Omnis Studio Latest News

Jan/Feb, 2005

New version of Omnis Studio...

The next major release of Omnis Studio will be Version 4.1 that will include a number of new features and enhancements, increasing the integration, productivity and flexibility of the Studio product range. Not least, the new features include a Unicode version of Omnis and full Multipart form data capability. The major enhancements are:

• Unicode version of Omnis Studio: Many enhancements have been made to support the Unicode version of Omnis Studio 4.1. The final version of Omnis Studio 4.1 for Unicode will be released on a separate product CD and will be available under Windows and Mac OS X. The first Beta version is now available to selected developers on request.

• Multipart form data: You can now pass non-ASCII data and upload binary files, such as spreadsheets, documents, and sound files, to the Omnis Server via an HTML form using the Multipart form data type.

• Class Comparison tool: lets you compare classes in two different versions of the same Omnis library or different revisions of the same class in a VCS project. This new tool will be available in the Studio Browser or while using the Omnis VCS.

• Omnis Data Bridge for Solaris: The Omnis Data Bridge (ODB) will be available for Sun Solaris.

There are numerous other new features and enhancements in Studio 4.1, some of which will be shown at this year's EurOmnis. Later in 2005, we will release a Beta 2 version of Studio 4.1 which will have more features. If you are registered on the Omnis Developer Partner Program and would like to test Beta 1 of Omnis Studio 4.1, please go to the Beta web page and signup.
http://www.omnis.net/develop/betaprogram

Featured Site

Fizz Software has been creating Omnis components and mobile software for many years. Project 3.0 is their showcase Omnis scheduling component. Used today by many large Omnis clients, version 3 has many new features, and is available for OSX and Win32, for both the thick and web client. A trial version of this and other Omnis components can be downloaded from their web site.

Fizz Software is also one of the leaders in Smartphone/PocketPC development. Their award winning software runs on Microsoft Mobile devices now a commonplace platform.

To find out more about Fizz products, see www.fizzsoftware.com/omnis

Omnis at CeBIT 2005

Omnis workshops
We have put together a series of workshops that are designed to introduce you to Omnis Studio and Omnis Studio for SAP. The workshops will take place in Hamburg and Erding (near Munich), in Germany, and dates are set aside up until June 2005. If you wish to evaluate any of our Omnis products, then this type of workshop is the best way: during the workshops, we will demonstrate Omnis and you will have the opportunity to discuss your development requirements with our senior technical consultants.

For further details about the workshops, and to register, please click here:
www.omnis.net/sap/workshops_en.html

Raining Data Germany are pleased to announce they are attending CeBIT, in Hannover, 10 to 16 March, 2005. We are in Hall 3 which hosts many of the world's leading software and IT services providers. We will be showing the latest version of Omnis Studio, version 4, and Omnis Studio for SAP, as well as featuring some of our leading European VARs and solution providers.

The CeBIT trade fair in Hannover is spread over 7 days and is the largest IT trade fair in the world. With around 7,000 exhibitors in over 30 different halls, and 700,000 visitors from more than 60 countries, it provides a vast showcase for the latest information technology, telecommunications, software and IT services. We urge you to attend this important IT trade fair, and invite you to come along to our stand in hall 3 and let us show you how to build an Omnis web application in 20 minutes (Yes, you should see that to believe it). For more information about the show, please go to: www.cebit.de, or email Birgit Jaeger: ge.sales@rainingdata.com

EurOmnis coming soon...

EurOmnis is a technical conference, organised by developers, for developers, which will take place 6th to 11th February, 2005. It's not too late to register for the conference and the organisers are keeping the December prices in force during January, so register today to secure your place.

This year there are up to 5 technical tracks running throughout the conference, catering for all levels of expertise, and featuring a complete Omnis Quickstart training course for beginners. Among the guest presenters will be members of the StudioWorks community who will be running a track throughout the conference, while Bremen Software and Four Solutions will be showing their ERP software which has over 25,000 users in 1,000 companies.

Members of Raining Data UK and Germany will be attending the conference and will be there to answer all your questions. In addition, we will be presenting the new features in the Beta version of Omnis Studio 4.1, including the new Unicode version of Omnis. Plus there may be some other surprise technical announcements!
So register today: www.euromnis.com

Studio Tech Tip

Introduced in Omnis Studio 4.0, Remote Studio (RStudio) is an applet technology, which provides an equivalent of remote procedure calls to an Omnis server in order to provide additional functionality.

The RStudio applet may reside either on the client or the server and can be utilised from many languages. For example, you could invoke it on a server from PERL or PHP, or invoke it on a client from VBScript, Delphi or .NET (C#, C or Visual Basic), that is, wherever COM is available. A Java version is also available.

If you are a registered developer, you can contact support and they can supply you with an example using RStudio.

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