Upgrading installations

In order to provide the best possible security, Servoy 7 comes with a renewed Code Signing certificate, that utilizes OCSP. As Java 5 is End Of Live (see http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html) it does not support OCSP, which makes the Java 6 the new minimum Java version for Servoy 7.

Upgrading Servoy Application Server

Existing Servoy 6.1.x installations can be upgraded through the regular update process for Servoy Application Servers, see Upgrading the server for more details. Note that the upgrade involves a Servoy Repository upgrade

Installations running an older version of Servoy can't be upgraded, thus a new installation is required. See Installing the Application Server for more information.

Upgrading Servoy Developer

Existing Servoy 6.1.x installation can be upgraded to Servoy 7.0.x. In order to do so, open the Available Update Sites preferences and edit the url of the "Servoy update site entry":

• Open Window > Preferences > Install/Update > Available Software Sites
• Find the entry named "Servoy update site" and select the row
• Click Edit 
• Change the Location field from "https://www.servoy.com/developer/61x_updates" to "https://www.servoy.com/developer/70x_updates"
• Close all dialogs
• Select Help > "Check for updates" to trigger the update
• After the update has completed, restart Servoy Developer. 
• when Servoy Developer is launched again, it will prompt for an update of the underlying Servoy Application Server. click OK to update the Application Server

Servoy Developer installations of older Servoy version cannot be upgraded, so a new installation with the Servoy 7 installer is required. See Installing Developer for more information.

Upgrading existing Solutions

Upgrading existing Solutions to Servoy 7 is as easy as opening Servoy Developer 7 and getting the Solutions into the workspace or opening an existing workspace in Servoy 7. Note that once solutions are edited using Servoy 7, they cannot be used in earlier versions of Servoy anymore.

Once imported, the Solutions can be tested with Servoy 7. Servoy 7 introduces a few minor behavior changes, some of which could potentially break existing code. It should be investigated if the upgraded solutions are affected by these changes. The behavior changes are listed and discussed in the paragraph #Behavior Changes.

Behavior changes

This paragraph describes the behavior changes that are introduced in Servoy 6.0. There are three categories of behavior changes:

1. Changes that might break existing code
2. Real behavior changes
3. Changes that affect the display of the UI

Changes that might break existing code

• As of Servoy 7 Forms that are in ClientDesign mode will retain their Client Design mode status if they are hidden from the UI and then shown again
• As of Servoy 7 when a column has a Column Converter attached, the output of the converter will be used for the SQL layer of Servoy in FindMode or with Table/FoundSet filters. Prior to Servoy 7, the supplied values in FindMode by the user or through scripting or the values used in Table/FoundSet filters would not be passed through the column Converter before being used in the SQL layer

Deprecated API

Servoy 7 deprecates parts of the existing API, as it has become obsolete or has been replaced by better alternatives. This section lists the deprecated methods or properties with their replacement where applicable.

Designtime API

The list of deprecated properties in the Designtime API is limited. Except for the deprecation of the "rowBGColorCalculation" on Forms and Portals, the deprecation of the properties require no action on behalf of the developer, as Servoy Developer will automatically handle the changes.

Runtime API

The majority of the deprecations in the Runtime API are related to the new windowing API and the refactored HTTP plugin.