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Author: jamest
Date: 2004-04-12 19:26:11 -0500 (Mon, 12 Apr 2004)
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+Title: New Releases of GNUe Tools
+Author: address@hidden
+Date: 2004-04-12
+
+The GNU Enterprise team is proud to announce a new release of it's enterprise
+application development suite. This release includes:
+
+* GNUe Forms 0.5.4
+* GNUe Reports 0.1.5
+* GNUe Designer 0.5.4
+* GNUe AppServer 0.0.7
+* GNUe Navigator 0.0.7
+* GNUe Common 0.5.4
+
+
+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  0.0.7:
+* Database generation script for firebird/interbase
+* Complete Unicode awareness
+* New system property gnue_property.gnue_nullable
+* New option --database for gnue-gsdgen
+* Support for parameters and return values in procedures
+* Own translation files, separated from common
+* Updated translations
+* Lots of code cleanup
+* Lots of bug fixes
+
+
+New features in GNUe-Common 0.5.4:
+* Fixed MySQL driver
+* Improved client-side handling of server-side exceptions in RPC library
+* Fixed master/detail inserts in AppServer driver
+* Parameters and return values for triggers/procedures
+* Table extension support in gnue-schema
+* New flexible plugin loader
+* Fixed Date and Datetime masks
+* Separate translation files for each tool
+* Added and updated translations
+* Lots of code cleanup
+* Lots of bug fixes
+
+
+New features in GNUe-Designer 0.5.4: 
+* Fixed invalid loading of wizards that aren't available
+* Separate translation files for each tool
+* Added and updated translations
+* Lots of code cleanup
+* Lots of bug fixes
+
+
+New features in GNUe-Forms 0.5.4: 
+* Separate translation files for each tool
+* Added and updated translations
+* Misc feature enhancements
+* Misc bug fixes
+
+
+New features in GNUe-Reports 0.1.5: 
+* Made width optional on the tabulator's column heading
+* Improved Unicode awareness
+* Separate translation files for each tool
+* Updated translations
+* Minor bug fixes
+
+
+New features in GNUe-Navigator 0.0.7:
+* Added embeddable form support
+* Improved Unicode awareness
+* Separate translation files for each tool
+* Updated translations
+* Minor bug fixes