This month:
News & Notes
Integrated Web Server
Puts a New Spin on JavaBean Development
A new Java authoring tool called Spin from Zat includes an integrated Web server,
making it possible to debug servlets remotely, setting break points and stepping
through an application with a browser.
Using Spin, authors can create new JavaBeans or work with existing ones. Spin
can author full applications, applets, servlets, and JavaBean components that
the program calls "actors." The actors have behaviors associated with them.
The actors' behaviors are triggered by stimuli such as a user clicking on a
hot spot or pulling down a menu, or by another program sending instructions.
In a pop-up Java menu, the author selects the activity that will trigger the
action, selects the name of the JavaBean actor, and sets any communication to
be sent to the actor (or to another actor). Authors can include Java expressions
when they define actors' behavior.
