Symantec Corp, Cupertino is offering Espresso, which it claims is the first Java development environment for Windows95 and Windows NT. Espresso is said to be a fully integrated development environment, which seamlessly integrates Sun Microsystems Inc’s Java Development Kit with class and project management capabilities within a graphical development environment. It supports project and sub-project developments and the building of Java applets and Java console applications from within the development environment. It also includes Wizard-like tools to aid developers that are unfamiliar with the Java programming language, generating skeleton Java applets and applications that can then be extended. Developers with Symantec C++ 7.2 for Windows 95/NT can upgrade by downloading Espresso from Symantec’s Web site at www.symantec.com. A version of Espresso for the Power Macintosh development environment is promised later this quarter. Meanwhile the development products division of Sun Microsystems Inc is said to be working on its own integrated development environment for Java. This will be the equivalent of its Workshop development tools for C++, C, Fortran and Ada. Sun believes that Java programmers will require the functionality and structured development provided by its Workshop tools if they are to achieve fully-controlled Web applications. The first fruits should arrive in February or March.
