New Releases of GNUe Tools

Jul 23, 2004
reinhard@gnue.org

The GNU Enterprise team is proud to announce a new release of it's enterprise application development suite. This release includes:

  • GNUe AppServer 0.0.9
  • GNUe Common 0.5.6

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.

The products are available in source form from our website at

http://www.gnuenterprise.org/downloads/current.php

Debian packages for "unstable" will been created and incorporated into the official 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, 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 2.1 or better to run (Python 2.3+ recommended.)

New features/changes in version 0.0.9:

  • gnue-gsdgen can now export arbitary data
  • gnue-gcd2sql can now directly act on a database connection
  • gnue-gcd2sql can now update existing schemas

New features/changes in version 0.5.6:

  • gnue-schema can now directly act on a database connection
  • gnue-schema can now update existing schemas
  • New schema creation functions in dbdrivers
  • SQLite dbdriver working again
  • New barcode printing library

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