The next great feature of JVx is the customizable focus order.

The focus order defines the navigation between components via Tabulator or Enter. If you press Tab in an Editor with index 1, the focus will jump to the component (e.g. an Editor) with the next higher index. If you didn't define an index, the default focus order of Java will be used.

We introduced

in IComponent. This makes it possible to easily configure the focus order. We also have support for this new feature in VisionX. It's really helpful:

Set focus order

The designer shows the focus index and it's possible to set the index via customizer.

All our applications have a menu and a toolbar. This is great for backend applications but not always good for web frontends. Our web UIs have a different menubar, styled for web, but it's always visible. If you have simple web forms, you won't use a menu. We did some changes and have new options for applications without menu and toolbar

Some impressions with standard (backend) Desktop application and as (frontend) web application:

Backend application

Frontend application

It's very simple to hide the menu. Simply set an application property via application.xml or directly via launcher - that's it. We changed our web menu and allow access to internal panels and components. It will be possible to hide buttons, change layouts, etc.

It's still possible to create your own, custom, application frame or extend our pre-defined frame. The new feature will be available in the next VisionX update.

We have another useful VisionX feature for you in the queue. It's the support for popup menus. It'll be possible to create and use popup menus for UI components. We had to change JVx to support this feature. It's now easily possible to work with popups because UIComponent got a new method: setPopupMenu(IPopupMenu).

The feature will be easy to use for end-users because it's not rocket science and we re-used existing VisionX concepts. Here's a first screenshot:

Popup menu integration

Our custom Vaadin application frame isn't a MDI. It's "web SDI" . We didn't show popup windows aka internal frames with work-screen content. We did embedd the content directly into the web page. But we changed the default implementation a little bit because it makes sense to show popup windows for modal work-screens. Modal frames are important for database applications. Such frames could be used for showing record details, for creating new records, ...

So it makes sense that our application frame supports such specific work-screens. And the good news is that we've support for this.

It could look like following screenshot:

Modal frame

If you're an Oracle Forms user and think about a different technology for your applications, watch following screen cast. It shows how we use VisionX to migrate FMB (windows) to Java, in seconds. Simply watch 90 seconds and it's done

Another use-case is the integration of a Java screen, directly in your Oracle Forms application. See our solution in action:

The first video shows our record navigion similar to Oracle Forms and of course, we have a solution for Forms' Enter query mode.

Great news for all VisionX users!

The current update release 2.0.121 is available for download. Please check your download area.

The release is more than just an update release. It contains all currently available features. We wrote about some of them:

Repeating frames
IDE integration
QR Codes
Features for developers
Ready made solutions

It contains current JVx, ProjX libraries and source code.

If you miss some features after upgrading, please contact our product support because previous versions provided features without valid license. If the features are already licensed, no worries.

We have a product and feature overview for you.

We have a really cool new feature for you. It's comparable to repeating frames of Oracle Forms. It's more or less a free-form table. Every row is a panel with custom components and every row shows the same components but bound to our DataBook.

A short video will demonstrate how it works:

We use the name ComponentTable for the control. It'll be available in one of the next VisionX nightly builds but will be limited to our OracleForms license option.

Die Master Thesis von Stefan Fessler steht nun öffentlich zur Verfügung. Das Thema war

Design und Implementierung einer Multi-Touch optimierten iOS App für das JVx ERP Applikation Framework

Im Zuge seiner Arbeit wurde der iOS Client für JVx entwickelt. Das Projekt steht unter der Apache Lizenz 2.0 zur Verfügung.

Die Arbeit ist zugleich eine gute Dokumentation und erklärt Designentscheidungen sowie deren Umsetzung.

Die Master Thesis von Michael Hofer steht nun öffentlich zur Verfügung. Das Thema war

Design und Implementierung einer Multi-Touch optimierten Android Runtime Umgebung für JVx ERP Applikationen auf Smartphone Devices

Im Zuge seiner Arbeit wurde der JVx.Mobile Server und der Android Client für JVx entwickelt. Das Projekt steht unter der Apache Lizenz 2.0 zur Verfügung.

Die Arbeit ist zugleich eine gute Dokumentation für JVx.mobile und erklärt Designentscheidungen sowie deren Umsetzung.

We want to tell you some fantastic news from our RnD team: The next big step for VisionX will be an IDE integration feature.

Our team is working very hard to reach the goals. The result will be an Eclipse plugin that connects to VisionX and allows bidirectional communication. We won't embedd VisionX in Eclipse because it makes no sense for us, but we'll use the whole power of the IDE.

What will be supported?

• Event links (Eclipse)

  A click on an event action string will jump to the right method.

  databook.eventValuesChanged().addListener(this, "doValuesChanged");

  The click on doValuesChanged will jump to the method in the work-screen.

• Call links (Eclipse)

  A click on an action/object call will jump to the right method, in the right life-cycle object.

  getConnection().callAction("getLicenseInformation");

  The click on getLicenseInformation will jump to the method in the life-cycle object.

• DataBook links (Eclipse)

  A click on the name of a databook will jump to the storage definition, in the life-cycle object.

  RemoteDataBook rdb = new RemoteDataBook();
  rdb.setDataSource(dataSource);
  rdb.setName("users");
  rdb.open();

  The click on users will jump to the DBStorage definition, in the the life-cycle object.

• Auto completion (Eclipse)

  We'll offer auto completion for table columns, event methods, action/object calls, ...

  databook.getRowDefinition().getColumnDefinition("DESCRIPTION").getDataType().setCellEditor(VisionXUtil.MULTILINE_EDITOR);

  It'll be possible to get a list of all available columns, like DESCRIPTION.

• Column checks (Eclipse)

  We'll check if all column names are valid and will show compiler warnings/errors.

• Jump to Eclipse

  It'll be possible, with VisionX, to jump to the source code of e.g. actions, component definitions or databooks in Eclipse. We'll introduce some new Buttons in VisionX, for that feature.

  

  VisionX E-Plug

• Jump to VisionX

  It'll be possible, with Eclipse, to highlight selected GUI components directly in VisionX.

No worries, we have more features for you!

The IDE integration will be available as optional VisionX module.