Traditionally, Invenso has a clear focus on delivering middleware for medium-sized businesses. Recently however, the demand for intelligent integration software in local authorities has massively increased.

To meet that high demand in the public sector, Invenso has launched a dedecated version of XBintegrator and a special commercial model for local authorities.

The release of XBintegrator6.0 and XBscript2.0, last October, was all about creating a solid foundation in terms of functionality. The new 6.2 version, that had its beta release last Monday, will mainly focus on enhancement of the user experience and the developer’s productivity. We are glad to share the highlights of the beta release notes.

Invenso partner Convenso has launched an XBintegrator adapter for Magento, the very popular open source framework to build eCommerce sites, which was recently acquired by eBay. The adapter will allow web shop designers to integrate online shops much more easily with back office applications, such as ERP, CRM, Product and Image Databases, Stock Management systems or Accountancy Software.

Ever since version 3 of XBintegrator, the software has been used by many developers as a flexible development platform for document generation and document post processing flows. For that purpose, a set of out-of-the-box services for document generation have been available as an extra layer on top of the development and integration platform.

In XBintegrator6 we have introduced a new type of interface, the Application Interface. It can be used to integrate directly with your applications. Currently, support for .net and java is provided through a dll and a jar you can use in your programs.

To start, we first need to create an action we can call from an application:

1. Create a script to execute, /Demo/AppIntf/HandleRequest.xb. It wil simply echo what is received as input back to the sender:

<XBscript>
<Main>

XBintegrator6 comes with an additional type of Poller, called the "simple poller". This poller simply executes an action, which may be very useful in combination with the cron-like syntax to execute actions at certain times.

In XBintegrator6, a cron-like syntax can be used to define the ticks of your pollers.

A cron expression is a string comprised of 6 or 7 fields separated by white space. Fields can contain any of the allowed values, along with various combinations of the allowed special characters for that field. The fields are as follows:

An XBscript can have a constructor method now:

<XBscript>
<Data>
<Field name="scriptField" dft="'default value'" />
</Data>

<Constructor>
<Set var="scriptField" value="'constructor value'" />
</Constructor>

<Main>
<Log msg="'scriptField: '+scriptField" />
</Main>
</XBscript>

Produces this logging:

The new instruction <ProtectPdf allows you to password protect the PDF output of a generated document.

Example:

<XBscript>
<Main>

<Field name="dir" dft="'c:\\temp'" />
<Field name="pdf" dft="dir+'\\Result.pdf'" />
<Field name="protectedPdf" dft="dir+'\\ResultProtected.pdf'" />

<Set var="password" value="'p@55w0rd'" />