[Gnue-announce] New Releases: Designer, Forms, and Common v0.1.1

[Jason Cater]

The GNU Enterprise team is proud to announce the release of
GNUe-Forms 0.1.1, GNUe-Designer 0.1.1, and GNUe-Common 0.1.1.
The 0.1.1 series of releases are primarily maintenance releases.


GNUe-Forms is a platform and UI-independent forms system. It
reads an XML-based forms definition and creates GUIs for Win32,
GTK, and, soon, Curses and 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 now has support for
form creation wizards... answer a few questions, attach your
form to a table, 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, 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. Work has begun on 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 three
products are available in source form from our website at
http://www.gnue.org/

We also have Windows installers that include all the basic
dependencies -- you only have to download a single setup.exe!
The Installers include support for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and ODBC.


GNUe-Forms 0.1.1, Designer 0.1.1, and Common 0.1.1 have
been tested and are known to run on:

o GNU/Linux (RedHat 6.x/7.x, Debian 2.x, Slackware 8.0, ...)
o Windows 95/98/2000/XP/NT
o Solaris 8.0
o FreeBSD 4.x


Changes to GNUe-Designer 0.1.1:
o Added a Data Source Editor with table introspection support
  and drag-and-drop field creation.
o Added a code editor based on Scintilla complete with Syntax-
  Highlighting (which is disabled by default)
o Cleanup of Tool frames (Object Navigator is now in a separate frame)
o Addition of "Open Recent..." support (Most-Recently-Used support)
o Start of a Developer's Guide to introduce GNUe Forms concepts
o Many bug fixes and performance enhancements


Changes to GNUe-Forms 0.1.1:
o Logs of bug fixes


Changes to GNUe-Common 0.1.1:
o Database driver performance enhancements
o Misc bug fixes and enhancements


In other news, GNUe-Reports is coming along nicely in CVS.
Expect to see a release "Real Soon."  A new tool, GNUe
Navigator, has been added to the CVS tree. This provides a
top-level menuing interface for GNUe client tools. Expect
to see a release of GNUe Navigator by the next series of
releases.