Phaos Technology has developed a toolkit for developing Java applications and applets to access digital certificates directly from a browser's certificate store. The Browser Scout is an ActiveX control that exposes a Java API accessible from within a browser's VM. Applets using Browser Scout can list the certificates in the browser's certificate store, export a selected certificate, and use the private key.
Phaos Technology
11 Broadway
New York, NY 10004
212-514-6515
http://www.phaos.com/

ILOG's CPLEX 7.5 optimization software engine includes a Java programming interface. Targeted toward web applications that must perform complex decision making tasks, the new release contains Java objects for variables, constraints, and models and is intended to allow mathematical programming and constraint programming to be used in hybrid solutions. Users can customize the CPLEX solving algorithms for special problems, and can link new Java routines to the CPLEX engine.
ILOG Inc.
889 Alder Avenue
Incline Village, NV 89451
775-881-2800
http://www.ilog.com/

Compuware has released OptimalJ, a development environment for J2EE applications. OptimalJ supplies wizards, utilities, and patterns to aid developers, along with a Domain Model Editor and a Business Rules Editor. A source editor, class browser, form editor, and debugger are also included. Existing classes not generated by OptimalJ can be imported and called by the application; the source editor identifies managed source code, business rule code, and custom source code separately.