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Soft Technologies (Sydney, Australia) is pleased to announce the
availability of the pre-release version of its Java/C++ class
libraries which enable the development of cross-platform,
client-server applications operating across the Internet.

STOCS (pronounced 'stocks'), as we have named our middleware
libraries, is a by-product of our work on Internet/Intranet business
applications which we will announce shortly. In releasing STOCS we
hope to reduce the amount of re-invention which is rife in the
software industry (we may be guilty!) and assist other developers
leverage their application development utilising STOCS.

STOCS is documented on our web site,

http://www.softt.com.au/SOFTT_DEV/dev_index.htm

with examples of its use. Pre-release material is available for
download via the web or by ftp 

ftp://www.softt.com.au/pub/softt/stocs

and will be updated regularly. The official release of STOCS is
planned for late May, 1996.

Briefly, STOCS supports the asynchronous communication of objects
between a client and a server, providing the basis of a server which
can accommodate multiple clients operating across TCP/IP. 

STOCS currently provides:

    *   Java and C++ libraries to quickly generate client/server
        applications
        
    *   the nucleus of a server which can be extended to provide
        application specific capabilities server 
        
    *   support for multi-threaded execution 
        
    *   support for OO principles (but not distributed objects) 
        
    *   cross-platform support (currently Windows NT, with Windows
        3.1/95, MacOS and Unix planned)

STOCS does not implement distributed objects and is not CORBA
compliant. We call STOCS "objectified client-server" and it works
simply and effectively, without the learning curve and resource/cost
overheads of fully distributed objects. 

We welcome your feedback and comment on STOCS. Basically, where STOCS
goes from here is in large measure up to you and the software
community on the Internet.