Tom Sawyer Perspectives, Java Edition

Releases

All     2.0       2.0.1       2.0.0     1.0       1.0.1

Release 2.0.1 Date July 15, 2010 Status   General Overview This release addresses an issue preventing the deployment of Tom Sawyer Perspectives Project Previewer, improves the Tom Sawyer Perspectives library that is used to develop GWT applications, and updates support for Microsoft SQL Server JDBC drivers. New None Improvements Data Integration Added support for Microsoft SQL Server JDBC driver versions 2.0 and 3.0 Requirements Added support for GWT 2.0.3 Fixes The Tom Sawyer Perspectives Project Previewer can now be deployed as an application Added a missing class to a Tom Sawyer Perspectives library that is used to develop GWT applications Issues With Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Vista, JDK 6.0 does not support Windows XP Compatibility Mode Release 2.0.0 Date July 8, 2010 Status   General Overview Tom Sawyer Perspectives now supports web application deployment. You can design your applications once within Tom Sawyer Perspectives Designer and then deploy them to web or desktop applications. In addition, the visualization and layout architectures have been optimized to improve performance. Layout speed has increased by twenty to sixty percent. New Installation Support for license server connection through a web proxy server Web Interfaces Client Integration Support for most Java web application frameworks Simple HTML tags embed views and other components in web applications GWT component libraries enable integration with GWT applications Advanced AJAX calls minimize page refresh and ensure excellent performance Flexible JavaScript functions invoke custom commands using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Display Components Drawing view Inspector view Table view Tree view Overview window Coordinated view updates Tab and split panels for use in web applications Scroll and zoom control panel in drawing views Customizable CSS for views and display components A variety of tree cell and table cell renderer and editor types Print setup dialog Print preview Multipage printing Interactivity Toolbars and context menus Viewing tools include select, pan, marquee zoom, zoom in, zoom out, and zoom fit Editing tools create and move objects and create inter-object associations Model Attribute values can be computed from expressions using functions or other attributes Attribute values can be synchronized with graphical element properties Data Integration The XML integrator supports namespaces Data source locale specifications Data source text encoding specifications Layout Threaded layout Layout cancel Layout animation for desktop applications Drawing Fitting optimizes use of the drawing canvas or printed page Open and closed group constraints Documentation Descriptions and images for layout options online help Tutorials for GWT and HTML client integration Instructions for staging on several popular application servers Additional examples in biological ontology, networking, and process design Improvements Installation Improved installation program Improved licensing setup Technology Improved application internationalization Improved support for the Apple Mac OS X user interface Designer Revamped integrator definition dialog boxes New icons to indicate web and desktop feature availability Enabled setting root drawing layout properties Updated and refined default toolbar for drawing views Added JDBC connection templates for Ingres, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, PostgreSQL, and Sybase databases Customized color chooser to enable choosing colors with transparency Improved file chooser behavior Layout All Layout Styles Increased layout speed by twenty to sixty percent Animated threaded and unthreaded operations Improved drawing layout with fewer interdrawing edge crossings Circular Layout Style Improved edge labeling with dense drawings Enhanced clustering quality Refined clustering options Enhanced multiedge routing Hierarchical Layout Style Enhanced incremental layout results Reduced number of edge crossings Improved edge labeling with orthogonal and polyline routing Orthogonal Layout Style Reduced local edge crossings Refined labeling Enhanced group constraint quality Improved node placement with fixed connectors Improved edge labeling Symmetric Layout Style Improved edge labeling with dense drawings Enhanced multiedge routing Improved node placement with fixed connectors Enhanced handling of fixed point constraints Routing Reduced edge crossings with orthogonal routing Significantly enhanced orthogonal edge routing with connectors Labeling Increased quality Requirements These operating systems have been added: Apple Mac OS X 10.6 Microsoft Windows 7 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Red Hat Linux 5 These operating systems have been dropped: Apple Mac OS X 10.4 Red Hat Linux 4 SUSE Linux 10 Ubuntu 7.10 These application servers have been added: Apache Tomcat 6.0 IBM Websphere 7.0 Oracle WebLogic Server 11g Red Hat JBoss 5.1 These browsers have been added: Apple Safari 4.0 and 5.0 Google Chrome 4.0 and 5.0 Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 and 8.0 Mozilla Firefox 3.5 and 3.6 Fixes Date and time settings are compatible with various locales Issues With Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Vista, JDK 6.0 does not support Windows XP Compatibility Mode Release 1.0.1 Date June 26, 2009 Status   General Overview This release improves overall performance in all views and adds support for additional image formats. It also includes several minor fixes. New None Improvements Improved overall performance in all views Added support for exporting images to PDF and SVG file formats Added support for time in Oracle date format Requirements No changes Fixes An erroneous warning no longer appears during image export Integrator commit now works for rows with trailing nulls Selection Change Events are now fired only when the new selection differs from the previous selection Toolbar state is now updated when a Deselect All event occurs in the tree or drawing views Filters can now be used with the lookup function in table views Minor issues corrected in example projects Issues None