Canoo completes porting of Visual Editor to new Eclipse framework

Basel, Switzerland - June 28, 2004 - Canoo Engineering today announced
the release of ULC Visual Editor 2.0 for Eclipse
(http://www.canoo.com/ulc/products/ulcvisualeditor.html). The Visual
Editor is a "drag-and-drop" GUI designer plug-in for UltraLightClient.
It supports developing rich thin GUIs for J2EE applications, providing
developers with real-time feedback during interface design.

Following its decision in November 2003 to participate in the Eclipse
Visual Editor project, the Swiss company decided to port ULC Visual
Editor to the new Eclipse visual GUI construction and editor platform.
Canoo's GUI designer is the first software tool that is based on the
Eclipse Visual Editor project.

About UltraLightClient
UltraLightClient (ULC) is a Java library that provides thin client
support for Swing, the standard component library for rich Java
clients. Using this library, server-side J2EE applications offer rich
Swing-based graphical user interfaces in a thin-client architecture.

ULC shields the developer from the complexities of client/server code
distribution by taking care of the code split. The application is
deployed on the server, while an application-independent presentation
engine handles the user interface on the client. The presentation
engine can be run as an applet or distributed by JNLP.

Based on open standards, ULC easily integrates with any J2EE software.
It provides developers with a homogeneous Java environment and speeds
up both development and deployment of client/server applications.

Software Requirements
ULC Visual Editor 2.0 requires the following software:
- Eclipse 2.1.2 or Eclipse 2.1.3
- Eclipse Visual Editor 0.5.0
- UltraLightClient 5.1.3 or higher
- JRE 1.3.1 and higher

Pricing
ULC Visual Editor 2.0 costs US$ 499.- per developer license and can be
purchased directly from the product web site. A free evaluation
license is available for 30 days.

Developers using Eclipse can now benefit from this new ULC tool. In
addition, Canoo offers a client/server simulator and a load and
performance tester for ULC.

For more information on ULC, visit the product site at:
http://www.canoo.com/ulc