Novell to support Java WorkShop Web tool
By Paul Krill
InfoWorld Electric
Posted at 10:26 AM PT, May 28, 1996
Novell Inc. on Wednesday will reveal plans to support Sun
Microsystems Inc.'s Java WorkShop Web development tool for building
NetWare-based Java applets, sources familiar with the announcement
said.
Java WorkShop, which is due to ship in August, is a multiplatform
development environment written entirely in Sun's Java development
language. Java WorkShop could be a big benefit to Novell once Java
and Java WorkShop start to mature, said analyst Evan Quinn of
International Data Corp., which is based in Framingham, Mass.
"If NetWare developers are building applications for a Web slant, then
Java WorkShop is a natural. The problem with Java WorkShop is it's
not ready for prime time yet," Quinn said. The Java language lacks the
rich class libraries and performance of C++, he added.
In March, Novell announced plans to have the Java Virtual Machine and
Java class libraries ported to NetWare by the end of 1996. NetWare,
with its NetWare Loadable Modules, has traditionally been an awkward
platform for developers to work on. Java WorkShop has the potential to
ease this burden. Java is the only tool specifically built for Web
development, Quinn said.
Novell hopes its support for Java will help to position NetWare and
Novell Directory Services (NDS) as networking services platforms for
the Internet. NDS will be able to treat Java applets as objects within the
directory.
Java WorkShop is slated to cost $295 per license.
Novell can be reached at novell.com. SunSoft can be
reached at sun.sunsoft.com.
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