Nordic Global Announces Daytona, Free Java for AmigaOS

Nordic Global made a surprise announcement at Amiga99--Java for the Amiga! And best of all, the runtime package and developer package will be FREE!

Daytona is a complete Java 2 runtime system for AmigaOS, based on the "Java 2 Platform" by Sun Microsystems, Inc. Among other things it contains support for

• The complete Java 2 API and class set, directly derived from Sun's reference implementation, and therefore 100% compatible with the official Java specifications and releases (unlike some other Java runtime engines for Amiga OS).
• Multithreading, using a native Amiga implementation. No Unix emulation code or libraries required.
• File and socket I/O (multithreaded) including multicasting, URL handling and Internet protocol engines.
• AWT (Abstract Windows Toolkit): The basic Daytona package contains AWT runtime classes, but no native bindings AWT bindings for native AmigaOS displays are available as part of the Dayton~LUS package.
• JFC (Java Foundation Classes): Swing, Java 2D.
• CORBA.

DaytonaDEV is an add-on to Daytona. It is intended for developers who want to write their own Java programs, and compile them into Java byte code. DaytonaDEV contains the following items:

• Java byte-code compiler: launcher and all required runtime classes.
• Various tools (bytecode disassembler, documentation generator, archive management tools etc.)

DaytonaDEV is available FREE of charge.

Daytona PLUS(tm) DaytonaPLUS is an independently developed add-on to Daytona that provides additional Amiga-specific features. DaytonaPLUS contains:

• AWT bindings for native AmigaOS displays. Includes support for CyberGraphX and Picasso96 high/truecolor screens.
• BOOPSI "look-and-feel" for Swing.
• Applet API and runtime system with a stand-alone Applet viewer and a documented Applet API library, allowing Daytona to be used to add Java Applet support to AmigaOS web browsers.
• PowerPC support for PowerUP
• JIT (Just-In-Time) compilers for 68K and PPC.
• Support for precompiled native (68K and PPC) versions of all standard Java runtime classes. Daytona and DaytonaDEV come with complete sets of 68K/PPC-precompiled runtime classes for use with DaytonaPLUS.

DaytonaPLUS is distributed as shareware and requires registration. Registration fee: to be announced. For more information please contact Holger Kruse at Nordic Global Inc. (kruse@nordicglobal . corn, http://www.nordicglobal.com/). Projected release date of first public beta versions: summer 1999. Features are subject to change.

Daytona, DaytonaDEV and DaytonaPLUS are trademarks of Nordic Global Inc. Java and all Java-based marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other collutnea. Nordic Global Inc., Daytona, DaytonaDEV and DaytonaPLUS are independent of Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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