VisionX 1.2 will be VisionX 2.0 because it's more than just a minor update. It's too powerful for 1.x and has awesome new features. We have so many new features and didn't release smaller version updates... but we started with weekly builds for our customers in decemter 2013.

Most of our customers have access to early release versions with all available features. This is not usual for product development companies, but we develop high quality software and take the risk

We've releasd a bigger update of VisionX with the version number 1.2.136 in december for all our customers. So please check your download areas.

Some new features for the next weekly build will be:

• New data editor
  

  		The new data editor supports more than one column in drop downs. It offers an advanced mode for customization of column names, table names and datatypes. It's powerful but still as simple as the old one. This thing rocks!

• Templates for new applications
  

  		It'll be possible to create templates for new applications.

• Templates for new work-screens
  

  		It'll be possible to create templates for new work-screens.

• Screen template with header and footer
  

  		VisionX includes a custom screen template that has a header and footer panel.

• New customizer for fixed screen size
  

  		It's possible to set a fixed size for a screen.

• New customizer for styled screen
  

  		It's so easy to customize the new screen template.

We have more amazing features, that covers reporting and new JVx features. If you have access to VisionX' nightly builds, simply check the changelog of VisionX and ProjX for details.

We know that VisionX 1.2 will be #awesome because it has endless power under the hood. It'll combine productivity features with state-of-the-art technologies. The release is still planned for 2013. But we won't let you wait

The brand new preview version of VisionX 1.2 is available as trial and as cloud service. The preview version is not feature complete but contains a lot of new features and of course, many improvements.

A short intro

• New html5 client based on VaadinUI
  

  		It's awesome to design an application and see all changes live in your web application. One mouse click is enough to be amazed.

• Mobile client support is on board

  VisionX has support for native iOS and Android apps. This is a killer feature, because you design your application and your native app is ready without additional steps. We're still working on our native apps because they aren't available in app stores. This needs some additional time. But our open source clients work without problems!

• Super fast Oracle support

  The last VisionX versions had performance problems with (very) large databases. You had to wait about 10 minutes or more, to select a table. This was so frustrating. The performance is now better than ok. It works without delays!

• New actions

  We have new actions for tabset and component handling, for environment access (web, desktop, mobile) and much more.

• New events
  

  We have new events for work-screens and tabsets.

• Extended reporting syntax

  Our old solution was loop oriented. Loops were used for iterating all records. You had no chance to get the value of a specific record. This is now possible. We now support following: [LOOP@storage#3][YEAR]/[MONTH][LOOP@storage#3]. This placeholder prints the value of YEAR and MONTH from the third record. The short syntax, for one single column is [storage#3!YEAR].

• Self-joined trees

  It's now possible to create trees with self-joined tables.

• Environment control
  

  It's now possible to hide specific screens on specific environments, e.g. You won't see the user-management screen with html5 mode, but it'll be available in your desktop application. Don't create new roles or new users for that, simply change environment flags via menu management.

• New LIVE preview wizard
  

  		The wizard allows html5, mobile or desktop preview and shows additional information for manually previewing applications. VisionX shows scannable QR Code for mobile preview mode.

• New online help based on Vaadin

  Our new online help system supports full-text search and has a modern style.

Above list is not complete because we have about 250 changes in this version (most are new features).

Simply try the preview and send us your feedback. Every comment is welcome!

Our customers should check their download area!

The preview version of VisionX 1.2 is available as Trial version for your desktop. It offers all available features and shouldn't have any problems. The problems on MacOS are solved and it works without problems on Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8.

Simply download the preview version and try it on your own device!

If you already own VisionX, check your download area!

Most of you know JVx as a full-stack application framework. You use it for creating backend applications or for your ERP applications. It offers different UI implementations for Desktops, Mobile Devices and Web Browsers. It has so many productivity features and now there is one more:

Yes, you read right - a whole application!

How it looks like?

JVx as Vaadin Portlet

It's not a fake, it's the well known Contacts screen from our Showcase application. We didn't change the source code to run the screen as Portlet! As you can see, we didn't use menus or toolbars, only one screen. A Portlet should be simple because Liferay offers menus and site navigation.

How it works?

Use your existing application, bundle it together with JVx.vaadin and configure the Portlet Launcher in your deployment descriptor. You need some additional configuration files for liferay, but there's no difference between your current Portlets and a Portlet for a JVx application.

Everything you need is Open Source and released under Apache License 2.0, but we don't have detailed documentation at the moment. Support us with your contribution!

Boost your productivity

If you develop a lot of different Portlets for your customers and won't waste time for XML file creation, simply use VisionX. It has a WYSIWYG UI editor and creates your database model on-the-fly. It is your pain killer!

It offers Liferay Portlet creation with 4 mouse clicks. Don't create everything manually and save time - Use VisionX!

VisionX Screen Design

We've used VisionX to demonstrate the creation of above contacts screen. We spent 5 minutes to create a complete application, with database model, user management and Liferay Portlet deployment. We were amazingly fast!

We released VisionX 1.1.1 as little Thank you to our customers. Thanks for the great Feedback and for all the compliments!

The new release contains many improvements and solves some ugly problems.

The details

• Application reload in Browsers

  It is not necessary to clear the Java or Browser cache. The application now reloads automatically.

• Data export

  The simple export of records now creates valid CSV files. Simply open it with Excel or other Office suites.

• Install the database without freeze

  VisionX had a problem with opened database connections, because the installation waits until all resources are freed. In the current release, VisionX closes all opened connections during installation. The database installation now runs smoothly.

• Translation update

  We updated the English translation.

• Tomcat Settings

  If you reused a Tomcat setting, the port is set to 80. Now the stored port is used.

• User Management

  Now it is possible to customize the User Management screen.

• Form screen validation

  If you close a form screen but not all required fields are filled, you get only one information dialog.

• Default table sort

  If you sort a table with different columns and different sort orders, it is saved now.

• Edit data table

  We found a potential freeze during screen update and changed the display of the data type.

• Action editor

  A value change command does not create a new insert command anymore.

Have fun with this fantastic release.

The current version of VisionX is available as Public Cloud version. After a short registration you get access to VisionX.

The Public version shares all available applications with all registered users. It is different to the Beta phase because the Beta version was like a private Cloud per user.

With VisionX you get a tool to create your own applications without developer skills. A dream comes true.
It is no exaggeration to say that VisionX is the world's only tool of its kind.

What features are available in VisionX Cloud?

Here are some of them:

• A very smart WYSIWYG User Interface editor
• Edit actions without source code (open a screen, calculate values, hide components)
• Reporting with customizable templates
• Complete User management
• Role management (customize an application per user)
• Menu management
• Module support and API for third party modules
• Use existing database models and create User Interfaces
• Import spreadsheets (csv, xls, xlsx)
• Application customization (auto login, default screen, images, ...)
• HTML User Interface (webui)

Are you interested? Start with VisionX - now.

Today, we updated our VisionX Beta installation to the current version. It contains many performance improvements - Be surprised

The short list:

• VisionX works now on MacOS X (Snow Leopard)
• Clipboard support for JREs >= 1.6.0 u24
• Drop only database objects and/or the database user
• MetaData caching
• Application loading without additional server requests
• Screen locking - prevents simultaneous editing of the same screen
• German/English translation upates
• Bugfixes

All test systems were resetted. Let's create applications with amazing new features!

The reset was necessary because we changed the project structure and a migration in the current product stage is not funny.

Thanks to all VisionX users. We collected a lot of performance data because of your use. With this, we were able to reduce some bottlenecks.

Now, an application starts without delays and the designer opens a screen without additional remote calls.

Our next optimization concerns the remote calls of data objects. There are savings in the range of seconds. This optimization will be done directly in JVx and because of this, JVx developers will love it

Today we installed the first update for VisionX. It contains many improvements, based on our user feedbacks.

A short list:

• The screen creation with large spreadsheets (> 200 columns) works now
• DB Specification does not show empty tags anymore
• Show icons for user tables/views and system tables/views
• We fixed some translations
• Added a workaround for JRE >= 1.6.22 html formatting problems
• Color selection for GroupPanels is now supported

We fixed a lot of smaller problems and started with performance tuning. Now we have enough data to reduce bottlenecks. We send too many requests especially during design mode switching, but that was important to find where it makes sense to optimize.

Stay tuned.

Today is a great day for us! We launch VisionX as public beta.

VisionX is available as installation in the cloud, even if it was not yet fully optimized for the Cloud. Some options could still be better adapted to the Cloud, but VisionX is not only a cloud tool. It is designed for Intranets or desktop PCs too.

The launched version allows application creation, screen design with a great visual designer, database object creation, help and specification creation. It is possible to export an application as eclipse project and import an external application archive into VisionX. The installation on remote application servers is also available. But of course, we have some limitations and not implemented features.

The caching is completely disabled because we want to gather real-world performance data. Because of that, VisionX needs some extra time after login, the application start or during visual design. But the performance is still quite acceptable.

Some important features like search/filter, actions, edit menus, user management are still in development and are disabled. We will activate the disabled features in the course of the coming weeks.

Use the registration form to get access to VisionX.

We look forward to your feedback