GeneXus Rocha is already getting tongues wagging
At the XVI International GeneXus Event, Breogán Gonda, president of Artech, said that GeneXus Rocha is “a huge leap in our history”. It is no surprise then that the new GeneXus version is already getting tongues wagging.
The repercussions of the release of the next GeneXus version, “GeneXus Rocha”, at the end of this year, are starting to be felt. Not only did eSemanal publish the news of its presentation in Mexico a few months ago, but it now features an article written by Alex Woodie for ITjungle that describes the new features of this version.
Here is a summary of the article written by Woodie for ITjungle.
Artech is moving forward on a rewrite of GeneXus, its fourth-generation language (4GL) development environment, and should be ready to announce its availability later this year. GeneXus 10, which goes by the name “Rocha”, will be a complete rewrite of the IDE, and bring features such as a process modeler, an integrated portal, and pattern-based development to iSeries developers using the tool.
With Rocha, or version 10, the company is undertaking a complete rewrite of the IDE to prepare it for the next decade of progress. Company officials say the rewrite is necessary to modernize the IDE and take advantage of new technology.
The rewrite is being undertaken at ARTech’s research and development laboratories at its headquarters in Uruguay using Microsoft .NET tooling (While about half of its customers are iSeries shops, GeneXus itself is being rewritten using C and its offshoots). The underlying structure of the GeneXus knowledgebase, or KB, is being changed to enable the new features to be added.
The new version will also introduce a new object type, called the Data Provider. This new object is expected to boost developer productivity by making it easy to duplicate code. If a developer wants to use the same type of feature in more than one place, they can use the Data Provider to incorporate it into the program.
Version 10 will also introduce full text search capabilities in the KB, which will make it much easier for developers to find specific areas of an application, such as help text, screens, business rules or reports, instead of searching around aimlessly until they find it.
To read the complete article, click here.
Here is a summary of the article written by Woodie for ITjungle.
Artech is moving forward on a rewrite of GeneXus, its fourth-generation language (4GL) development environment, and should be ready to announce its availability later this year. GeneXus 10, which goes by the name “Rocha”, will be a complete rewrite of the IDE, and bring features such as a process modeler, an integrated portal, and pattern-based development to iSeries developers using the tool.
With Rocha, or version 10, the company is undertaking a complete rewrite of the IDE to prepare it for the next decade of progress. Company officials say the rewrite is necessary to modernize the IDE and take advantage of new technology.
The rewrite is being undertaken at ARTech’s research and development laboratories at its headquarters in Uruguay using Microsoft .NET tooling (While about half of its customers are iSeries shops, GeneXus itself is being rewritten using C and its offshoots). The underlying structure of the GeneXus knowledgebase, or KB, is being changed to enable the new features to be added.
The new version will also introduce a new object type, called the Data Provider. This new object is expected to boost developer productivity by making it easy to duplicate code. If a developer wants to use the same type of feature in more than one place, they can use the Data Provider to incorporate it into the program.
Version 10 will also introduce full text search capabilities in the KB, which will make it much easier for developers to find specific areas of an application, such as help text, screens, business rules or reports, instead of searching around aimlessly until they find it.
To read the complete article, click here.