Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.1.6 or higher.
The Platypus Toolset runtime and source code is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) and may be downloaded for free use from http://www.PIsoftware.com. On-line demonstrations, documentation, and FAQs are provided for quick evaluation.
Plugged In Software creates Web-based business-to-business e-commerce applications for corporate clients in Australia and New Zealand. Plugged In is privately owned with a staff of eight people. Plugged In is a frequent contributor to the Enhydra application server development effort.
Lutris Technologies is the original developer and primary sponsor of Enhydra (http://www.enhydra.org), the industry's dominant Open Source Java/XML application server. Lutris provides a forum and maintains the infrastructure for the Enhydra development community, a rapidly growing group of developers from around the world who have adopted Enhydra as the basis for a broad range of Internet projects and applications.
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