Castanet from Marimba is designed to overcome these constraints. Castanet is the emerging solution for distributing and maintaining Java software applications and content within a company or across the Internet. Netscape Communications is integrating Marimba's Castanet Tuner, the client component of Castanet, into the Netcaster component of Netscape Communicator. Netcaster, the newest component of Netscape Communicator, enables push delivery of information and offline browsing. Netcaster seamlessly integrates with Channel Finder, the source for the best channels on the Internet.
Users can subscribe to the information they want and have it delivered automatically.
Offline browsing allows users to take the valuable resources of the Web offline with them - wherever they go. Netcaster users can seamlessly subscribe to any of the hundreds of existing Castanet channels, all from within Netcaster. Castanet provides one approach to building a Netcaster channel. With the release of Constellation, Castanet channels you create will be exposed to a large audience. With Castanet, you're no longer constrained to distributing small applets over the Internet, and users aren't tied up waiting for files to download.