We're happy to anounce that VisionX 5.1.221 is available!

It's a bigger update release of VisionX 5.1.8 with with some new "visible" features and many awesome new features under the hood.

Let's start with important bug fixes

• Popup Menu in Browser application

  A custom Popup Menu in Browser applications was always empty. This problem was fixed in an OpenSource library and is now available in VisionX applications.

• Timeout with customizer changes

  If VisionX timeout while a customizer with changed values was open, the timeout operation failed and VisionX was unusable.

• Element selection not always working

  Sometimes it wasn't possible to select elements if they where behind other elements.

• Database procedure and function calls with more than 10 parameters

  It's now supported to call database procedures and functions with max. 100 parameters.

• External CSS file detection

  VisionX had some path problems with Linux and MacOS to find the external CSS file for browser applications.

• Fixed painting of overlays (MacOS)

  The position of e.g. VisionX Guides wasn't correct. The small numbers were wrong positioned.

• Workflow integration

  The workflow engine wasn't always started correctly and not in the correct window.

• All bugfixes of JVx, VaadinUI and other OpenSource libraries

What's new?

• A new Workflow AddOn
• Swagger documentation

  The documentation now contains information about sub storages (used in drop down boxes) and default admin services. It's now easier to grant access to external applications based on the REST API of your application.

• Java 9+

  It's now possible to use e.g. Java 11 as runtime for VisionX.

• Storage editor for Developers

  Out storage Editor was only available if you bought the Forms license. Now all users with Development license will be able to use the Storage Editor. The storage editor is a feature which allows you to change the database query of a table, directly in VisionX.

• Prompt/Placeholder support
• Better layouting in browser application

  We improved the layouting in our browser applications and also improved scrolling of panels.

• Experimental (Early Access) Features

  We added some experimental features in this release: QR code authentication, Spnego (Active Directory) authentication base support (needs an additional AddOn), SSO authentication feature for REST services (bypass option).

  This features are available for interested developers. Simply talk to your contact person.

The download area already contains links to latest VisionX binaries.

Please report any problems as usual and have fun with VisionX.

We're happy to announce that JVx 2.8 is available. It's a big release with lots of important bug fixes and some awesome new features. The last release of JVx was in January. It was version 2.7 which was more or less a small bugfix release with few new features. We took more time for JVx 2.8 to make it awesome.

What's new?

• Placeholder/Prompt support

  This feature is available for input fields and cell editors. Simply enable this feature:

  editor.setPlaceholderVisible(true);
  editor.setPlaceholder("PLACEHOLDER");

  to get
  

  

  Prompt support

• New popup menu button

  This new button reduces the visible components. It's a must have for modern applications:

  

  Menu button

• Savepoints for transaction handling in PostgreSql
• Components have a unique name

  This is an important feature fore UI tests and our headless UI as well. It's now possible to address components in vaadin UI by their id to apply custom css.

• Configurable REST services
• Mac OS UI improvements

The full changelog is available here.

Start with JVx

We're happy to anounce that VisionX 5.1.8 is available!

It's a simple update release of VisionX 5 with smaller bugfixes and one awesome new feature.

The bugs fixed

• Support for STARTS_WITH and CONTAINS Filter conditions

  We didn't save this conditions correctly.

• Keyboard Navigation in HTML5 UI

  It wasn't possible to use arrow keys for navigation in HTML5 tables.

• Floating License

  We had some problems with floating license check with 1 user and the HTML5 live preview.

The new feature

• Swagger UI support

  We now create Swagger documentation for application' REST services. It's possible to test your REST services with your browser - super easy.

The download area already contains links to VisionX 5.1 binaries.

VisionX 5 is available It's an awesome version with so many new features and new possibilities. We had some hard months but now it's done and it's available for everyone. We made the decision to wait a little bit longer with VisionX 5 because of changes in used frameworks.

The new Version is more web centric than any version before, but it's not a web tool. VisionX 5 still supports Desktop application creation.

So what's new?

• Default Stylesheet

  All new applications will contain an empty application.css. This file could be used to add custom HTLM5 application styles.

• New CSS Editor (Web settings)

  The new CSS editor makes it possible to change the style of the application directly within VisionX. The Editor supports Search/Replace/Goto line. It's also supported to reload the application in the browser. Simply test your style changes immediately.

  

  CSS Editor

  It supports syntax highlighting and auto completion. Read more...

• New default Theme for HTML5

  Newly created applications will use the new default theme "valo" as standard theme. It's possible to change the theme in web settings wizard.

• Additional Themes

  VisionX 5 is shipped with following themes: Standard, Valo, Valo (small), Mobile

• Navigation

  The page navigation is now enabled by default. It support Back/Forward Browser navigation for the application.

• New Tabset navigation

  It's also possible to enable tabset navigation. This feature enables Back/Forward navigation for tab sheets. This feature is disabled by default. It can be found in the web settings.

• Favicon

  It wasn't easy to change the favicon for your application because it is stored in different locations. VisionX 5 solves this problem because it's possible to change the favicon directly in VisionX.

  

  Favicon support

  It's also possible to use the favicon as icon for desktop applications. VisionX will extract the image directly from the favicon.

• New GUI element: Menu Button

  The Menu Button is a simple button which shows a popup menu if you click the button. The component itself also supports a default action, but this is a new feature of JVx' UIPopupMenuButton. The component is available in the elements area.

  

  Menu Button

• New Web Elements

  The web elements is a new element area. The elements are preconfigured components like an Insert Button. This Button simply inserts a new record in a table. This web elements will work for desktop applications as well, but are often used in web applications.

  

  Web Elements

• New web element: Table Menu Button

  The Table Menu Button is a Menu Button with preconfigured menu items like Delete, Export. It's also possible to add custom menu items via menu customizer.

  

  Table Menu Button Items

• Menubar Image

  It's now possible to configure the web menus independent of the desktop menu. Every screen has a menu icon and a toolbar icon. The menu icon will be used for the menubar and the toolbar icon for the toolbar in Desktop applications.

  The HTML5 application has different layout modes. The standard, the corporation and the legacy mode. The standard mode shows the menu in a sidebar on the left or right of the browser frame. This sidebar was used as toolbar in versions before VisionX 5. If you did configure a toolbar image, the screen was shown as image in the toolbar of your Desktop application and in the sidebar of your HTML5 application. It wasn't possible to configure an image, only, for the HTML5 sidebar. This feature is now available in the menu settings wizard.

  

  Web Menubar

  The toolbar image will be used for the toolbar in the corporation mode, as usual.

• New Edit Panel Customizer

  The Edit Panel now supports a Navigation mode: Single click, Double click and No navigation.

  

  Customizer

  It's also possible to morp an Edit Panel into a Tabset, a simple Panel or a Group Panel.

• All/No columns

  It's now possible to show/hide all columns of a table via customizer. It wasn't nice to click through e.g. 50 columns. Now it's easy to show only 2 columns of e.g. 50 columns.

  

  Show/Hide all

• Default image mapping for HTML5

  It was possible to map desktop images for e.g. HTML5. It's better to use simple/flat images in web applications compared to desktop applications. The web style should be or is different to standard desktops.

  With VisionX 5, we did the default mapping for you and a standard web application will show different standard images.

  

  Image mapping

  Same application, no changes necessary. Only some image mappings!

• FontAwesome support

  JVx has FontAwesome support for a while, but this feature wasn't integrated in VisionX. The new image chooser supports FontAwesome.

  

  FontAwesome

• Custom image libraries

  It's now supported to extend VisionX with custom image libraries. We have different commercial AddOns in our Solution store.

  

  Image library AddOns

The libraries will extend the image chooser.



Extended Image chooser

It's also possible to integrate your own offline image libraries.

• New tutorials

  We have new tutorials and new Tutorial Applications in our Store.

• New Edit Panel features

  The integrated edit panel has new features like Tab Navigation by Buttons. The edit dialog now has OK and Cancel. It supports single our double click navigation.

• Server actions and DB functions

  Our action editor now supports (Oracle) database function calls and server-side function calls.

  

  Server Actions

• Better Action Code Editor

  The source code editor now supports syntax highlighting and code folding.

  

  Action Code Editor

• New Button options

  It's now possible to change the button border behaviour.

  

  Button options

• New Search Options

  The search field now supports Contains and Starts with.

  

  Search options

• Better HTML5 default styling

  We improved the Split Panels and fixed some problems with focus.

  

  HTML5 Styling

  The split handle is now small.

• Vaadin 8

  Our HTML5 GUI is now based on Vaadin 8.1 instead of Vaadin 7. With Vaadin 8, the UI is faster and supports all modern AddOns from the Vaadin Directory.

  We offer a Vaadin AddOn for VisionX to integrate AddOns from the directory.

• New HTML5 layouting mechanism

  We rewrote the layout mechanism of our HTML5 UI because our Form Layout didn't support all available features. Now it's possible to overlap elements or to work with Anchors directly. The new layout mechanism can be disabled if necessary. In this case, the old mechanism will be used.

• Documentation

  The online documentation is now available.

  

  Documentation

• Library updates

  JVx changes, VaadinUI changes

VisionX 5 still contains Applet and Webstart support, but with VisionX 6 we will remove Applet support because the technology is EOL.

The new Version of VisionX will require a new license. Simply ask your sales contact to get a new one. The download area already contains links to VisionX 5 binaries.

Please report any problems as usual and have fun with VisionX 5.

We're happy to announce the release of EPlug 1.2.7. This minor update comes with a big performance improvement!

Major performance improvement

The most notable and important feature of this release is the major speed improvement when checking files. We've revisited how the build pipeline works and could determine quite a few bottlenecks which did not only encumber the build process, but also the live checks of databooks. After fixing these bottlenecks the databook live checks are blazing fast and one does not notice any more that these are active.

While reviewing the code, we also saw the possibility for a few more tweaks which we will incorporate into the next major release, to squeeze even more performance out of this.

Improved DataBook View

The DataBook view has also received some much needed attention. There is now a toolbar button which allows to sort the columns by their name (instead of their order as returned by the datasource). Additionally the view does no longer flicker when refreshing and will also clear itself when the last editor closes.

Other fixes

1. There is no longer a sleeping EPlug job in the Progress View.
2. The EPlug preferences are now only available on Java projects.
3. If there is no screen lifecycle object, the session object is now used.
4. Removed raw HTML in tooltips.

How to get it?

Simply update EPlug via Eclipse!

We're happy to announce that JVx 2.7 is available. It's a bigger bugfix release with a small number of new features.

What's new?

• Tibero Database Support
• boolean support

  Our DBAccess implementation now supports boolean as parameter.

• SimpleJavaSource

  It's now possible to create java objects from java source code, see our REST interface

• Struct support

  Struct support for Oracle DB in procedures and functions.

• Session timeouts

  We fixed the problem of session timeouts with long up/downloads.

• WorkScreen

  It's now possible to open a work-screen with additional parameters. A new (optional) Parameter class is available.

• Mac OS

  We fixed the problems with internal frame borders.

• Many improvements

The full changelog is available here.

Start with JVx

We're happy to announce VisionX 2.4 Update Release 2. It's another milestone for us.

The new version is a bugfix release with some important features for all our customers. The top bug was a missing license check for our HTML5 implementation. With older versions it was possible to use our HTML5 application without valid license. This wasn't a hidden feature, it was a real bug. The new version has a clean license check and some of you will need a new license. This is no problem, simply contact us.

What's new?

• Full-Screen mode

  Press F12 to maximize VisionX without frame border.

• HTML5 Live preview options

  It supports "application per session", custom UI factory, custom Application setups, main, config and externalCss URL parameter.

• VisionX is now http session ready

  It will be possible to use VisionX on server-side as backend for remote application development.

• Fixed Copy/Paste for DnD fields

  It's now possible to Copy/Paste into field with DnD support.

• Automatic UI tests

  VisionX now supports automatic UI tests with an optional AddOn. The mechanism isn't limited to our AddOn. It's also possible to create custom Modules/AddOns.

• Tibero Database support

  VisionX has built-in support for Tibero Database (tested with version 6).

• Auto-restart feature

  VisionX got a Preloader. This allows custom libraries without manually changing the classpath. The old classpath mechanism is still available, but we use the Preloader by default.

• Action Editor with custom editor support

  It's now possible to add custom editors in the action editor via action.xml and/or a custom module.

• GridLayout support

  It's now possible to use panels with GridLayout, if set in Source Code.

• Custom vaadin widgetsets and themes

  It's now possible to create custom vaadin widgetsets, e.g. add an AddOn from the Vaadin Directory. It's super easy to create a custom theme and setting your custom css attributes.

• Performance improvement

  We reduced the fetch calls during screen creation. This will improve performance with big tables and complex views.

• New modules, AddOns and demo applications (optional)

  The VaadinAddon can be used to create a custom widgetset or theme. The AppTeste is an automatic UI test tool. There is a new demo application for testing Validators. The new reporting demo application will show all features of our reporting engine.

• Configurable EPlug ports

  It's now possible to configure the EPlug communication ports via system properties.

• Better Application signing

  Our signing mechanism now supports TSA Urls, Proxies, signing algorithms and much more.

• Service module merging

  Newly created applications will automatically merge service modules. This is an important bugfix for e.g. the profiles module.

The new version is available in your download area or as Trial version.

VisionX 2.4 update release I is out. The exact version number is 2.4.544.310.
It's a powerful update release becasue it contains latest versions of relevant opensource libraries and frameworks.

What's new?

• Thumbnails

  If application contains a thumbnail, VisionX won't add a random thumbnail anymore.

• HTML5 Theme

  It's now possible to change the HTML5 theme via web settings: Standard, Valo, Mobile

  

  Web settings

• Live preview

  Live preview does now work if you apply external changes or if you change the source code in Eclipse (with installed EPlug).

• GridLayout is now supported

  The GridLayout of JVx is now officially supported in VisionX' Designer.

• Vaadin 7.7.9

  VisionX updates contains Vaadin 7.7.9.

• Solution store update

  The solution store now shows available solutions based on your VisionX version.

• New demo solutions

  We have awesome new demo applications for licensed users.

  

  Demo applications

• New Reporting demo

  The reporting demo is a complete documentation about VisionX reporting features and the reporting API.

  

  Reporting

  

  Report overview

• Smaller bugfixes

All customers will find the new version in their download area!
The trial version was updated as well!

Our Open Source PDF converter (toPDF) server is available in version 1.3

It contains some smaller bugfixes and very useful new features.

What's new?

• BCL easyPDF SDK 8.0 support

  Convert via native Java API or COM interface. We've introduced EasyPdfNativeOperator which is now the default operator for PDF conversion.

• Bookmark option

  This option creates bookmarks in your PDF document for headlines/sections in Word. Simply set the X-BOOKMARKS header parameter or use the REST API.

• Additional attributes

  Set additional attributes for the conversion to PDF via Request parameters or REST API.

Get the current version from the project site

We're happy to announce the release of EPlug 1.2.6. Again this small version bump does not only yield important bug fixes, but also new features which will make your life a lot easier.

Fixes

This release includes bug fixes along with new features. One of the most notable problems fixed was that compile time checks might not be run if the communication with VisionX was active.

Cleaner context menu with more actions

We have restructured our approach to the context menu entries and introduced a new menu item which holds all EPlug related actions:

As you can see we've also added new actions to jump to the configuration files.

Resources outside of source folders

We do support autocompletion and compile time checks for resources, like images. But we only supported resources inside of source folders, with this version we do now also support resources anywhere in the project.

Improved DataBook handling

DataBook handling has been improved once more. There are now additional checks which make sure that a RemoteDataBook receives the correct DataSource and there for if the MetaData can reliably be determined.

Additionally, the type of flag issued if no MetaData could be determined is now a configurable build option on the project.

An example:

This would have been flagged as warning, because no MetaData could be determined for pDataBook. Now the check determines that determining MetaData for this DataBook is impossible and flags it accordingly. You can configure whether you want to see this flag or not in the project settings.

EPlug does also recognize if a "foreign" datasource has been set:

Usernames for sessions

Last but not least, there is now a project setting which allows to set the username which is used by EPlug for the session it creates.

A little background, to acquire the MetaData (and some other information about the application) EPlug creates a session of the application and executes the server side code. It could be that projects do have checks and manipulations on the username somewhere in their code on the server. Previously EPlug would set null as username, but now it does either use the configured autologin username or the username configured in the project settings. That allows server side code which does operate on the username of the session to run without a problem, which means that there are no checks necessary if the session was initialized by EPlug or not.

How to get it?

Simply update EPlug via Eclipse!