ODABA

Extension attributes have been introduced, which allow extending data types at run-time by transient attributes. In addition, ad-hoc ordering for persistent collections based on persistent, transient, and extension attributes is supported. Create new project support has been improved essentially by generating appropriate command files for running ODE tools and Sample procedures. Several improvements have been made for schema version support, including schema version reset. Several minor improvements have been made for OSI and ODE tools, and several bugs have been removed.

Several features have been improved and reported bugs have been fixed. The essential new feature is the release of multiple storage support in order to store ODABA data in relational databases and different types of document generations (LibreOffice, HTML, MS Office). Schema conversion allows creating SQL schema from ODABA model specifications. Minor extensions have been made to the GUI framework and for ODABA development tools. The component structure of the package has been improved, and third party components are now optional.

Several features have been improved and reported bugs have been fixed. ODE Designer provides a new feature for exchanging development resources between projects (component support). Problems with the GUI framework have been solved, as well as OSI problems. ODE tools design became more consistent. Extensive testings have been made to remove memory leaks as well as unsafe memory updates.

With ODABA 11.2.0, Terminus has been changed essentially for supporting Terminology Model II and upgrading a terminology model to a database model. Extension properties have been introduced in order to provide flexibility, as key/value stores do. Enhanced use of text definitions becomes possible because of extended help features. Several new control styles are supported, and text controls accept different text encodings as being defined in the database. About 80% of compiler warnings have been removed.

This version contains several fixes for bugs reported since the last release. These include problems initializing a new project, resulting in unchecked data types. Handling of __AUTOIDENT keys did not work properly when copying data. Several OSI functions (e.g. Property::top()) relocated an instance after being executed. Displaying enumerator attributes or keys created invalid output. Data conversion was invalid for platform independent (PIF) databases when running under Linux after compiling with -O2.