1060 NetKernel 3.3 Released
November 27, 2007, Bristol, UK - 1060(R) Research, Ltd is
pleased to announce the release of 1060(R) NetKernelTM
3.3
1060 NetKernelTM is a resource-oriented computing
platform and application server. NetKernel is built on Java (TM)
and will run on any operating system supporting Java 1.4.2 or
later.
"This new release of NetKernel is a significant milestone in
evolution of the NetKernel 3 product line. NetKernel 3.3 contains
new tools and documentation that make it easier to learn resource
oriented computing (ROC) and see the inner workings of applications
written on the NetKernel ROC platform", says Peter Rodgers, CEO of
1060 Research.
NetKernel 3.3 now features the Request Visualizer, a tool that
captures resource requests and displays information about their
processing from initiation by a transport through all spawned
sub-requests. The Visualizer presents a three-level drill-down
display which includes detailed information about each step of
request processing. Through its visual presentation the tool
provides both a comprehensive high-level view of application
processing as well as fine-grained details of each facet, including
whether results are returned from the system cache or computed by
an accessor.
NetKernel 3.3 includes reorganized and rewritten documentation.
"We recognize that resource oriented computing is new.
Experimentation led us to a new approach to introduce ROC that is
used in the Getting Started Guide and other documentation. We
reorganized the books to group related material. The new Resource
Model book highlights the importance of resource models and allows
us to document future models easily." mentions Rodgers.
Performance of HTTP based applications will now use less network
bandwidth and run faster due to support for if-modified-since,
eTags and HTTP 304 support. "NetKernel already provided a
high-performance solution for HTTP based applications. The
modifications to the HTTP transport now allows browsers to
coordinate their cache with NetKernel's cache and only transfer
information that has changed since last requested. The change was
very simple to make because of the resource oriented foundation of
NetKernel" comments Rodgers.
New in NetKernel 3.3 is an Image resource model. This model is
based on the Java 2D API and provides support for services such as
crop, rotate, scale and others. Transreption from the new image
resource type to physical types such as PNG and GIF is supported.
NetKernel resource models include XML, Image, JSON, Pinky (Atom and
RSS feeds) and RDF.
NetKernel's industry leading support for dynamic programming
languages continues. Ruby support, first introduced in NetKernel
3.1 has been upgraded to a fully supported language with the
inclusion of JRuby 1.0.1. A new language option, PHP, is available
as an experimental language from the 1060 Research NetKernel update
servers.
About NetKernel
NetKernel is a resource-oriented computing platform built on
micro-kernel architecture that extends and combines concepts seen
in Unix and the Web. It provides advanced technology that makes
building powerful software simple and less expensive.
With resource-oriented computing, developers work at a flexible
logical level, composing solutions using information resources and
services. The resource-oriented level rests above the physical
API-based level of objects, code and data. Customers using
NetKernel report a ten to one-hundred times reduction in code
compared to systems developed using physical computing based
systems such as Java, J2EE, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), and
Microsoft .Net.
NetKernel 3.3 is offered for use with either the 1060 Public
open-source license or commercial license.
About 1060 Research, Limited
Founded in 2002 with technology seeding from Hewlett-Packard
Labs, 1060 Research, Ltd. is an industry leading innovator of
software infrastructure and the leading voice in Resource-Oriented
Computing.
www.1060research.com
