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Code Forge IDE is Integrated Development Environment for Unix and Linux, that provides full project management and a complete edit, compile and debug cycle support for over 30 programming languages. Its advanced project management features allow it to scale from simple to extremely large and multi-language as well as multi-user projects. Total integration between various IDE tools provide the programmer with unprecedented control over the development process.
The Project Manager gives a visual representation of all of its components through the use of a dependency tree. Users can easily set up multiple targets of different types, mix programming languages and even revision control types within the same project.
The GUI project manager provides full abstraction of the "Makefile" concept. Project Makefiles are generated and maintained automatically by the CodeForge project engine. Intuitive Drag and Drop operations on the Dependency Tree and project desktop, are automatically converted to make script statements. A GNU Makefile representation of the Project is kept up to date with every change applied to the project. The resulting Makefile can be executed from the command line.
Tools options
The IDE hides the details of working with different compiled programming languages. The simple concept of creating a target from source files and even other targets works exactly the same for all compiled languages. Creating an "Executable" target and adding source files will automatically generate the the rules necessary to build that target. Creating a "Library" target is just as simple. Linking your "Library" target to an "Executable" target is as simple as dragging the icon of the "library" target onto the "Executable" targets icon.
Development tool interfaces are also abstracted. The IDE has preconfigured support for all major free and commercial compilers on the market today. Appropriate compilation and linker options are selected automatically and are graphically configurable. Dozens of other tools such as (ar, lexx, yacc, etc) are also supported by the development environment.
Code Forge IDE is fully Drag and Drop enabled between tools. Operations such as file modification, file comparison and revision control are all performed simply by dragging a file form the project desktop to the desired drop site.
The IDE provides the facilities to control the build, debug and execute actions at the target level. An environment variable editor allows the user to define a custom environment for each Project.
Project Window
A built-in advanced programmers editor is the first and only editor to maintain the correct indentation of the entire source file with each keystroke. (The indentation policy can be "downgraded" to the level of other editors via options) The editor features context-sensitive auto-completion and prototype-hinting.
The IDE includes a "best-in-class" debugger interface, that interfaces seemlessly with the editor so you can edit, rebuild and continue debugging never leaving the debugger itself.
Code Forge IDE makes Team Development a snap through the use of local "sandboxes", project merge and transparent support of all major types of Revision Control. Complete abstraction of the Revision Control interface makes revision control specifics transparent to the user. Interaction will all revision control types looks the same to the user. Drag and Drop operations within Dependency Tree generate and execute the correct revision control commands.
The Code Forge Integrated Development Environment provides a uniform interface to all its features for all programming languages, compilers and revision control systems on all unix-like operating systems. You will never have to learn another IDE again!
Main features:
- As you type context highlighting and Automatic (WYSIWYG) indentation
- Auto-competion and prototype hinting for C/C++
- Auto-completes C/C++ object attributes and functions when ., -> and :: are typed
- Offers both context-sensitive and context-less symbol completion hints.
- Displays function prototype hints and highlights each argument as it is typed
- Word completion
- Fully customizable fonts and colors and indentation
- As you type Begin/End construct matching and brace matching
- Multi-level undo, Bookmarks and Macro record/play
- SMED can also be run from the Command-line
- On-the-fly Function/Method List gathering and browsing for all supported languages
- Collapse/Expand Functionality
- Auto-save functionality
Enhancements:
- New project-wide live symbol panel and symbol server - maintains a live view of all the symbols defined in the project. A database of all the symbols is maintained by the symbol server and used by the symbol navigation facilities and the Coding Assistant. Code changes are parsed in the background without interrupting workflow.
- Improved Code Assistant - faster, smarter and more efficient. Can parse even the most complex C/C++ expressions. Saves time and prevents syntax errors.
- Improved code navigation capabilities - right-clicking on symbols in the symbol panel and editor now presents navigation options such as jump to definition, jump to declaration.
- New class/method/attribute management dialogs - add class, add method and add attribute accessible by rightclicking on targets and symbols in symbol panel and symbol names in editor.
- Improved Team Development - Project Structure, Build Configurations and environment variables are now store in Revision Control and shared between users.
- User-Configurable Build Configurations - User can define multiple build configurations, each with their own set of tools options and switch between them on the fly. Environment variables definitions are now also Build Configuration based.
- Recursively add directory trees to projects - user-defined filters are used to add source and include files to the project.
- New Include Path generation facility.
- Directories can now be linked to targets - Filters can be defined to compile and link directory contents into the target.
- Automated license request and installation.
- GUI updates (dockable panels)
- Support for upcoming VSS Bridge v2

Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.4, released in February 2005, provides significant technology enhancements over the v.3 release. Areas of specific development include improvements in security capabilities, increased server performance and scalability, and enhanced desktop capabilities?all while ensuring a high level of compatibility with prior releases.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux supports a wide range hardware and software applications, and is the worlds leading enterprise-focused Linux environment.
The following section outlines a few of the major new features in Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.4:
Linux 2.6 kernel infrastructure
Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.4 provides the most stable and robust commercial product based on the Linux communitys 2.6.9 kernel. Open source projects such as Fedora provided an environment for the Linux 2.6 kernel to mature significantly during 2004.
As a result, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.4 kernel offers numerous improvements over earlier kernels, including many enhanced algorithms and features:
- Generic logical CPU scheduler: Handles multi-core and hyperthreaded CPUs.
- Object-based Reverse Mapping VM: Improved performance in memory constrained systems.
- Read Copy Update: SMP algorithm optimization for operating system data structures.
- Multiple I/O schedulers: Selectable based on the application environment.
- Enhanced SMP & NUMA support: Improved performance and scalability for large servers.
- Network interrupt mitigation (NAPI): Improved performance for heavy network loads.
Improved storage and file system capabilities
Numerous enhancements have been incorporated into Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.4 that improve the scalability and performance of the data storage subsystems, including:
- Ext3 performance: Block Reservations and Hash Tree Directories improve the performance of read/write I/O and directory scanning operations.
- Ext3 scalability: Dynamic file system expansion and file system sizes up to 8TB are now supported.
- Logical Volume Management: A comprehensive update to the LVM provides new features such as read/write snapshots and transactional metadata updates, along with a flexible new management GUI. Mirroring and enhanced multipathing are scheduled for delivery by mid 2005.
- Scalability: Enhanced storage LUN management makes it possible to configure much larger storage subsystems.
- Automounting: The inclusion of AutoFSv4 provides sophisticated device access control, supporting features such as browsable mounts and replicated servers.
- Cost reduction: Support for Serial ATA disk storage provides increased performance, higher densities, and reduced cost per megabyte over traditional IDE devices.
New security capabilities
Provision of sophisticated security capabilities has been a specific development focus of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.4 release. New features:
- Mandatory Access Control: Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) provides a MAC infrastructure that complements the existing Discretionary Access Control security features provided by the standard Linux environment. In a MAC-based environment, application capabilities and privileges are set by predefined policies and enforced by the kernel. This prevents errant applications from compromising system security.
- Memory management enhancements: Several features, including Exec Shield and Position Independent Executables, combine to prevent applications from being exploited by attacks such as buffer overflows.
- Compile and runtime consistency checking: New buffer validation techniques in the GCC compiler and Glibc library greatly reduce the risk of faulty applications being compromised.
Improved desktop capabilities
Significant emphasis has been placed on providing a feature-rich, easy-to-use, desktop environment for all Red Hat Enterprise Linux family members (including Red Hat Desktop). A brief summary of new features:
- Personal productivity: Advanced user capabilities are provided by the OpenOffice.org productivity suite, the Firefox web browser and Evolution email client
- Plug-and-play device support: Easy handling of devices such as USB disks and digital cameras (as well as photo management applications such as gThumb)
- Multimedia: Applications for audio, video, and streaming content such as RhythmBox, HelixPlayer, Totem, and SoundJuicer
- User environment: GNOME 2.8 provides numerous enhancements for a more consistent graphical look and feel. Comprehensive management tools (e.g. printer and network management and VNC-based application session sharing) and utilities (e.g. Gaim instant messaging, and GIMP image processing) combine to provide a complete and highly functional user experience.
- Interoperability: Technologies that allow user login authentication with Microsoft Active Directory, NTLM authentication for web-based applications, Evolution mail client access to Windows Exchange Servers
- IIIMF: The Internet/Intranet Input Method framework provides the next-generation multilingual Unicode input method framework. It offers many features, such as full Unicode support and the ability to run multiple concurrent language engines.
Miscellaneous features
As a major new release, almost every aspect of Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been enhanced. Some of the more important improvements:
- Compatibility with prior releases: Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.4 includes compatibility libraries that enable most v.3 and v.2.1 applications to continue to run without modification.
- Languages: Focused on international standards, such as OpenI18N and GB18030, Red Hat Enterprise Linux has documentation and software available in 15 languages: English, Japanese, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, Italian, French, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, Devnagari, Bangla, Punjabi, Tamil, Gujarati.
- Auditing: In an update planned for mid-2005, a new auditing facility will be available that provides an open, bidirectional socket interface that can be used by auditing applications. It provides comprehensive auditing capabilities for SELinux and standard Linux events.
- File serving: Provision of NFSv4 provides features such improved security, operation coalescing and integrated file locking, while Samba provides easy access to Microsoft Windows printers and file shares.
- Software development: The latest GCC 3.4 compiler toolchain, and a technology preview of the forthcoming GCC 4.0 toolchain, are provided. These offer standards-compliant C/C++ and Fortran 95 development environments.
- Advanced configuration and power interface: Support for the ACPI standard enables a wide range of power management capabilities (battery monitoring, automated power down, suspend), and provides a foundation for increasingly sophisticated features in the future.
- Extras: Optional software is provided on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras CD and Red Hat Network channel. This includes features such as additional desktop applications (e.g. Adobe Reader, Macromedia Flash), Java environments, and printroom-quality Agfa/Monotype fonts.
Main features:
Server features summary
- Databases - Leading open source databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL
- Development - Environments for C, C++, Java, Fortran with Perl, Python, CVS and Emacs
- Engineering - Computational tools including blas, pvm, and lam
- File servers - FTP, NFS, and Samba (CIFS)
- Mail server - IMAP/POP servers with Cyrus, Sendmail, spamassassin
- Networking - Complete suite of network servers and firewall
- Printing - CUPS/lpr printing systems
- Security - Extensive features including SSL, IpSec, MAC/DAC
- Web server - Apache server with numerous mod/php plugins
Client features summary
- Document preparation - OpenOffice.org office suite 1
- Extensive Microsoft interoperability
- Laptop power management - APM/ACPI
- Mail - several clients including Evolution
- Multimedia support - applications for multiple audio/video formats
- Plug-and-play device support
- RDP terminal services
- Remote desktop sharing/collaboration
- User interface - GNOME-based with optional KDE
- Web browsing - Firefox
- Wireless support
- X Windows system

AMPC is a C Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that generates Java Bytecode.
The resulting executables will be able to run on any Java Virtual Machine (JVM). AMPC enables programmers to develop applications using the C language to run on JVM-enabled devices such as the PDAs, smart-phones, game consoles, set-top boxes, automotive systems (GPS based displays, On Star, Satellite radio systems, etc), and so forth, (with a single source base to manage), hence, opening up new revenue streams for your business.
Axiomatic Multi-Platform C could also be used to turn legacy applications written in C to run on the JVM, thus, opening up a whole new market dimension for your existing software products.
While students will be able to learn C which is a real-world programming language targeting the platform independent JVM.
Main features:
- Axiomatic C Compiler
- ANSI C Library
- Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
- Jasmin Assembler
- Project Navigator
- Source Code Editor
- Activities Logger
Version restrictions:
- Expires after 15 days.

Excelsior JET suite is a complete solution for protection, acceleration and deployment of your Java applications.
Excelsior JET Optimizer converts your applications classes and jars into highly optimized Intel x86 code and creates a native executable for Microsoft Windows or Linux platform.
Excelsior JET Runtime is a complete Java Virtual Machine that works with both Java classes and the executables produced by the Optimizer. It implements the Java SE platform, versions 5.0 and 1.4.2.
Excelsior JET Installation Toolkit facilitates rapid creation of complete installation packages for your optimized Java applications. Installation of the JRE on end-user machines is not required.
Excelsior JET Optimizer and Runtime have passed the Java Compatibility Kit test suite and are certified Java Compatible on a number of platforms.
Main features:
- Transform your Java applications classes and jars into conventional binary executables (EXEs and DLLs on Windows, executables and shared objects on Linux) that run without the Sun JRE
- Optimize applications that use any part of J2SE 5.0 or 1.4.2 platform API YESYES
- Optimize applications that rely on the Endorsed Standards Override Mechanism
- Intergrate the resulting executables with C/C++/Deplhi via JNI and Invocation API
- Intergrate the resulting executables with C++/VB6/VBA via COM (Windows only)
- Optimize applications essentially relying on dynamic class loading
- Optimize JIT compilers cache with the AOT compiler
- Reorder code and data segments of the resulting executables for faster startup and memory use reduction
- Turn your Java applications into Windows services using the supplied API and tools
- Pack resources (images, audio, etc.) into the resulting executables
- Create application setups based on Excelsior Installer (Windows only) or a third-party setup authoring tool
- Create compact Excelsior Installer-based setups (Windows only)
- Make applications display a native splash screen instantly upon startup
- NEW! Generate trial executables
- NEW! Create arbitrary shortcuts with custom icons in Excelsior Installer-based setups (Windows only)
- NEW! Create file associations in Excelsior Installer-based setups (Windows only)

Ermine project can pack Linux application together with shared libraries and data files into single executable. This file can be copied to any Linux box and application just run.
Main features:
Painless installation
- Only one file should be installed
- No "dependency hell"
- No need for root privileges
- No packaging for different formats (rpm, deb, tgz, ...)
Application integrity
- There is only one file, so no way applications and libraries or datas versions can be mismatched.
No interference with host
- Application use no external files, so from one side its installation not affect the host system and from other side application not affected by the hosts update.
No porting
- Application can be built (and packed) on the distribution of your choice and then run anywhere.
- There is no need to build for multiple distributions/compilers/libraries.
Decrease QA time
- Executable use no external files. This ensure same behavior on any distribution.
- Decrease support cost
No need to deal with installation issues.
- Application cant be broken by system update. Customer support have to deal only with applications own problems, and not try to find out what was done wrong on the clients Linux box.
Version restrictions:
- You can use evaluation version only for 15 days.
Enhancements:
- This release improves --ld_preload and --ld_library_path handling.

IntelliJ IDEA is an intelligent Java IDE intensely focused on developer productivity. It provides a robust combination of enhanced development tools, including refactoring, J2EE support, Ant, JUnit, and version controls integration.
Packaged with an intelligent Java editor, coding assistance and advanced code automation tools, IntelliJ IDEA enables Java programmers to boost their productivity while reducing routine time consuming tasks.
IntelliJ IDEA functionality is continuously extended by the users and third parties.
Main features:
- User Interface
- IDE Customization
- Code Editing
- Code Style
- Code Generation
- Refactoring
- Static Code Analysis
- Search & Replace
- I18N Support
- GUI Designer
- Compiler
- Running/Debugging
- Other Integrated Tools
- Full Java SDK 1.5 Support
- J2ME Support
- Open API & Plugins
- JavaScript Editor
- JSP Support
- HTML & CSS Editor
- XML Support
- J2EE Support
- Navigation
- Local History & Diff
- VCS Integrations