3rd December 2002
The GNU Enterprise team is proud to announce a new release of it's enterprise application development suite. This release includes:
This is the next point release of the 0.4.x stable branch.
GNUe-Forms is a platform and UI-independent forms system. It reads an XML-based forms definition and creates GUIs for Win32, GTK, Curses (text) and, soon, HTML. It has a fully data-aware widget set and can be used in both 2-tier and n-tier environments.
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.
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. They are available in source form from our website at http://www.gnuenterprise.org/downloads/current.php.
The tools have been tested and are known to run on:
The main aims of this point release are to do some final tidying-up before the big push for the 0.5.0 releases. This includes bringing into the main code base many of the useful changes that our friends at Via Libre working on Project Papo have written.
Note that, at the moment, this release is available in source code form only (*.tar.gz and *.zip). We will look at getting Microsoft Windows .exe and Debian GNU/Linux package versions over the next few weeks, although given the progress that 0.5.0 is making in CVS, this may overtake it... So our current recommendations would be:
CVS HEAD (what will be 0.5.0) is currently not recommended, even for testing purposes, as there is still some breakage/refactoring to resolve, but it should be back into a state where willing testers can usefully use it soon.
The changes since 0.4.1 include:
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