Entry for October 09, 2006
Manage 2000 7.2 sp0 is "in the can". Most of the preparations for Perspectives have been finished. And now the development team is settling into a pleasant lull after the long hard summer. There remain the perennial small projects to occupy us until the beta sites start feeding us the work which will make 7.2 "sea-worthy".
I am happy with amount of "cool stuff" which made it into 7.2. And yet, in each major project, I can see another level to climb up to.
The ERPBusinessObjectService, in particular, has some very important new features. Unfortunately there is no session planned for it as Perspectives. But maybe I can sneak in some attention to it.
There is the beginnings of legitmate interest in web services among clients, and 7.2 ERPBusinessObjectService provides new useful methods:
* ValidateRecordKey - for validating parts and customers without having to export and refresh Manage 2000 file contents to SQL tables
* CallUdtSub - for running UniBasic subroutines across SOAP. A Unibasic programmer can write a routine and a web developer can instantly make use of it.
* UniQuerySelect, GetKeysFromCookie, and GetItemsAsXML provide the foundation for running UniQuery processes returning XML content.
