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[reinhard]

Author: reinhard
Date: 2004-06-15 04:24:15 -0500 (Tue, 15 Jun 2004)
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News about new releases.


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+Title: New Releases of GNUe Tools
+Author: address@hidden
+Date: 2004-06-15
+
+The GNU Enterprise team is proud to announce a new release of it's enterprise
+application development suite. This release includes:
+
+* GNUe AppServer 0.0.8
+* GNUe Forms 0.5.5
+* GNUe Common 0.5.5
+
+
+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-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-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" will been created and incorporated into the
+official 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 2.3+ recommended.)
+
+
+New features/changes in GNUe-AppServer 0.0.8:
+
+* Indirect properties
+* Calculated properties
+* Triggers (procedures that are fired automatically upon certain events)
+* Defined return values for procedures
+* Reference fields are now checked for integrity
+* All operations are now atomic
+* Inserts and deletes are now passed to the database in the correct order
+* Much improved exception handling
+* Parser for newly created GCD (GNUe Class Definition) files
+
+
+New features/changes in GNUe-Forms 0.5.5:
+
+* Possibility to set the title of the form
+* Support for auto-fitting images in the <image> tag
+* Listbox widget
+* Tree widget
+* Many new properties in trigger namespace
+* Updated documentation
+
+
+New features/changes in GNUe-Common 0.5.5:
+
+* Changed AppServer's dbdriver to match AppServer's new features
+* Fixed prefix format for conditions
+* Fixed RPM generation with setup system
+* Lots of other bug fixes