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Category: Release notes

VisionX Previewer App 2.6.0 is available

Our VisionX Previewer App 2.6.0 is available.

It's not just an update release, it's a release with many new features!

An impression is available here.

The new app overview makes our previewer app a multi previewer app. Use one application to manage all your VisionX applications and switch between the apps.

A full changelog is available here

VisionX 5.9 is out

What a great day!

We're happy to announce VisionX 5.9. It's a really cool version.
The exact version number is 5.9.570.

The version comes with the latest release build of our react user interface and support for our latest mobile application. We recommend react UI but we still have our good old vaadin UI on board. Our vaadin UI is still a good decision and we also continue development. No worries. As we told you in VisionX 5.8 release notes, all new cool features will be available for react UI only. In latest react UI we also bundled our latest design mode feature.

We recommend the update to 5.9 of all previous versions because it's backwards compatible and you get lots of new features and all bugfixes which were reported of all VisionX users. If we release AddOn updates, we target the new VisionX version and it's not guaranteed that old VisionX versions will get the updates.

If you plan using mobile apps, also update to 5.9 because we'll release an update of our VisionX app in the next days. This app requires VisionX 5.9 or later.

An important difference to VisionX 5.8 is that you need a valid license to use our new reactUI. If you already own a license for HTML5 applications, everything is fine and if you have problems, simply send an E-Mail to our product support. Before 5.9 it was possible to use the experimental versions of reactUI without HTML5 license. Same license restriction applies to mobile applications.

What's new?

The main focus was on bugfixes, react UI and mobile.

  • Setting favicon for reactUI (fixed)
  • Popup menus with custom actions (fixed)
  • Full-text filter with only one column (fixed)
  • Storage editor default selection of current table (enhancement)
  • Support database updates (EDB, Oracle, Postgresql) (enhancement)
  • Java up to 19+ support (enhancement)
  • reactUI production ready (enhancement)
  • VisionX app ready (enhancement)

The next version of VisionX will be a feature release with focus on usability.

As usual, VisionX 5.9.570 is available in the download area for our customers.
Have fun!

VisionX EA 5.9.172 is available

VisionX 5.9.172 EarlyAccess version is available for all our customers.

The version contains our latest libraries and bugfixes. Especially react UI and flutter UI got some updates. Both UIs are included in VisionX 5.9.172.

The mobile Browser previewer app is now built with Flutter 3.7.3, the latest release. We're working on some great improvements.

In this EA version, it's possible to embedd a reactUI in an iframe with a link to a different host. It was possible to use iframes but only for the same host. Now it's possible to embedd e.g. an application which is deployed in VisionX cloud without any problems, in your homepage.

The only thing you have to do is, to add:

<init-param>
  <param-name>useInternSession</param-name>
  <param-value>true</param-value>
</init-param>

to the web.xml of your application, in the section of MobileServlet.

Our mobile apps, version 2.3.0, are already available in Google' PlayStore and iOS' App store.

An EA version is not intended for production use, but is perfect for development.

Have fun!

VisionX EA 5.9.121 is available

VisionX 5.9.121 EarlyAccess version is available for all our customers.

The version contains our latest libraries and bugfixes. Especially flutter UI and react UI got lots of updates. Both UIs are included in VisionX 5.9.121. Our new product react UI designer is also included and documentation is available on project site.

We'll release updates of our mobile apps as soon as possible. The new app comes with massive improvements, e.g. Slider Button, Modern login, Group configuration, ...

VisionX now supports pin-to-windows-taskbar.

An EA version is not intended for production use, but is perfect for development.

Have fun!

VisionX 5.8.224 is out

We're happy to announce that VisionX 5.8.224 is out. It's a small bugfix release.

We found some problems with react UI and our mobile integration. Known bugs were fixed and we recommend an update!

As usual, VisionX 5.8.224 is available in the download area for our customers.
Have fun!

VisionX 5.8 is out

What a great day!

We're happy to announce VisionX 5.8. It's a big update with bombastic features.
The exact version number is 5.8.180.

The version comes with the latest release build of our brand new react user interface and a brand new (native) mobile application. Our react UI is an additional UI and can be used as modern alternative to our good old vaadin UI, which is still part of VisionX. We'll continue our vaadin UI and keep it as long as possible, but cool features will be available for react UI. Our react UI looks modern and is easy to style with CSS. In VisionX, the live preview contains a new design mode. The design mode makes it possible to style the application live in the browser. It's an awesome feature, simply try it out!

The design mode is an experimental feature of VisionX 5.8.
We also build our react UI daily, automatically as pre-releases. This makes it easy for you, to update react UI in your VisionX or to build your custom react UI. As long as react UI is compatible with your VisionX version, you get the latest features without new VisionX release.

But not only the react UI is brand new, also our (native) mobile client is brand new. It's still based on flutter but got a complete redesign. The new app is super fast, and supports all layout features of VisionX. To be honest, it's awesome. And we have the same update strategy for the mobile app. As long as it is compatible with your VisionX installation, it can be updated independent of VisionX. VisionX 5.8 also contains a live preview for the mobile app, directly in your web browser. You won't need a real device for the preview, but it looks like the app on your mobile device! This is so cool.

What's new?

The version got some updates for the screen designer and we improved user experience. It also contains a lot of bug fixes. The main focus was on new react UI and new mobile application.

Some visual changes

  • Hidden menu group
    Simply move a work-screen to the hidden group and it will be invisible. There are also two new move buttons in the menu management. It's now possible to move a screen directly into another group.

    Hidden group

    Hidden group

  • Anchor positions
    It's now possible to show the exact position of an element. It's also possible to change the position manually.

    Element position

    Element position

  • Number of unused editors
    We show you the number of unused editors, if you have many of them.

    Unused editors

    Unused editors

Ready for some impressions?

UI Designer

Mobile preview

Application preview (experimental)

What's coming next?

  • Full dark mode support for mobile app
  • react UI designer improvements
  • New online help

    We will replace our good old online help with a react based online help. The new online help is available on github.

  • New elements



As usual, VisionX 5.8.180 is available in the download area for our customers.
Have fun!

VisionX 5.7 is out

We're so happy to announce VisionX 5.7.11. We worked hard to finish everything in-time and we did it!

It's a big update with many new features and a first face-lift. A detailed blog post will follow in the next days.

Here are some highlights:

  • Filter master/detail with detail fields

    It's now possible to search in a detail table and show all master records which contain found records.

  • EDB support

    If you want to use specific EDB features and not only standard PostgreSql DB, it's now possible.

  • Function/Procedure support for PostreSql DB

    Simply call a db function or procedure directly.

  • Hide screens

    The menu configuration now shows a special group for hidden screens. Simply move a screen to this group to hide a screen.

  • Next generation UI

    The next generation web UI is ready to use.

  • Additional doc and video buttons

    The window title got two new buttons...

  • Themes for standard web UI

    It's now possible to use different styles for the standard web UI, in the configuration screen.

  • Solution Store is now our Marketplace
  • Updated AddOns: Cloud, Profiles, Workflow, REST
  • ... many bugs fixed

Because of important updates of Cloud AddOn, old VisionX installations with old Cloud AddOn won't work without update to VisionX 5.7.11 and new Cloud AddOn. So, if you use Cloud AddOn, update to VisionX 5.7.11.

As usual, VisionX 5.7.11 is available in the download area for our customers.
Have fun!

JVx 2.8.5 - Statistics

JVx 2.8.5 is out and we have some Source Code statistics for you!

Our last statistics were determined for JVx 2.2. The source code grew by 50.012 lines, since 2.2. We now have 178.896 (JVx library, Swing UI, tests) compared to 128.884 in JVx 2.2. Still awesome if we compare the features of JVx with any other application framework!

Here are the actual numbers for you:

JVx library   Swing UI
LoC   Type
107.951   Code
86.032   Comments (~ 44% of Code)
28.282   Empty lines
222.265   Total
LoC   Type
41.544   Code
22.321   Comments (~ 35% of Code)
9.249   Empty lines
73.114   Total
 
JVx library (Test cases)  
LoC   Type
29.401   Code
14.620   Comments (~ 33% of Code)
9.649   Empty lines
53.670   Total

Some additional numbers:

Files and Tests
JVx library source files   825
Swing UI source files   148
Test source files   151
Total   1124
Still a small codebase ;) and still very easy to maintain. Here are more numbers, about testing:
 
Unit tests (no UI, without manual perf. tests)   1000
Class coverage (without UI)   73%
Method coverage (without UI)   62%
Our coverage is not as good as with 2.2 but still not bad.

TOP 10 classes

Classname   LoC
DBAccess 5.775
MemDataBook 4.712
JVxTable 2.704
ArrayUtil 2.613
DBStorage 2.237
StringUtil 2.230
Server 2.058
SimpleJavaSource 1.583
PostgreSQLDBAccess 1.495
DateUtil 1.468

This are interesting numbers because in JVx 2.2, MemDataBook was on 1st place. We now have more code for database support than before. The newcomers are SimpleJavaSource and PostgreSQLDBAccess.

We tried to reduce complexity of DBAccess and MemDataBook, but complex things are complex. This is why we develop JVx. It makes complex things, simple.

JVx 2.8.5 is available

We're happy to announce that JVx 2.8.5 is available. It's a bigger bugfix release and comes with many powerful new features.

What's new?

  • Loading MetaData performance tuning
  • REST

    It's now possible to register custom admin services and to disable general admin services. We also introduced a public zone.

  • E-Mail support

    Simply send an email with pre-configured server settings.

  • Dynamic cell editors

    Set the dynamic cell editor on one cell and use different cell editors in the same cell, based on a type configuration.

  • Simple Map implementation

    OpenStreetMap and Google

  • Accessible/Not Accessible per environment
  • putObject support for DataRow
  • Better logging API configuration
  • Many more...

The full changelog is available here.

Start with JVx

VisionX update release 5.6.4001 is available

A brand new update version of VisionX - 5.6.4001 - is available!
It's a bugfix release with some cool new features.

It contains the latest reactUI, a Map location component.

The next EarlyAccess version will contain support for Tomcat 10 deployment. Since javax.servlet API was renamed to jakarta.servlet API, it's not easily possible to install an application on newer application servers. We found a great solution which makes it possible to keep it super simple.

As usual - available in the download area ;-) or as trial!
Have fun!