WebORB for .NET 3.2 (Lots of new cool stuff)

There is a new release of WebORB for .NET (3.2) available for immediate download. The release brings the Enterprise Edition closer to the production release and also delivers a ton of new features and bug fixes:

• WebORB Data Management Plugin for Flex Builder 2 .
  Installation instructions are available at: http://www.themidnightcoders.com/weborb/dotnet/wdmf-flexbuilder.shtm
  Flex Builder 3 support will be available soon.
  


• WebORB-based Implementation of Flex Producer/Consumer APIs.
  WebORB distribution includes a Flex component with an implementation of the Producer and Consumer API. If you are using Flex pub/sub with WebORB, make sure to add weborb.swc from [WEBORB INSTALL]/weborbassets/wdm to your Flex Builder project library.
  
  
• WebORB Data Management (WDMF) now generates unit test cases.
  WDMF code generator can now optionally add unit test cases for all the generated code. The test cases can be executed from the Flex Builder project.
  
  
• WDMF Console improvements (menu/task-based layout).
  The new WDMF Designer console layout makes it easier to perform tasks like code generation, code retrieval and assembly deployment
  
  
• WDMF client auto-reconnect.
  If the WDMF client disconnects from the server, it will attempt automatic reconnect.
  
  
• WDMF generated assembly can be automatically deployed.
  The auto deployment option makes it easier to deploy the compiled assembly to the current virtual directory.
  
  
• Improved WDMF data model validation.
  Included checks for missing related tables and missing primary keys.
  
  
• Custom Flex channel implementation for RTMP messaging.
  Weborb SWC component for Flex now includes a custom channel for the RTMP messaging. If you are getting a message WeborbMessagingChannel is not defined, make sure to add weborb.swc from [WEBORB INSTALL]/weborbassets/wdm into your Flex Builder project
  
  
• Automatic GZIP response compression.
  WebORB will automatically compress responses using GZIP or Deflate compression algorithms when the response size is over the pre-configured limit. See the node in weborb.config for more details.
  
  
• Support for custom security roles provider.
  WebORB can be configured with a custom roles provider. The role provider is responsible to provide a list of available roles to the WebORB management console. Additionally it is used by the default principal implementation to check if a user belongs to a role.
  
  
• Support for Windows Forms Authentication.
  WebORB includes instructions and API to support Windows Forms Authentication. See Logon.aspx and Global.asax for details.
  
  
• Changed IWebORBAuthenticationHandler to return System.Security.Principal.IPrincipal. The CheckCredentials method has changed to return an instance of IPrincipal. The principal is associated with the calling thread, thus individual method can be secured using .NET's standard code access security (CAS) mechanism.
  
  
• Added support for Flash Remoting style of DataSet object serialization.
  WebORB serializes instances of DataSet class using the same data structure as Flash Remoting. Previous serialization format can be turned on in weborb.config. See the node for more details.
  
  
• Changed the WDMF base object (Weborb.Data.Management.DomainObject) to be serializable. This change allows persistence of the WDMF generated classes.
  
  
• Changed WDMF generated classes to use inheritance vs. partial class implementation. This change provides greater flexibility when overriding default WDMF methods.
  
  
• Changed log time to use current locale (used to be GMT-0).
  All log entries now use local server time.

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