Hermosa Beach, CA -- May 12, 1999 -- Gefion software today announced the release of InstantOnline Basic 2.1, it's servlet based component suite for dynamic website development.

InstantOnline Basic is a set of Java Servlet components for development of web applications. The 2.1 version adds an enhanced configurable database connection pool, conditional processing, more flexible data store functionality and more to the powerful set of components for database access, HTML presentation, file uploading and server-side file manipulation, dynamic web forms, sending email, input validation and user session data handling available in the previous version.

Developing an application with InstantOnline Basic requires no coding. It offers the same easy tag-based development model as proprietary server-side technologies such as Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) and Allaire's Cold Fusion but with the advantage of running on all major platforms, including the popular Apache on Linux combination. InstantOnline Basic comes bundled with the InstantDB Java database and the LiteWebServer Java web server, preconfigured with demo applications to make it easy to get started.

Dynamic features, such as searchable product catalogs, discussion forums, and customization are becoming more and more popular as a way to add value for web site visitors. Nationsbanc Montgomery Securities LLC, as reported by Inter@ctive Week on June 25, 1998, predicts that the market for tools like InstantOnline will grow 37% annually from $145 million in 1997 to $700 million in 2001.

Thousands of people have downloaded and used InstantOnline Basic to date. "InstantOnline packages all the servlets needed to fully manipulate our databases and makes it easy to display the data in HTML format. To sum up our experience: InstantOnline is easy to use, FAST, and provides great technical support," says Tom O'Brien at Golf Link Inc.

Pricing and Availability

InstantOnline Basic 2.1, is available now in three editions:

• InstantOnline Basic 2.1 Evaluation
  free of charge, for non-commercial, evaluation use,
• InstantOnline Basic 2.1
  $249.00, for up to 50 users,
• InstantOnline Basic 2.1 Pro
  $499.00, for unlimited number of users.

For more information please visit http://www.gefionsoftware.com/InstantOnline/.

About Gefion software

Gefion software is a privately held company located in Hermosa Beach, California, founded in 1997. Gefion software develops products that simplify development of network based, platform independent applications.

Gefion software also offers the LiteWebServer, a pure Java webserver with support for the Java Servlet API. Its extremely small size (less than 100 KB) makes it ideal for embedded systems, for bundling with web application demos sent to potential customers, and for running web applications distributed on CDs. It's also an easy to use web server for servlet development, personal use or a small intranet. Another product, WAICoolRunner 2.0, adds support for the latest version of the Servlet API to Netscape webservers.

For more information about Gefion software and its products, please visit http://www.gefionsoftware.com/.

Gefion software, InstantOnline, InstantOnline Basic, LiteWebServer and WAICoolRunner are trademarks or registered trademarks of Gefion software in the United States and other countries.

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