Dear users, We are pleased to announce the first public beta release of TopBraid Composer 3.0, Standard and Maestro Editions.
It is available for download from http://www.topquadrant.com/topbraid/composer/tbc-3.0.0.html This is the first public release of TopBraid since version 2.6.2 in August 2008. Since last release we have made substantial improvements to the products and also made significant changes to our development processes, enabling TopQuadrant to better respond to the needs of our rapidly growing customer base. We have increased the size of the product team (among others, the Jena architect Jeremy Carroll has joined us from HP Labs) and we have better aligned the different facets of the TopBraid Suite product family. Our new release strategy is to have fewer releases than before, but to subject each release to a more rigorous test process. For 3.0 this process includes two rounds of beta releases. We expect the second beta to come out in January and the official 3.0 release in February. Major new capabilities in TopBraid Composer 3.0 include: - Support for the SPARQL Inferencing Notation (SPIN) [1] - Incremental SPARQL-based inferencing using SPIN - Constraint checking at edit time using SPIN - Support for named graphs in AllegroGraph and Sesame 2 - Forms now contain incoming reference (inverse) widgets - Significant improvements to SPARQLMotion/Web services - Support for sharing SPARQL queries on SPARQLpedia [2] - Numerous bug fixes and performance improvements Beside Composer the TopBraid Live and TopBraid Ensemble products have undergone a major redesign. These changes will be rolled out incrementally over the beta phase. Beta 1 includes significant improvements to the TopBraid Live's web services support via SPARQLMotion. Starting with Beta 2 a personal test version of the TopBraid Ensemble will be bundled with the TopBraid Composer Maestro Edition. TopBraid Ensemble 3.0 has evolved from a specific application to an application assembly toolkit. Users can select, configure and wire components to quickly assemble a variety of dynamic model-based Rich Internet Applications. Please read further details and the installation instructions on the download site. Kind regards and best wishes for 2009 Holger & the TopBraid Suite development team [1] http://www.topquadrant.com/topbraid/composer/spin.html [2] http://sparqlpedia.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TopBraid Composer Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/topbraid-composer-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
