New Releases of GNUe Tools (0.5.2)
22 October 2003
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:
o Switched to gnue-common enhanced setup
o Scrollbar Widget
o Misc Enhancements / Bug Fixes
Changes to GNUe-Designer 0.5.2:
o Switched to gnue-common enhanced setup system
o Internal restructuring
o Numerous Bug Fixes
Changes to GNUe-Reports 0.1.3:
o Switched to gnue-common enhanced setup system
o Various bugfixes
Changes to GNUe-Navigator 0.0.6:
o Switched to gnue-common enhanced setup system
o Minor bug fixes
Changes to GNUe-AppServer 0.0.5:
o Switched to gnue-common enhanced setup system
o Using unicode/utf-8 as internal encoding
o Add a ECMAscript-based forms client (webfrontend)
o Add support for date, time and boolean types
o Improved data type checking and introspection
o Extended and improved samples and base data
o Better support for common/rpc changes (pyro support)
o Add function to export class definitions into a .gsd file (not user visible
yet)
o Miscellaneous bug fixes
Changes to GNUe-Common 0.5.2:
o New enhanced setup system
o MS ADO dbdriver (with introspection)
o Enhanced RPC drivers, PYRO rpv driver added
o Unicode support
o Misc bug fixes
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