Whats New

Download Free SDK

Brainwave Academy


 Home >> Whats New in Brainwave 1.2

Whats new in Brainwave 1.2

1) Applications:
  • New Data Manager for GUI based namespace management.
  • New Query Builder in Data Manager.
  • New Docbook Application (Brainwave Developer Manual).
  • New Enterprise Metadata Repository (EMR) Sample Application.
2) Database Features
  • Views.
  • Snapshots.
  • Hot-backup.
  • Faster performance.
  • Multi-processor support - dbserver.
  • More space efficient databases compared to 1.1 - Completely new disk formats.
  • Support for JSON protocol, Integration with .NET, J2EE available.
  • Memcached distributed caching support.
  • Configuration file for changing internal parameters.
  • Unified Logging.
3) Templating Plugins
  • Mako Template Plugin Open Sourced.
  • Dreamweaver Template Plugin Open Sourced
4) Aphrodite - UI Engine
  • jQuery integration (v1.2.6)
  • CSS standardization across browsers
  • Web.py, web helpers module for use in Cheetah and Mako templates.
  • Brand new grid widget.
    • Better performance.
    • Better UI.
    • Filtering, sorting, grouping, barcharts, gradient charts, analytics.
  • Brand new Tabs UI.
  • Internet Explorer 7 compatible.
  • Charting framework - based on Google Charting API
5) Hermes - web-services (bugs fixed)
  • Export supported in RDF, CSV, XML, JSON.
6) Iris - Application Server
  • Customizable Authentication Backends
  • i18n/l10n Framework added
  • Unified Error Framework.
7) Security
  • iris.permissions decorator for restricting function usage.
  • Security Manager applet in controlpanel allows GUI control over policies and capabilities.
8) Miscellaneous
  • Linux compatibility (Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat, OpenSuse).
  • Unix compatibility (FreeBSD).
  • API Reference Guide added.