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Visual Edge's object middleware integrates OLE and Java components without custom coding
Visual Edge Software Ltd. is preparing this month to ship a trio of software packages, now in beta testing, that make OLE and Java objects and applets work in a distributed environment without requiring developers to write code. A fourth product, also in beta testing, will make it possible to manage OLE applications with networkmanagement software.
The Network and Manage Ease products are designed to make it easier to build distributed applications without having to learn and program specific communications infrastructures and object models, which is difficult and time-consuming, says Mike Foody, president of Visual Edge in St. Laurent, Quebec.
Traditionally, very high skill levels are required to build and maintain distributed applications that span multitiered client-server and Internet environments. Application developers usually need to know multiple programming languages, communications middleware, database architectures, and object models. Those skills are in short supply, and custom code for those many environments is timeconsuming and inefficient.
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"Complexity has been a barrier to widespread use of these technologies in the past," says John Rymer, a VP at Giga Information Group, an IT research firm in Cambridge, Mass. Distributed computing is very difficult, with a small talent pool compared with the Visual Basic programming pool, he adds. "So this product is meant to open up the benefits of distributed objects to...