New Features

Owned by Xiaoyan Kong (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Nov 20, 2012
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Summary of new features in each release of the platform.  See the release notes for specific products for more details.

New features in Platform 4.5.0

  1. Data Services / SOA Integration
  2. Data Validation
  3. Headless Client
  4. Client side XML processing
  5. Enhanced rendering: Drop Shadows
  6. More flexible logging on the client

New features in Platform 4.2 MR 6

  1. New attributes: popupVisible, contextPopup and selectionPolicy.

New features in Platform 4.2 MR 5

  1. onBeforeActiveLost event enhanced.
  2. Table Sorting of Heavyweight components is improved
  3. Rich Text enhanced to facilitate editing of rich text and dynamic application of rich styles to text

New features in Platform 4.2 MR 4

  1. New attribute textSelectionPolicy for text components
  2. Cancelable events are avaiable in NFC (within onBeforeActiveLost)

New features in Platform 4.2

  1. Data Framework
  2. Desktop Client (Seperately Licensed Component - Contact Nexaweb Sales for more details)
  3. Support for minimum client environment requirements
  4. Application loading request reporting
  5. Full support AWT automation tools such as Mercury QuickTestPro
  6. Parameterized Macros
  7. Support for PDF print output
  8. Enhancements to the plug-in architecture
  9. Support for pack200 compression

New features in Nexaweb Platform Release 4.1 MR 1

  1. Support for "oppositeId" event parameter in the onBeforeActiveLost, onActiveLost and onActiveGained events to indicate where focus is coming from or going to.

New features in Nexaweb Platform Release 4.1

  1. Support for Composite Plugins
  2. FlushPolicies applied to PushConnections are now capable of closing the stream instead of sending whitespace. This can be useful for cases where polling from the client is not desirable, but flushing whitespace is not effective or desirable.
  3. Communications Queue Monitoring. The queues that hold information bound for client sessions are now monitorable on the server side.
  4. General UI Programming Enhancements and Fixes
  5. Initializing Nexaweb Server may now be accomplished from a ServletContextListener, allowing customers to utilize the Nexaweb Server API in a ServletContextListener of their own. This was previously not possible due to the fact that Nexaweb did not initialize until Servlets were initialized.
  6. Better performance for large tables (when using CDATA representation)
  7. Better performance for large data retrieval
  8. Support for configurable HTTP method for requests and better default selection
  9. There is a new XUpdate command to create documents on the client side, and the APIs for accessing Documents at the session level have become more generic.
  10. IME (Input Method Editor) support has been extended to include enhanced support in Java 1.2+ environments