March 23, 1998 - ICL announced today two Java versions of its award-winning DAIS(R) object request broker (ORB).

With DAIS J2 and DAIS J3, ICL is the first vendor to offer second-generation Java ORBs that use Portable Object Adapter (POA) technology, which will be included in the forthcoming update to the Object Management Group's CORBA specification.

ICL also announced that DAIS J2 will be offered at no charge to developers, making it the first commercial strength object request broker to be available at no cost for developing distributed applications.

The fully functional DAIS J2 toolkit, which enables users to develop 100% pure Java client and server applications using standard CORBA technology, will be available at no cost later this month. DAIS J3 will enable CORBA-based Java applications to exploit the enterprise-strength CORBA Security and Transaction services available with the full DAIS product set.

DAIS J2 features

DAIS J2 supports all the current, most widely used industry standards and tools including:

• the latest OMG standard for Interface Definition Language (IDL)
• Java mapping and Java ORB portability interfaces
• a ``100% Pure Java,'' browser-independent runtime class-set
• JavaSoft's Java Development Kit, Version 1.1 (JDK 1.1) compiler

• DAIS Internet Gateway daemon
• Full runtime support for HTTP tunnelling to access services outside Web server host system

• support for the core DAIS Trader service

DAIS J3, the full enterprise version of the product, gives users additional access to the full features of DAIS across other languages and ICL's CORBA-conformant Event, Security and Transaction services, the key components of an object transactional middleware environment. The DAIS J3 development kit is priced at $2,995.

DAIS web site - www.daisorb.com

ICL - www.icl.com