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On Dec 31, 2008, at 8:45 AM, Holger Knublauch <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
