Jewels and Joy

Neuron Data's new products, Joy and Jewels, are scheduled to ship in June 1997. Incorporated into Neuron Data's flagship Elements, these products help position Neuron Data as a software-component company addressing a broad spectrum of professional application development in C, C++, and Java. The tools provide a scalable, Web-based application-development capability that leverages and extends the features of Java. Neuron Data's new tools target developers who need scalable user interfaces and business rules for Web applications.

Jewels lets you separate business rules from application code and capture them in one knowledge base. Users can access the rules quickly from any distributed enterprise or Internet application. In addition, Jewels supports distributed applications in which rules can reside both on the server and the client via "smartlets" (Jewel-enabled Java applets).

Jewels is a set of high-performance, Java class libraries that runs on any platform with a Java virtual machine and in any browser that supports Java. Because Jewels is written in Java, small, fast rules-based applications can be downloaded seamlessly to end users for secure rule execution on the client. This also allows Jewels to leverage pull and push technologies such as Neuron Data's Distributed Messaging Element, Orbix Talk, or Marimba Castanet.