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XBintegrator6.2beta Released - Enhanced User Experience and New Productivity Features
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.
30-06-2011
XBintegrator Adapter for Magento eCommerce
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.
28-06-2011
New Interface in XBintegrator6: the Application Interface
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>
04-04-2011
New Poller Type: the Simple Poller
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.
04-04-2011
Define Poller Ticks with a Cron-like Syntax
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:
| Field Name |
04-04-2011
Support for Constructor Methods in XBscript2.0
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:
04-04-2011
Password Protect PDF Output of Generated Documents with New <ProtectPdf Instruction
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'" />
04-04-2011
New <MergePdfBackside Instruction to Insert Backsides into a PDF-document
XBintegrator6 marks the introduction of a new instruction called <MergePdfBackside. This instruction allows you to insert the contents of a pdf document after each page of a document and save the resulting merged document.
Example:
<XBscript>
<Main>
<Field name="dir" dft="'c:\\temp'" />
<Field name="docFile" dft="dir+'\\SomeDocument.pdf'" />
<Field name="terms" dft="dir+'\\TermsAndConditions.pdf'" />
04-04-2011
New File Instructions in XBintegrator6
We introduced a couple of new file instructions in XBintegrator6:
- <RemoveFile: to remove a file
- <RemoveDir: to remove a directory
- <TouchFile: to create a file when it doesn’t exists
- <TouchDir: to create a directory when it doesn’t exists
- <ExistsFile: to check whether a file exists
- <ExistsDir: to check whether a directory exists.
04-04-2011
New Instruction <XmlIndent to Pretty-print your XML
A new XBintegrator6 instruction called <XmlIndent allows you to pretty print your xml when desired:
<XBscript>
<Main>
<Set var="someXml" value="'<Root><FirstName>John</FirstName><LastName>Doe</LastName></Root>'" />
<XmlIndent xml="someXml">
<Output var="XB_OUT" />
</XmlIndent>
</Main>
</XBscript>
04-04-2011
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