The beta version of the Curl Run Time Environment (RTE) for Macintosh has been announced recently by Curl®, Inc. The Curl RTE, a key component of the Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) Platform, is the engine that executes Curl applications and displays their user interfaces. The Mac Beta release of the RTE is intended for customers looking to run their Curl Windows and Linux-developed applications on the Macintosh. The Mac Beta RTE can be downloaded free of charge at http://www.curl.com/download/index.php.

The Mac Beta RTE obeys standard Macintosh user interface conventions and has the full range of features that are supported by the Curl Windows and Linux RTE products.

Among them we can find:

    * High security - Offers flexible and reliable privilege-based security functions.
    * Full multimedia support – Includes 2D and 3D graphics libraries, scripting of event-based interactions, support for dynamic animations and audio data.
    * Integrated controls, dialogs and layout objects - Offers all the capabilities of HTML controls and HTML forms.
    * Just-in-time compiler – Compiles Curl content language applications into native code that executes with the full performance of the client machine.
    * Declarative and elastic graphical layouts – Layouts can be described declaratively, as in HTML. Layouts also adapt elastically to the size of the window in which they are displayed, so users can size browser windows as they prefer.
    * Fully internationalized GUI system – Includes support for text entry and display using Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
    * Unmatched connectivity - Supports all standard networking protocols and server-side architectures and protocols, including HTTP, HTTPS, XML, cookies, TCP/IP, SOAP, Unicode, PHP, J2EE and .Net.

    Bert Halstead, vice president and chief architect, Curl, stated: “With the return of the Mac to the enterprise, we realized the need to provide that growing community with the same ability to execute Curl applications that Windows and Linux users already enjoy. Now, Mac users can benefit from the advantages found only in Curl-based Web applications, including highly complex user interfaces, large data sets, on-line and off-line usage, high performance and security.”

    The company offers a Rich Internet Application platform for building and deploying Web-based applications that demand complex, highly interactive interfaces previously only possible as client-server applications. Using Curl, developers can implement a new class of complex, business-critical, Web-based applications that cannot easily be developed with Ajax or other smart client technologies. For more information visit www.curl.com.