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Redwood City, Calif., April 6, 1998 - NetObjects, Inc. today announced that its NetObjects Fusion™ 3.0 Web site building application will be the first visual authoring product to immediately support Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), a new Java technology specification that enables the rapid development of client-server applications. NetObjects' unique implementation of EJB support is designed to allow both sophisticated IT developers as well as mainstream Web site builders to access enterprise data and applications.
NetObjects' support of EJB underscores the company's move toward providing solutions for enterprise customers. Since its availability two months ago, over fifty percent of people who have downloaded NetObjects Fusion 3.0 are IT developers, Webmasters and in-house corporate Web site builders. In addition, NetObjects TeamFusion 1.0 is solving the problem of Intranet publishing at over 100 corporations including Bell Atlantic, Cellular One and Motorola Semiconductor Corporation.
"Our support of EJB demonstrates NetObjects' belief that customers need easy access to those technology standards that solve their immediate business needs," said Martin Frid-Nielsen, NetObjects' vice president of engineering. "As sites become more complex in their use of data and business logic, we expect EJB to become a prevalent standard."
NetObjects' EJB support is manifested through the use of a servlet - server-side Java applet - interface. Site builders simply drop a Java servlet onto a Web page built in NetObjects Fusion 3.0 and customize its properties through a user-friendly properties palette. When deployed to a server, the servlet then triggers a similar action, which uses EJB to access back-end enterprise data and applications. Developers can build and customize EJBs and integrate them with servlets placed in NetObjects Fusion, while departmental site builders can use pre-built EJBs to access enterprise information. The advanced site-developer may also choose to use NetObjects Fusion's open Java-based API (NFX) technology to write a plug-in component that surfaces the EJB directly as a page layout object inside NetObjects Fusion.
By integrating NetObjects' servlet capabilities with EJB, developers can now create solutions for the development of dynamic content, as well as specific applications like e-commerce and personalization. For example, developers use EJBs to extract and format product names and prices from a database on the server. By using NetObjects Fusion 3.0's servlet capabilities, developers can now use a visual tool to layout and design that dynamically driven content on any web page. Now product catalogs, customized pages, and the like can be created and maintained with the simplicity of a visual tool.
Current TeamFusion™ 1.0 users can externally reference sections of their site built in NetObjects Fusion 3.0 to gain access to EJB technology. Future versions of NetObjects TeamFusion will have a closer integration with EJB technology.
About NetObjects
NetObjects, Inc. is a privately-held company that is funded by IBM, Perseus LLC, AT&T Ventures, Norwest Venture Capital, Venrock Associates, Rae Technology LLC and private investors. NetObjects' partners include Apple Computer (NASDAQ:AAPL), AT&T (NYSE: T), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Netscape (NASDAQ: NSCP), and Sun Microsystems' Javasoft (NASDAQ: SUNW).
About the NetObjects Product Family
The NetObjects product family consists of NetObjects Fusion Personal Edition for entry-level site builders, NetObjects Fusion 3.0 for experienced site builders, NetObjects TeamFusion for site building teams and NetObjects ScriptBuilder™ 2.0 for scripting. All the products are the first in their class to integrate automated site building, professional quality design and publishing, thereby lowering the cost, time and tedium of building high-quality Web sites. NetObjects Fusion has won several awards including CNET's 1997 Internet Excellence Award for Best Web Design Product and PC Magazine's Editors Choice award. More information about NetObjects and its product can be found at www.netobjects.com,
For press inquiries contact:
Priti Khare,
NetObjects,
(650) 482-3251,
priti@netobjects.com
(c)1998 NetObjects, Inc. All rights reserved. NetObjects, NetObjects Fusion, NetObjects TeamFusion, and ScriptBuilder are trademarks of NetObjects, Inc. All other brand and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
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