What's New in the “Spring 2010” Releases?
This page provides a brief overview over some of the more exciting new features
and enhancements in the “Spring 2010” releases, made available on February
25.
For a complete list of all changes and fixes, please check out our detailed Change
Logs.
As in the previous release cycles, we have continued to put a major focus on quality
and documentation. As you have probably noticed, the class reference in the wiki
is growing regularly, as we cover more and more areas of the libraries. The latest
snapshot of this is of course included in or static online help that ships with
the products, integrated into the Visual Studio, Delphi and Xcode IDEs. Our internal
QA and testing has also advanced tremendously, with 2500 tests running as part of
every build we do, and more being added every day.
We also have a range of exciting features shipping this quarter. To start with,
all the .NET products have been updated to officially support Visual Studio 2010.
This support is based on the currently available Release Candidate, but we expect
no breaking changes for the final release in April.
Our entire range of Data Abstract is now shipping with our new Relativity Server,
for all three editions, supporting the hosting of DA middle-tier services on Windows,
Linux and Mac OS X servers. Relativity Server has been streamlined a lot since we
shipped the Tech Preview last Winter, and believe it will be an important technology
for Data Abstract users, moving forward. Already, we have exciting new features
for it planned for the remainder of the year. You can read
more about Relativity here.
We have also extended the Data Abstract for .NET server infrastructure to make it
easy to expose data to non-DA clients using REST over regular HTTP. This
extends to your own servers, as well as services hosted in Relativity. Along with
our exiting JSON support, this makes it very easy to build web applications that
can access DA data, both from the web server as well as form AJAX code running in
the browser.
DA LINQ support has also been extended, now supporting LEFT OUTER JOINs and the
use on tables that require parameters.
For Mac OS X and iPhone developers, new project templates for Xcode have
been added, that will make it a lot easier to get started with new Data Abstract
or RemObjects SDK projects.
Data Abstract and RemObjects SDK for Delphi have been extended with integration
for additional third party libraries, including support for a TurboDB database
driver and FastReport reporting in DA, and new ICS-based communication
channels in RO.
Internet Pack for .NET has been expanded with native support for LDAP authentication,
a feature already used by Relativity, and that should be useful for developers implementing
authentication in their own RO or DA servers, as well.
Last but not least, we have shipped the first release of RemObjects Script for
.NET, our new JavaScript engine for the Dynamic Language Runtime. RemObjects
Script is available standalone as a free project with full source code, but it will
also play a strong role in the further development of Data Abstract for .NET over
the next half year. Read more about Script here.
Trial Downloads | Free Downloads for IP and
Script | Detailed Change Logs
Previous Releases
Check what was new in previous releases: Winter 2009.
