r5330 - trunk/www/news

[jcater]

Author: jcater
Date: 2004-03-16 10:25:04 -0600 (Tue, 16 Mar 2004)
New Revision: 5330

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+Title: New Releases of GNUe Tools (0.5.2)
+Author: address@hidden
+Date: 2003-10-22
+
+The GNU Enterprise team is proud to announce a new release of it's enterprise
+application development suite. This release includes:
+
+* GNUe Forms 0.5.2
+* GNUe Reports 0.1.3
+* GNUe Designer 0.5.2
+* GNUe Navigator 0.0.6
+* GNUe AppServer 0.0.5
+* GNUe Common 0.5.2
+
+
+GNUe-Forms is a platform and UI-independent forms system. It reads an XML-based
+forms definition and creates GUIs for Win32, GTK 2, and, soon, Curses (text), 
QT
+3.0, and HTML. It has a fully data-aware widget set and can be used in both
+2-tier and n-tier environments.
+
+
+GNUe-Reports is a platform and output-independent reporting system. It reads an
+XML-based report definition and generates arbitrary XML output that can further
+be translated into any format for which there is an adapter. GNUe Reports
+currently has outputs for Text, HTML, and CSV -- with PDF, Postscript, and
+Gnumeric/Excel formats in the works. Reports can output directly to a file, as
+an email attachment, to a printer, or to a HylaFax server. This version
+introduces native "Label" support.
+
+
+GNUe-Designer is the IDE for the GNUe tools. It allows you to visually layout
+your forms in a RAD-style environment. Designer has a builtin forms client, so
+you can quickly test your forms while still in Designer. Designer also has
+support for form creation wizards... answer a few questions, attach your form 
to
+one or more database tables, select the fields to include, and, voila, a basic
+form is created. Basic support for schema creation is also included.
+
+
+GNUe Navigator is a menuing system for GNUe Forms and Reports. It presents a
+consistent menuing interface (in GUI or Text) based on an XML "process
+definition." GNUe Navigator uses the GNUe Forms or GNUe Reports clients to run
+the actual forms and reports, so these corresponding tools must be installed.
+
+
+GNUe AppServer is the core of the n-tier variant of the GNU Enterprise system.
+To the front end (be it GNUe Forms, GNUe Reports or any other tool), it 
provides
+user-defineable business objects with arbitary fields and methods. While
+transforming access to those fields and methods into database communication and
+calling of scripts, it cares about stability, security, speed, and consistency.
+
+
+GNUe-Common is the basis for the GNUe tools, such as Forms, Reports, 
Application
+Server, and Designer. It implements a database-abstraction layer that provides
+support for most major databases. A builtin XML-to-Object parser and
+Object-to-XML marshaller are used by Forms, Reports, and Designer to save and
+read Forms/Report definitions to and from an XML file. It also defines and
+implements an RPC abstraction layer that will allow server processes to define
+their public methods once and have them available to CORBA, XML-RPC, SOAP, and
+DCOM clients.
+
+
+All of these releases are targeted at developers. The six products are 
available
+in source form from our website at
+
+
+  http://www.gnuenterprise.org/downloads/current.php
+
+
+We have also updated our all-in-one Windows installer for the GNUe tools that
+include all the basic dependencies -- you only have to download a single
+setup.exe! The Installers include support for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and ODBC. 
These
+installers are available at the same location referenced above.
+
+
+Debian packages for "unstable" have also been created. They are already part of
+the official Debian distribution.
+
+
+The tools have been tested and are known to run on:
+
+- GNU/Linux (RedHat 6.x/7.x/8.x, Debian 2.x/3.x/sid, Slackware 8.x, Gentoo)
+- Windows 95/98/2000/ME/XP/NT
+- MacOS X (via the available X interface)
+- Solaris 8/9
+- FreeBSD 4.x/5.x
+
+The tools require Python 2.0 or better to run (Python 2.2+ recommended.) GNUe
+Designer requires wxPython 2.4 or better to run.
+
+Changes to GNUe-Forms 0.5.2:
+
+* Switched to gnue-common enhanced setup
+* Scrollbar Widget
+* Misc Enhancements / Bug Fixes
+
+Changes to GNUe-Designer 0.5.2:
+
+* Switched to gnue-common enhanced setup system
+* Internal restructuring
+* Numerous Bug Fixes
+
+Changes to GNUe-Reports 0.1.3:
+
+* Switched to gnue-common enhanced setup system
+* Various bugfixes
+
+Changes to GNUe-Navigator 0.0.6:
+
+* Switched to gnue-common enhanced setup system
+* Minor bug fixes
+
+Changes to GNUe-AppServer 0.0.5:
+
+* Switched to gnue-common enhanced setup system
+* Using unicode/utf-8 as internal encoding
+* Add a ECMAscript-based forms client (webfrontend)
+* Add support for date, time and boolean types
+* Improved data type checking and introspection
+* Extended and improved samples and base data
+* Better support for common/rpc changes (pyro support)
+* Add function to export class definitions into a .gsd file (not user visible
+  yet)
+* Miscellaneous bug fixes
+
+Changes to GNUe-Common 0.5.2:
+* New enhanced setup system
+* MS ADO dbdriver (with introspection)
+* Enhanced RPC drivers, PYRO rpv driver added
+* Unicode support
+* Misc bug fixes

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--- trunk/www/news/10137        2004-03-16 14:54:04 UTC (rev 5329)
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+Title: New Releases of GNUe Tools (0.5.2)
+Author: address@hidden
+Date: 2003-10-22
+
+The GNU Enterprise team is proud to announce a new release of it's enterprise
+application development suite. This release includes:
+
+* GNUe Forms 0.5.3
+* GNUe Reports 0.1.4
+* GNUe Designer 0.5.3
+* GNUe AppServer 0.0.6
+* GNUe Common 0.5.3
+
+
+GNUe-Forms is a platform and UI-independent forms system. It reads an XML-based
+forms definition and creates GUIs for Win32, GTK 2, and, soon, Curses (text), 
QT
+3.0, and HTML. It has a fully data-aware widget set and can be used in both
+2-tier and n-tier environments.
+
+
+GNUe-Reports is a platform and output-independent reporting system. It reads an
+XML-based report definition and generates arbitrary XML output that can further
+be translated into any format for which there is an adapter. GNUe Reports
+currently has outputs for Text, HTML, and CSV -- with PDF, Postscript, and
+Gnumeric/Excel formats in the works. Reports can output directly to a file, as
+an email attachment, to a printer, or to a HylaFax server. This version
+introduces native "Label" support.
+
+
+GNUe-Designer is the IDE for the GNUe tools. It allows you to visually layout
+your forms in a RAD-style environment. Designer has a builtin forms client, so
+you can quickly test your forms while still in Designer. Designer also has
+support for form creation wizards... answer a few questions, attach your form 
to
+one or more database tables, select the fields to include, and, voila, a basic
+form is created. Basic support for schema creation is also included.
+
+
+GNUe AppServer is the core of the n-tier variant of the GNU Enterprise system.
+To the front end (be it GNUe Forms, GNUe Reports or any other tool), it 
provides
+user-defineable business objects with arbitary fields and methods. While
+transforming access to those fields and methods into database communication and
+calling of scripts, it cares about stability, security, speed, and consistency.
+
+
+GNUe-Common is the basis for the GNUe tools, such as Forms, Reports, 
Application
+Server, and Designer. It implements a database-abstraction layer that provides
+support for most major databases. A builtin XML-to-Object parser and
+Object-to-XML marshaller are used by Forms, Reports, and Designer to save and
+read Forms/Report definitions to and from an XML file. It also defines and
+implements an RPC abstraction layer that will allow server processes to define
+their public methods once and have them available to CORBA, XML-RPC, SOAP, and
+DCOM clients.
+
+
+All of these releases are targeted at developers. The products are available in
+source form from our website at
+
+
+  http://www.gnuenterprise.org/downloads/current.php
+
+
+Debian packages for "unstable" have also been created. They are already part of
+the official Debian distribution.
+
+
+The tools have been tested and are known to run on:
+
+- GNU/Linux (RedHat 6.x/7.x/8.x, Debian 2.x/3.x/sid, Slackware 8.x, Gentoo)
+- Windows 95/98/2000/ME/XP/NT
+- MacOS X (via the available X interface)
+- Solaris 8/9
+- FreeBSD 4.x/5.x
+
+The tools require Python 2.0 or better to run (Python 2.2+ recommended.) GNUe
+Designer requires wxPython 2.4 or better to run.
+
+New features in GNUe-AppServer 0.0.6:
+
+* Support for server-side procedures
+* Much improved Python language interface
+* Server-side data cache
+* New program gnue-gsdgen to create .gsd files from the class repository
+* More sample forms
+* Miscellaneous bug fixes
+
+New features in GNUe-Common 0.5.3:
+
+* New database driver for cvs files (read only)
+* Improved code (trigger/procedures) interface
+* Restructured datasource interface
+* Much improved gnue-schema program
+* New gnue-import program to merge data from .gsd files into a running database
+* Misc bug fixes
+
+New features in GNUe-Designer 0.5.3:
+
+* Support for gnue-common's new datasources API
+* Misc Enhancements / Bug Fixes
+
+New features in GNUe-Forms 0.5.3:
+
+* Support for gnue-common's new datasources API
+* Misc Enhancements / Bug Fixes
+
+New features in GNUe-Reports 0.1.4:
+
+* Support for gnue-common's new datasources API
+* Misc Enhancements / Bug Fixes
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