I am very happy to announce that WebORB version 4.4 for .NET is now available for download. This is a very cool release packed with a bunch of awesome features. Here’s what you will find in 4.4:
- WebORB Data Management for JavaScript - If you’re familiar with WebORB, more than likely you know about our data management framework. If not, then you can learn about it either from the WebORB Data Management documentation or the Data Management webinar recording. In short, the framework lets you quickly import your database schema into our Data Modeller tool and generate client and server-side code to enable full CRUD with your data from the ActionScript or JavaScript client or the server-side code. The same code generator can also create a demo application which demonstrates the power of the API. To see this new feature in action, download and install WebORB for .NET, open the management console and select the Data Management tab.
- Publish/Subscribe Code Generators - In addition to remoting and data management, WebORB is also a very powerful messaging engine enabling publish/subscribe integration for a variety of client technologies. The new version lets you easily generate Java, Flex, JavaScript, Silverlight and Windows Phone code demonstrating the usage of the WebORB’s publish/subscribe API. To see this in action, download and install WebORB for .NET, run the management console, select the Messaging Server tab. You will see a list of messaging destination. Select a destination and switch to the “Code Generation” tab.
- Code Generator for the RTMP features – WebORB for .NET provides an implementation of the RTMP protocol and enables many cool features for the RTMP clients. These include video streaming and recording, remote shared objects and data push. With the new release of WebORB we added a very cool code generator which can create a demo app for your messaging/RTMP application to see all these features in action. To experience the feature, run the management console, switch to the Messaging Server tab, select an application and switch to the Code Generation tab.
- Remoting for Windows Phone (with Code Generation) – Our goal is to provide universal connectivity support for all major mobile operating systems. With this release we added remoting and messaging support for Windows Mobile clients. The remoting integration enables Windows Mobile apps to invoke methods on plain .NET objects, WCF services, Spring.NET beans and SOAP web services through WebORB. To make this integration even easier we added a code generator which can create both a remoting library and a demo application demonstrating the APIs. To experience the feature, run the management console, select the Services tab and locate a service to generate the code for. Select the “Silverlight” option in the list of code generators and make sure to select the “Create project files” checkbox. The generated code includes a Windows Mobile Visual Studio project.
We plan to create short videos demonstrating this new and exciting features. We will be posting them to the Midnight Coders YouTube channel as well as this blog. Meanwhile, download the new release and let us know what you think.