SQL Server 2000 SP3 Beta starts Oct 1st 2002
Posted by Steven Parker on 23 September 2002 - 23:09 · 4 comments & 53 views
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Ladies, Gentlemen:
Thanks for joining the SQL Server 2000 SP3 beta program! We are excited to have you on board - and with your help I hope to make this the best SQL Server Beta program ever! We are implementing several of your suggestions from past beta programs including the introduction of a "Beta Testing Cookbook".
The cookbook was written by leads from around the development team and it highlights significant changes in Service Pack 2 and it recommends ways to test those changes! This will contribute significantly to helping you understand how SQL Server is different and how it affects your environments.
We are also giving you an opportunity to plan your testing prior to the betas release. Service Pack 3 is expected to go into Beta on October 1st, 2002. In the mean time, you have been granted access to www.betaplace.com where you'll find the Beta Testing Cookbook, the current SP3 fix list and a couple of testing plan templates you can use to put a formal plan in place.
The new products extend Macromedia's technology beyond its own ColdFusion MX and JRun platforms to third-party application severs, including IBM WebSphere and BEA WebLogic Server, said David Gruber, Macromedia senior product marketing manager for Flash Remoting MX, in Newton, Mass.
"What's new is we have previously shipped this technology as part of our own server technology," and now, Macromedia is making Flash usable directly with .Net and Java technologies, Gruber said.
Developers can access Web application services such as EJB (Enterprise Java Beans), .Net components, Macromedia ColdFusion components, or SOAP-based Web services through the use of four commands.
"Flash technology brings a rich Windows-like experience inside the context of a browser," Gruber said.
Macromedia Flash Remoting MX for .Net supports ASP.Net pages, ADO.Net objects, DLLs, Assemblies, and Web services. The Java version supports Java Objects, Java Beans, and J2EE resources including Java classes, EJBs, and JMX beans.
Macromedia now can connect to legacy applications that were built in Java but did not support Flash, Gruber said.
Macromedia Flash Remoting MX also includes new capabilities for record set handling and databinding to simplify development.
An early user of Macromedia Flash Routing MX for Java said the product had eliminated a lot of legwork as far as code writing.
"We love it for doing applications that have Flash interfaces. It definitely streamlines a lot of development," said Alon Salant, principal at Carbon Five, a San Francisco developer of custom J2EE applications.
Carbon Five builds a services-based architecture and uses Flash Remoting to assemble a series of business functionalities, Salant said.
Before Flash Remoting, Carbon Five built solutions that sent objects serialized as XML, and then sent them to Flash. Flash Remoting MX for Java "lets you talk to objects between Flash and the server, which is great," said Salant.
Carbon Five did have to build a utility as a translator for passing objects between Flash and the application server, Salant said. But this development was a one-time-only necessity, he added.
Salant also cautioned that developers need to be aware of security concerns.
"What you're essentially doing is you're exposing objects on the server to the outside world," Salant said. "You need to make sure that you actually want to be exposing services," and determine whether there should be limitations on access, he said.
The new products are available on Monday and cost $999 per processor. The functionality also is available natively in Macromedia ColdFusion MX and JRun 4.