Lutris Enhydra 3.5 Java/XML Application Server For Wired And Wireless Devices Released To Manufacturing
Dec 20th, 01:26 UTC
Scheduled to ship this month, Lutris Enhydra 3.5 includes
technologies from Motorola, Nokia, Pixo, Sun, Borland and RadView
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., December 18, 2000 -- Lutris Technologies Inc., a
leading open source enterprise software and services company, today
announced that Lutris Enhydra 3.5, the first application server
capable of supporting major wireless protocols and delivering
applications to the broadest range of wireless and wired devices, has
been released to manufacturing and may now be ordered online. Lutris
Enhydra 3.5 includes smart phone emulators from leading mobile phone
manufacturers, Nokia, Motorola and Pixo, as well as development tools
from Borland, Sun and RadView to give developers a complete suite of
tools to quickly build and easily manage wired and wireless
applications.
Lutris Enhydra 3.5 is the industry's most complete application server
and development platform for delivering applications to wired and
wireless devices including mobile phones, PDAs, handheld computers,
desktops, and laptops. To ensure that independent software vendors
(ISVs), systems integrators (Sis), and corporate IT departments have
the necessary technologies to meet the demands of wireless
development, and to address the lack of global standards, Lutris
Enhydra 3.5 supports the leading presentation protocols, including
HTML, WML, cHTML, XHTML, VoiceXML and the new J2ME/MIDp protocols for
the emerging Java phones.
Lutris Enhydra 3.5 leverages Enhydra XMLC, a unique technology
developed by Lutris, to guarantee that developers are not required to
write a separate code base for each targeted device. Enhydra XMLC
effectively separates business logic from presentation design,
enabling a "one-to-many" approach that significantly decreases time to
market and dramatically improves application manageability.
"The wireless boom has clearly shown the limitations in most of
today's application server technologies which require developers to
needlessly repeat work to support the diverse suite of presentation
protocols being used around the world," said Yancy Lind, president and
CEO at Lutris. "The lack of international protocol standards--and the
need to target many devices from one application--has greatly slowed
the adoption of wireless Internet technology for business use. Lutris
Enhydra 3.5 eliminates the current barriers, setting the stage for
rapid development and deployment of many wireless applications."
To ensure that developers, ISVs and SIs have the necessary
technologies to effectively develop and deploy multi-device
applications, Lutris has entered into a number of agreements with
leading vendors to integrate key technologies with Lutris Enhydra
3.5. These include Borland's JBuilder 4.0 Foundation and Forte for
Java Community Edition for Windows, Linux, and Solaris: these
integrated development environments provide Enhydra developers with
leading Java rapid application development (RAD) tools. Lutris
Enhydra 3.5 also includes RadView's WebLoad for Windows, offering
users automated load-testing capabilities that ensure the scalability
of Enhydra applications.
Lutris also has forged significant agreements with Motorola, Nokia and
Pixo to provide critical development tools to developers building and
deploying mobile applications. Lutris Enhydra 3.5 includes Motorola's
J2ME/MIDp emulator for the company's next-generation Condor family of
iDEN phones, giving developers a convenient means to see immediately
the way the application being built will appear on Motorola's
J2ME-compliant handsets. Further, Lutris Enhydra 3.5 includes Nokia's
7110 emulator and WAP gateway as well as Pixo's cHTML emulators for
developing i-mode applications. Additionally, comprehensive
documentation and source code for sample applications give developers
a solid foundation from which to begin building and deploying wireless
applications.
AirSent, the sample field dispatch and delivery application included
with Lutris Enhydra 3.5, provides developers with a sound model for
building other time-sensitive, mobile applications. The AirSent
application can deliver data to a wide variety of devices supporting
HTML, WML, J2ME/MIDp, and cHTML including phones using WAP, I-Mode and
J2ME.
"The agreements that Lutris has forged will allow a broad audience to
fully leverage the power of Lutris Enhydra 3.5," continued Lind. "With
this product, and with the help of our partners, we have introduced an
application server capable of meeting the challenging needs of
businesses that are looking to extend their Internet applications to
wireless devices of all types."
Lutris Enhydra 3.5 Pricing and Availability
Lutris Enhydra 3.5 is available to order now. Priced at $695 for
Development and $995 per CPU for Deployment, the Lutris Enhydra 3.5
product and supporting services can be purchased from Lutris
Technologies Inc. at www.lutris.com, and by calling the Lutris offices
directly at 1-877-688-3724. The product will be shipped within 30 days
of purchase.
(Submitted by Renee Daniels of PAN Communications)
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