M7® Debuts NitroX™ for JavaServer Pages™

M7 Delivers Comprehensive JSP Debugging, Simultaneous Source and Visual JSP Development

CUPERTINO, CA - July 27, 2004 – M7 Corporation, Inc., the leader in web application development tools based on open source and open standard technologies, today introduced NitroX for JSP. NitroX for JSP was created to be the most comprehensive tool to meet the needs of Java™ developers building Java Server Pages (JSP)-based web applications. As open source and open standard technologies have continued to proliferate, a number of development trends are emerging:

• Java based web applications predominantly use JSP as the primary user interface technology for web applications

• Debugging JSPs is one of the biggest problems facing developers

• Over 50% of Java developers use an Eclipse-based IDE as their development environment

M7 NitroX for JSP expands the NitroX product family by adding a solution for JSP developers, and follows the highly acclaimed NitroX for Struts, which debuted at the 2004 JavaOne conference. NitroX for JSP provides a broad array of advanced functionality that dramatically enhances the productivity of web application development and supports Eclipse 2.1 and 3.0, IBM WSAD 5.1.x, and IBM WSSD 5.1.x.

NitroX for JSP provides the following key benefits:

Advanced JSP Debugging
In addition to standard line stepping, NitroX also provides smart stepping into tag libraries and JSP includes for JBoss™, Tomcat, BEA WebLogic™ and IBM WebSphere™. NitroX adds a JSP variables view allowing developers to easily navigate variable data structures and set variable values as they debug their web applications.

Intelligent Context Sensitive JSP Source Editor
NitroX AppXRay brings a new level of code completion efficiency to development by understanding all the artifacts between the various layers of web applications.. The NitroX JSP release also adds code completion within Java Scriplets in a JSP.

Visual JSP Editor
NitroX provides unique (WYSIWYG) rendering and editing capabilities, with immediate view and access to JSP including pages and standard or custom tag libraries. JSP source and visual editors are fully synchronized with the original source and formatting preserved. Pages can be edited visually, as source, or simultaneously providing a unique way of understanding and developing JSP applications.


Developer Reaction

"I've never been able to build a web application in such a short period of time. With NitroX, you have the opportunity to not only choose between source and visual editors for JSP pages but utilize both concurrently depending on your coding objective."
- Andrew Timpone, Project Manager from FedEx Custom Critical


Pricing and Availability

NitroX for JSP, Eclipse Edition is now available and priced at $299. A new purchase includes a one-year subscription for product updates, bug fixes and includes major version upgrades of the product that become available during the term of the subscription. No version games, just pure productivity. For a preview of what is ahead on the NitroX roadmap, please visit: www.m7.com/roadmap.jsp. To purchase, please visit: www.m7.com or contact M7 Sales at sales@m7.com (1-866-770-9770).

About M7 Corporation

M7 Corporation, Inc, the leader in web application tools based on open source and open standard technologies, is exclusively focused on improving the development of web applications for serious developers who want to avoid platform lock-in. M7 draws on its long history of experience in understanding the complexity of web application development – the proliferation of J2EE platforms, web containers, web application frameworks such as Struts and public and custom tag libraries. Drawing on this depth of understanding, M7 develops innovative products, such as NitroX, which fuel an incredibly high level of productivity in creating, editing, or debugging any part of a complex web application.

Based in Cupertino, CA, M7 is privately held and venture backed by Highland Capital Partners, Redpoint Ventures, CIR Ventures and Genevest. For additional information, visit the company’s web site at www.m7.com.


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