13th 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-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 fix minor bugs with MySQL, the new PostgreSQL 7.3, and some API omissions from 0.4.2.
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...
The changes since 0.4.2 include:
Forms
Common
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