Unify Newsletter September 2008

Team Developer 5.1 Service Pack 4 Now Available!

Service Pack 4 (SP4) for Team Developer 5.1 is now available. SP4 delivers many enhancements for the migration of existing TD applications. Areas of enhancement include the application GUI, MDI Windows and database routers.

Download Team Developer 5.1 SP4

In this issue:

Team Developer 5.1 Service Pack 4 Now Available!
Plan to Attend DevCon Today!
Team Developer 5.2 Highlights
SQLBase 11.5 Preview!
Sabertooth Application Migration
NXJ 12 Update
Unify Brazil Roadshow
Monthly Webinar Series

Unify Resources

Plan to Attend DevCon Today!

North American DevCon Sacramento, California
November 12-13, 2008

Your opportunity to see Unify's latest portfolio of development and database software is just around the corner. So, what are you waiting for? Register Online now to reserve your complimentary seat at the North America Developers Conference, November 12-13, 2008.

At the conference, you will get a chance to take a sneak peek at Q, featuring powerful end user queries, reporting, data management and scripting. And don't forget to check out the latest enhanced visual capabilities in Team Developer as well as hear direct from Unify about what’s beyond Team Developer 5.x.

Other notable sessions include:

Report Builder 5.2
Building Rich Internet Applications with NXJ
Deep Dive into DataServer

Unify has secured a cost-effective room block at the Riverfront Embassy Suites. To receive this great rate, rooms must be reserved by Oct. 21. Make Your reservation today using the group code UNY. For more conference details, visit the official North American DevCon 2008 website. Register today!

Unify European Developers Conferences 2008

Time is running fast - only 4 weeks to go and then it’s DevCon time again! It’s not too late to send in your registration, we have few spaces left. Register for one of the worldwide Unify Developer Conferences NOW!

Stockholm/Sweden, October 24, 2008

Munich/Germany, October 27-28/29, 2008

Team Developer 5.2 Highlights

Team Developer 5.2 is slated for release this fall. Come to one of our DevCons to see Team Developer 5.2 live and learn how to leverage its new feature set. Team Developer 5.2 has a powerful and easy-to-use new Grid control. You can now copy existing Table Window code to the Grid control and reuse existing code. The new cell types of the Grid allow for creating visually attractive and easy to use applications.

Use the new Rich Text control to create applications that accept formatted text input and RTF printing. The RTF data can be stored in a database BLOB-field, and Report Builder can print the RTF BLOB contents in a report. Team Developer 5.2 supports the new Windows Server 2008 operating system.

Team Developer 5.2 introduces powerful Web services security including support for the standardized WS-Security model. A number of new security options are available to the developer at application design time and for the application runtime. The Web Services wizard can retrieve password protected wsdl files. At application runtime, Team Developer 5.2 supports three security modes: One, HTTP Basic, simple username/password authentication. Two, HTTP Digest adds encryption to username/password authentication plus three, the full fledged WS-Security standard for comprehensive Web Services security.

See a live preview of Team Developer 5.2!

SQLBase 11.5 Preview

SQLBase 11.5 brings immediate power to users and database administrators. Multiprocessor support, smart Unicode and the new SQLBase Command Center are the new, powerful features of SQLBase 11.5. Multiprocessor support brings immediate performance increases on multi-core or multi-processor machines. Unicode helps organizations that deliver international software easily. Users not requiring Unicode are not affected by the Unicode additions.

The SQLBase Command Center brings easy to use power features to the database administrator including automated scheduled task execution. SQLBase 11.5 enhances security by allowing long passwords up to 36 characters.

SQLBase 11.5 is made for the latest Windows operating systems like Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.

More about SQLBase 11.5.

NXJ 12 Update

Start today and test NXJ 12 for your Rich Internet and SOA application development needs. See how you can quickly come up to speed with building powerful AJAX enabled RIA and SOA applications. You can download a free trial version of NXJ 12 and the Evaluation Guide.

High Performance: Speed up the development, deployment and testing of Rich Internet and SOA applications. The NXJ Control Center has been removed thereby speeding up the development and deployment process and enabling tighter integration with third party application servers.
GUI Enhancements: NXJ 12 brings enhanced Dojo support for excellent usability and application performance.
Enhanced Optional Reporting: Leverage powerful analytical reporting to create up-to-date business intelligence. Increase and fine tune reporting performance, higher usability and nationalization support.
Infrastructure Integration: NXJ 12 is based on Java 1.5 to provide easy integration with enterprise applications and enterprise application server infrastructure.

What's New in NXJ Developer 12

What's New in NXJ Enterprise 12 (BPM and Optional Reporting)

Sabertooth Application Migration

The ability to rapidly build and deploy business applications fast and cost-effectively is a must for Team Developer® customers. From the Web Services Consumer in Team Developer 5.1 to the .NET support in future releases, Team Developer meets the current and future needs of the vast majority of its users. Some organizations, however, are requiring standardization and consolidation of their IT systems, including moving applications to the Microsoft .NET platform.

Sabertooth is Unify’s offering to help those Team Developer customers whose organizations are required to standardize on Microsoft. Sabertooth migrates Team Developer applications to C# or VB.NET.

Why Application Migration Beats Porting:

The Answer: True .NET Code The two main options for transitioning to .NET are Migration and Porting. In the migration approach, the goal is to adapt the application into the .NET environment. This involves adopting as many .NET programming conventions and techniques as possible without compromising the compatibility of the application. And this allows .NET programmers to take over the maintenance of the converted code.

In porting, the structure and programming conventions of the original environment are kept and the conversion is limited primarily to syntax. In the porting approach, the application relies on a runtime environment that emulates the original programming environment. This makes it difficult to use standard .NET data types, components and techniques after porting.