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Jabberwocky Toolkit V2.0

HIGHLIGHTS

o  Now available for DEC OSF/1, OpenVMS, and Windows platforms

o  New event driven tools enhance legacy application integration

o  StarStream products provide an incremental migration path from legacy
   applications to a three tier client/server architecture

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

The Jabberwocky Toolkit V2.0 (SPD 54.42) focuses on application integration
at a user interface and business process redesign level. It provides rapid
solution development capability for an information technology environment
where many of the applications used do not conform to any accepted standards
based architecture. The Jabberwocky Toolkit uses rapid application
development (RAD) services, via an integrated set of user interface,
scripting, and terminal management tools for linking, integrating, and
representing business applications.

Dialogue Bus Runtime Services is for users who require support for Motif
based workstations. Dialogue Bus Application Server is for users who intend
to serve applications to a distributed PC environment. Additional products
can then be layered on these base packages to configure the runtime
environment as required.

BENEFITS

The Jabberwocky Toolkit allows users to make small, rapid, evolutionary
changes that build on systems that already exist. Each change is of minimal
risk, takes a short time to produce, and generates some return on the
investment while building toward the future. Users are able to follow an
incremental migration path from their legacy systems to an object oriented
three tier client/server environment.

AVAILABILITY AND ORDERING

The Jabberwocky Toolkit V2.0 is available now.

The Jabberwocky Toolkit V2.0, with the exception of StarStream for Windows,
is supported on OpenVMS VAX V6.0 or later and on OpenVMS AXP V1.5 or later
on Alpha AXP processors, and on DEC OSF/1 V2.0 or later on Alpha AXP
processors.

StarStream for Windows is supported on Windows V3.1 or later on 80386,
80486, and 80586 processors.

Order No.        Description

		 Jabberwocky Toolkit for DEC OSF/1:
Q2-GQL*M-3B	 Dialogue Bus Runtime Services
		 Consists of:
		 1 Q2-36U*M-3B Dialogue Bus
		 1 Q2-3BT*M-3B Motif Menu Manager
		 1 Q2-3BW*M-3B Script Processor
		 1 Q2-3BZ*M-3B DECterm Manager
Q2-GQL*M-H5/H9	 Dialogue Bus Runtime Services Kit TK50/MT9

Q2-GQH*M-3B	 Dialogue Bus Application Server
		 Consists of:
		 1 Q2-36U*M-3B Dialogue Bus
		 1 Q2-3BW*M-3B Script Processor
		 1 Q2-3BM*M-3B Screen Monitor Program
		 1 Q2-378*M-3B Transition Network Tool
		 1 Q2-3BJ*M-3B StarStream-DB

Q2-GQL*M-H5/H9	 Dialogue Bus Application Server Kit TK50/MT9

Q2-36U*M-3B	 Dialogue Bus Concurrent Use License
Q2-36U*M-H9/H5	 Dialogue Bus Runtime Kit MT9/TK50

                 Dialogue Bus Motif Menu Manager:
Q2-3BT*M-3B	 Concurrent Use License
Q2-3BT*M-H9/H5	 Runtime Kit MT9/TK50

                 Dialogue Bus Script Processor:
Q2-3BW*M-3B	 Concurrent Use License
Q2-3BW*M-H9/H5	 Runtime Kit MT9/TK50

                 Dialogue Bus DECterm Manager:
Q2-3BZ*M-3B	 Concurrent Use License
Q2-3BZ*M-H9/H5	 Runtime Kit MT9/TK50

                 Dialogue Bus Screen Monitor Program:
Q2-3BM*M-3B	 Concurrent Use License
Q2-3BM*M-H9/H5	 Runtime Kit MT9/TK50

                 Dialogue Bus Transition Network Tool:
Q2-378*M-3B	 Tool Concurrent Use License
Q2-378*M-H9/H5	 Tool Runtime Kit MT9/TK50

                 Dialogue Bus 'Hot' Image Manager:
Q2-37B*M-3B	 Concurrent Use License
Q2-37B*M-H9/H5	 Runtime Kit MT9/TK50
Q2-3BJ*M-3B	 StarStream-DB Concurrent Use License
Q2-3BJ*M-H9/H5	 StarStream-DB Runtime Kit MT9/TK50

		 Jabberwocky Toolkit for OpenVMS:
Q2-GQN*A-3B	 Dialogue Bus Runtime Services
		 Consists of:
		 1 Q2-36W*M-3B Dialogue Bus
		 1 Q2-3BV*M-3B Motif Menu Manager
		 1 Q2-3BY*M-3B Script Processor
		 1 Q2-3C1*M-3B DECterm Manager
Q2-GQN*A-H5/H9	 Dialogue Bus Runtime Services Kit TK50/MT9

Q2-GQK*A-3B	 Dialogue Bus Application Server
		 Consists of:
		 1 Q2-36W*M-3B Dialogue Bus
		 1 Q2-3BV*M-3B Script Processor
		 1 Q2-3C3*M-3B Screen Monitor Program
		 1 Q2-37A*M-3B Transition Network Tool
		 1 Q2-3BL*M-3B StarStream-DB

Q2-GQK*A-H5/H9	 Dialogue Bus Application Server Kit TK50/MT9

Q2-36W*A-3B	 Dialogue Bus Concurrent Use License
Q2-36W*A-H9/H5	 Dialogue Bus Runtime Kit MT9/TK50

                 Dialogue Bus Motif Menu Manager:
Q2-3BV*A-3B	 Concurrent Use License
Q2-3BV*A-H9/H5	 Runtime Kit MT9/TK50

                 Dialogue Bus Script Processor:
Q2-3BY*A-3B	 Concurrent Use License
Q2-3BY*A-H9/H5	 Runtime Kit MT9/TK50

                 Dialogue Bus DECterm Manager:
Q2-3C1*A-3B	 Concurrent Use License
Q2-3C1*A-H9/H5	 Runtime Kit MT9

                 Dialogue Bus Screen Monitor Program:
Q2-3C3*A-3B	 Concurrent Use License
Q2-3C3*A-H9/H5	 Runtime Kit MT9/TK50

                 Dialogue Bus Transition Network Tool:
Q2-37A*A-3B	 Concurrent Use License
Q2-37A*A-H9/H5	 Runtime Kit MT9/TK50

                 Dialogue Bus 'Hot' Image Manager:
Q2-3BQ*A-3B	 Concurrent Use License
Q2-3BQ*A-H9/H5	 Runtime Kit MT9/TK50
Q2-3BLAA-3B	 StarStream-DB Concurrent Use Lic.
Q2-3BLAA-H9/H5	 StarStream-DB Runtime Kit MT9/TK50

		 Jabberwocky Toolkit For Windows:
Q2-GQJ*W-AA	 StarStream for Windows License
Q2-GQJ*W-HC	 StarStream for Windows Runtime Kit
Q2-GQT*A-AA	 StarStream for Windows SDK Package
		 (includes software license, media,
		 and documentation)

SERVICES

A wide range of services exist for the Jabberwocky Toolkit.

TECHNICAL DATA

Dialogue Bus

The Dialogue Bus is the key component of the Jabberwocky Toolkit. The
Dialogue Bus is a nonprivileged, user level program that provides a
mechanism for integrating applications that use standard input (keyboard)
and standard output (screen) channels (i.e., terminal based applications).
The Dialogue Bus can be used to integrate applications that are running on
any platform to which a terminal emulation session can be established (e.g.
IBM, ICL, Bull, Hewlett Packard, VAX, Alpha AXP, PDP-11, and so on). Because
of its asynchronous multitasking capability, the Dialogue Bus can manage
'conversations' with several legacy application simultaneously.

Script Processor (Script)

The Script Processor is a simple programming language that has been
specifically designed for the Dialogue Bus environment.

Motif Menu Manager (MenuMan)

Allows new Motif user interfaces to be generated from simple ASCII text
definition files. This allows the development of a common user interface,
optimized for a particular business process, but often accessing several non
Motif applications.

DECterm Terminal Manager

Enhances the capability of the standard DECterm to allow dynamic,
application specific pull down menu bars and application control of
placement, size, color, iconized and de-iconized, and visible and concealed
attributes.

Motif 'Hot' Image Manager (Himage)

Allows 'Hot Spots' to be interactively associated with X11 bitmaps or GIF
image files. These 'hot' images can then be used as a user interface to
terminal based applications.

Screen Monitor Program (SMP)

SMP is an advanced, rule based, event driven ANSI compliant "screen
scraper." Connecting an application to SMP via the Dialogue Bus allows
applications to respond to screen based events such as appearance of error
text, text attribute, or color change. SMP can also be used to "scrape" data
off an applications structured screen output.

Transition Network Tool (TNT)

TNT is used to create and manage a matrix of events, actions, and data
expressions. A spreadsheet model changing a data item will cause TNT to
evaluate all other "cells" that are affected by the change. This in turn may
cause messages to be dispatched to other applications on the Dialogue Bus.
Combined with SMP, TNT allows complex interactions between legacy
applications to be easily and reliably monitored and controlled. TNT can
also be used as an information store between applications and services
connected to the Dialogue Bus.

StarStream-DB

Layered on the DECMessageQueue persistent messaging protocol, StarStream-DB
allows Dialogue Bus environments to communicate with each other over a wide
area network.

StarStream for Windows (SPD 54.62)

Like StarStream-DB, StarStream for Windows is layered on DECMessageQueue.
Implemented as a Visual Basic Custom Control, StarStream for Windows enables
application programmers to develop Windows applications that communicate
with application services provided by Dialogue Bus environments. StarStream
for Windows also supports the standard (PASCAL) Windows API calling
convention so that it can be used from most programming environments
including C and C++ bindings.

StarStream for Windows also supports Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) so that,
using the Jabberwocky Toolkit, a 20 year old IBM 3270 based application can
now be used as a data server to an Excel spreadsheet and accessed using a
Windows user interface.

StarStream for Windows Software Developer's Kit

The Software Developer's Kit contains a development version of the runtime
custom control and language bindings file that allows application
programmers to make use of the facilities offered by StarStream for Windows.
The package also includes the Programming and Configuration Guide and
debugging tools that will aid both programmers and system managers in
establishing a StarStream for Windows environment.

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