Software App Foundations in Eiffel News

New
- Code compliant to ISE Eiffel 6.3 and Gobo Eiffel 3.9 (towards ECMA 367)
- Support of BIGINT datatype (INTEGER_64)
- Time tracing of query execution

Reworked
- Documentation
- Build automation

Various bug fixes.

New
- Blob/large data transfer
- Information on DBMS capabilities
- Session control and information
- Login strategies : simple (data source, user name, password) or through connection string
- Information about installed ODBC drivers
- Decimal/Numeric data using MA_DECIMAL class

Reworked
- Samples
- Documentation
- Tests and class hierarchies

Various bug fixes.

EPOM

Eiffel Persistent Objects Management is a
general framework for handling persistence of
objects using some existing datastore technology.

New Metadata Classes
High-Performance through arrayed operations
Minor updates and corrections.

* Version 1.1
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Released Version 1.0
* Visual Eiffel 4.1, ISE Eiffel 5.2 & 5.3, SmartEiffel 1.0
* Bug fixes
* Win32, .NET, Linux

Released Version 1.08.
* Optimized implementation
* Passes all 1.08 testcases
* Visual Eiffel 4.1, ISE Eiffel 5.2 & 5.3, SmartEiffel 1.0
* Win32, .NET and Linux

ECLI V1.0 has been released.

New features : tracefacility, transaction capabilities.
Updated : reworked examples, open/close features of ECLI_SESSION and ECLI_STATEMENT.
Fixed : Memory leaks
Tested: Oracle 8, Access, PostgreSQL; Win98, WinNT, Linux (Caldera, Suse)

ECURSES now fully supports SmallEiffel.
Minor bug fixes.