[WarpCast] Special pre-announcement for OS/2 - PalmPilot users! - 4/29/99




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Source: Brad BARCLAY (yaztromo@idirect.com)
Moderator: Christopher B. Wright (wrightc@dtcweb.com)
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SPECIAL PRE-ANNOUNCEMENT FOR OS/2 FANS!

Now that I have you attention... :)

     On Saturday, May 1st I'm planning to start doing an advertising
blitz to announce my latest Java-based product, "The Java-PalmPilot 
Project". However, as a long-time OS/2 user, supporter and advocate I 
thought I would make sure that my friends in the OS/2 community 
got ahold of this news (and the ability to download a pre-release 
version) before everyone else does this weekend :).

     The Java-PalmPilot Project, under development for the last 8
months, is a set of developers tools and GUI based end-user applications 
for synchronizing your Palm Computing Platform device (Palm 1000 - 5000, 
PalmPilot Personal and Pro, and Palm III) with your personal computer.  
It runs on any personal computer capable of running Java 1.1 and either 
the Sun Java Communications API or the JSerial Handler API (which, of 
course, includes OS/2).

     The entire project has been developed 100% under OS/2 WARP v4,
using IBM's VisualAge for Java 2.0 Professional for OS/2, and has 
been verified as 100% Pure Java Certifiable by Sun's JavaPureCheck 
program.

     The program features full Palm Computing Platform synchronization
with third-party Personal Information Managers via third party 
jConduit plug-ins, installation of PRC and PDB files, full compressed 
Palm Computing Platform device backup and restore, and date and time 
synchronization.  It also features third-party jConduit plug-in 
support, third-party national language plug-in support (support 
currently available for English and Esperanto), and a
fully open, 
documented API for developers to use individual components
(such 
as the jHotSync Protocol Stack) in their own projects.

     A free pre-release version is currently avalable for SOHO and
personal use from the project homepage at:

http://yaztromo.idirect.com/java-pilot.html

     The project homepage is currently under reconstruction in
anticipation of the product's official launch on May 1st, however it 
does have the download link and basic setup instructions available, 
along with an E-Mail address to contact for help and support.

     Additionally, we're looking for Java Developers interested in
writing jConduits for synchronizing with popular personal information 
packages, and developers interested in porting the language plug-in module 
to other national languages.  A developers page has been setup at:

http://yaztromo.idirect.com/java-pilot-dev.html

     Interested developers are encouraged to visit and peruse this
site, and to contact us at yaztromo@idirect.com for additional 
information and support.

     Any and all questions, comments and inquiries are welcome!

Brad BARCLAY,
Lead Developer,
The Java-PalmPilot Project.

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