BASIS International Ltd. announces the release of BBj® 6.01. While this maintenance release includes well over 250 bug fixes, it introduces a preview of BBj 7.0.

Preview of 7.0 features introduced in this release includes:

• BBjSysGui::get/setRepaintEnabled - provides control and indication of repaints on the client display
• BBjTemplatedString - provides the functionality of the traditional templated string used throughout BBj
• BBjGridEvent - provides an interface that allows a program to retrieve the grid (either a BBjStandardGrid or a BBjDataAwareGrid) that was the source of the event
• Interface MultiSourceEvent - allows a program to retrieve the source of the event cast to a specified type

• FormGen Wizard - allows developers to automatically create customizable data-bound forms based on the contents of a data file or SQL query
• AppBuilder enhancement - introduces ability to compile and execute projects in Visual PRO/5®

• ESQL (Exclusive SQL) tables - offers true SQL data types, variable length records, and dynamic index creation as well as the following:
  • Column constraint - allows filtering of the data that goes into a particular column
  • Computed column - defines columns in a table to be the result of a computation based on other fields in the same table
  • Default values - allows database administrators to define defaults for columns which will be used if no values are specified for that column. Default values may be any supported SQL data type or the result of a scalar or custom function.
  • Identity field - generates unique numeric value automatically
  • Row constraint - evaluates multiple columns in the row in order to determine the validity of the entire row
  • Unique constraint - prohibits multiple rows from having the same value for the same column
• SQL - introduces new TimestampAdd scalar function - returns the timestamp calculated by adding various time units (fractional seconds, minutes, days, weeks, years, etc.) to a timestamp value.

• Expanded account management - adds new BBjAdmin methods that include addUser, removeUser, changePassword

Read more details about this maintenance release in the BBj Readme, Relnotes.

Review the documentation for these BBj 7.0 preview features by typing BBj 7 in the index tab in the online BASIS documentation or on the product CD at documentation.html. To review the features and enhancements previously introduced in BBj 6.0x, type BBj 6 in the index tab.

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