By Jill Steinberg t Software Development '96 East, Sun Microsystems's software division announced new products aimed at Java developers and programmers, as well as HTML authors and Internet content providers. While all three tools can be used by programmers, Sun made much of the fact that Project Studio is specially targeted for those who lack programming experience. Project Studio gives HTML authors and Web content creators the power to develop content for the Web without having to write code. Initial product descriptions call to mind tools like Aimtech's Jamba or Marimba's Bongo, which are created for nonprogrammers.
Studio also boasts manipulation via forms, spreadsheet support, and whiteboard and chat components.
In fact, Studio is one of the first implementations of JavaBeans. By putting together JavaBeans that already exist, new, aggregate JavaBeans can be developed. According to Weber, Studio may be just the thing to provoke developers and users to find an answer. At the Software Development conference, which took place in Washington, D.C. October 29-November 1, Weber and Joe Keller, director of marketing for SunSoft's WorkShop Product Group, demo'ed Studio. Clicking on the button, the stock information on the spreadsheet could get instantly converted to a 3-D graph.