The Servoy 6.1 release focuses on the following area's:
- Extending the capabilities to create compelling User Interfaces
- Web Client compatibility
- Developing large-scale Solutions
- Ease of deployment
User Interface enhancements
Servoy 6.1 introduces several new UI widgets and extended styling capabilities
- Listbox: A ListBox is similar to a Combobox, but instead of having a dropdown to display all the possible values, it has a multi-line UI where displaying the possible values. The ListBox is availble in two variations: Single and MultiSelect
- Accordion Pane: The AccordionPane is similar to a TabPanel, in that it contains multiple Forms, of which only one can be shown at the time.
- Spinner field
- Popup Form
Styling options
- CSS3 border-radius
- CSS3 gradients
- CSS3 RGBA colors (semi-transparent colors)
- CSS background-image
- TableView & Portal header styling through CSS
- TableView & Portal odd/even/selected row border styling through CSS
- Form Part StyleClass support
- Undecorated JSWindows
- Support for Smart Client Look & Feels to decorate the window chrome
Web Client compatibility
- ListView: The ListView mode for forms is now fully supported in the Web Client
- Title Border: The TitleBorder is fully supported on Forms, Panels, Labels and Border Panel shape
- Shapes: The Shape widgets (Horizontal/Vertical Line, Circle, Rounded Rectangle and Border Panel) are now fully supported in the Web Client
Programming API
- Multiple TopLevel scopes
- Entity scopes
- Formatting on Labels
- QueryBuilder API
- Folder support in the Media library
Deployment
- Support for installing the Servoy Application Server on any compliant Java Application Server, like JBoss, WebSphere, GlassFish etc. using WAR files: Servoy Developer 6.1 features the ability to export an entire Servoy Application Server plus a selections of plugins, beans, lafs and drivers as a so-called WAR file, which can be deployed to any compliant Java Application Server
- MetaData Export & sync facilities
- JMX Application Server monitoring
- Extended SQL Performance data on Servoy Admin page
- Support for updating to a specific buildnumber
Developer productivity
- Browser selection when launching a Debug Web Client
For more detail, see New in this release.