By: Aad van Schetsen

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The Next Generation Uniface Product Direction
and Strategy Uniface Dutch User Group
Face2Face May 18th, 2006

• By Aad van Schetsen
• Global Sales Director Uniface

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Uniface in 2006 The success continues!
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Uniface 9.1 Whats happening?

• Feedback from the community
• Not happy with Uniface 9.1 content (CU2, User
  Groups, Lab Visits, customer announcements,
  Sales, etc, etc).
• Advanced development is too big a change
• Enterprise applications team development Is an
  IDE style development environment suitable?
• Balance of development vs. deployment features

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Uniface 9.1 What this actually means

• Uniface 9.1 release date has been put back
• Uniface 9.1 content has been refocused
• More resources added to the Uniface development
  team
• New RD projects established for Uniface 9
• Uniface 9 focused (9.1, 9.2 or later delivery)
• Agile development
• Ability to delivery prototype functionality

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New Roadmap
December 2006
April 2004
Beta May September 2006
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Uniface 9 The Functionality

• Uniface 9
• Enhanced Uniface Development Environment
• GUI Enhancements
• Integrated Web Development ()
• Unicode Support
• Web Services ()
• Uniface Mobile ()
• Windows Vista ()
• Java .Net integration ()
• Hot Deployment
• () new content

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Uniface 9.1 Enhanced UDE

• Focus on Usability and Productivity
• Reduce the change in development style
• Maintain the underlying infrastructure
• Sustain Customers development utilities
• Minimal changes to the repository
• Make migration as easy as possible

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Uniface 9.1 Enhanced UDE

• Usability and Productivity Graphical Modeling
• Multiple graphical views of Uniface application
  model
• Printing and print preview
• Zoom-to-fit, zoom-in and zoom-out
• Layout changes will be stored
• Model navigator
• Diagram export (several formats supported incl.
  BMP, PNG and JPEG)
• Existing models can be imported

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Uniface 9.1 Enhanced UDE

• Usability and Productivity Advanced color
  handling
• W3C standards
• RGB colors
• Windows system colors
• New color properties
• Color box widget
• Color handling in Proc
• Color picker available at runtime

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Uniface 9.1 Enhanced UDE

• Enhanced online help/documentation
• Reorganized into task-based topics
• Removed non-Uniface specific information
• Two new tutorials added
• My first Uniface application
• Developing and deploying web applications

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Uniface 9.1 Enhanced UDE

• Usability and Productivity enhancements
• Enhanced XML handling
• Import/export to standard XML
• Zip file compression option support for
  Import/Export, File_load, File_dump, .asn files
• Dual monitor support
• Import/Export/Convert Data available in Proc code

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Uniface 9.1 Enhanced UDE

• Use the grid widget in the UDE
• When you increase the resize of the window, the
  number of occurrences visible on the screen will
  also increase
• Open forms
• Define forms (Model, Entity, Field, etc)
• Signature Editor

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Uniface 9.1 Integrated Web Development

• Integrated development
• Development and customization within the Uniface
  UDE
• Stored in the Uniface repository
• Full migration support including any
  customization
• No more skeleton files (optional)
• Standards support
• Enabling of XHTML compliant generated HTML
• Modern, competitive user interface capabilities
• Mainstream browser support

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Uniface 9.1 Unicode

• Enhanced Language Functionality
• Show multiple languages in single application
• Increased language support
• Traditional Chinese
• Conforming to standards
• Standard implementation for languages
• www.unicode.org - Enhanced Language functionality
• Foundation for future Uniface releases

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Uniface 9.1 GUI Enhancement

• New Widgets
• Calendar widget
• Rich Text Widget
• Progress Bar widget
• Output widget
• Color list widget
• Color box widget

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Uniface 9.1 GUI Enhancement

• Enhance existing Widgets
• Tree widget
• Grid widget
• Drop down (in grid)
• Dynamic Menus
• Build menus using Proc code

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Uniface 9.1 GUI Enhancement

• MS Windows Vista Support
• Look and feel
• Fonts
• Icons
• Aero Glass (translucent window frames)
• Functionality
• Notifications

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Uniface 9 Web Services

• Web Services Enhancements
• Enhance and mature the existing functionality
• Web Services provision (call out) on Unix
• Document data type handling
• XML Schema handling

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Uniface 9 Web Services

• Web Services customer and industry driven
• Web Services provision (call out) on Unix
• Follows the Uniface methodology of Technology
  Independence
• Server side integration
• Web Application Server
• Opens opportunities for Uniface Flow and View
  functionality enhancements

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Uniface 9 Web Services

• Web Services customer and industry driven
• Document data type handling
• Evolution of web services
• Data oriented rather than RPC (service execution)
• XML Schema handling
• complicated data handing
• Required by several Government agencies
• Very common question from customers at CU2004

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Uniface 9.1 Uniface MobileNext Generation
Deployment

• Windows Mobile Support
• Provide Uniface runtime environment on handheld
  devices
• Focus on wireless client-server initially
• Local embedded databases and synchronization
• Expecting initial delivery in Uniface 9.1
  timeframe

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Uniface Product Strategy Planning for Uniface
9.2

• Planned for 12-18 months after Uniface 9.1
• Further UDE Enhancements
• More user interface enhancements
• Web Services
• Hot Deployment
• Application management
• Technical updates
• Maintenance
• User requests
• Based on Uniface 9.1 feedback

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Uniface 9 Beta Program

• Will run in three waves
• Beta 1 Unicode
• Beta 2 GUI enhancements
• Beta 3 UDE enhancements and Integrated Web
  Development
• Beta 4 (Integrated Beta) All functionality in
  Beta
• Please subscribe at Uniface frontline

http//frontline.compuware.com/sw/beta/register/25
201.asp
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Uniface Maintenance and Currency for 2006

• Uniface 8.4.04/M431 service pack
• Delivered March 2006
• Will delivery maintenance, currency and some
  minor enhancements
• Distributed License Manager (DLM4.0)
• Will be used by all Compuware distributed
  products
• Technical support from Lab for Uniface customers
• More customer driven functionality

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Uniface Maintenance and Currency for 2006

• Uniface 8 General Currency Plans
• New DB2 driver Transationtrue, stored
  procedures on all platforms
• NLS Support for ODBC database driver
• SQL Server 2005
• SQL Server 2005 Express
• Solid 4.5
• Alpha OpenVMS 8.2

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Uniface Maintenance and Currency for 2006

• Other work
• Correct the 10k limit
• Support IPv6
• Mouse Wheel functionality
• Web Services time out switch
• Tomcat upgrade (in Web ASV and Flow deployment)
• Minor Uniface Query Tool Enhancements

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Uniface Maintenance and Currency for 2006

• After Uniface 8.4.04
• Uniface 8.4.05 CD refresh and service pack
  planned for Fall 2006
• 64bit Windows (Intel Itanium, AMD Athlon 64)
• QALoad / Uniface - In analysis with the QAload
  and Uniface development teams
• Further Uniface Query Tool enhancements
• HTML 4.01 compliency
• Database support on OpenVMS Itanium
• Integration of Uniface, View and Flow

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CU2006

• Theme The Next Generation
• Focus on technical content
• Key messages
• NextG Development
• Uniface 9, APS, Web Services, Integrated Web
  Development
• NextG Deployment
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft
  Vista, Uniface Mobile
• Conference sessions
• Keynotes (Gartner)
• Breakouts / Technical
• Campground
• Lunch Learn

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CU2006 Time and Place

• November 6th- 8th, 2006
• Palais des Congrès de Strasbourg, France
• International renowned convention centre.
• Centrally located, good connections.
• Impressive facilities for conferences and
  transport.
• Historic city centre.

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