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What©s New in Apama Notices For details, see the following topics: • Copyright Copyright © 2013 Progress Software Corporation and/or its subsidiaries or affiliates. All rights reserved. These materials and all Progress® software products are copyrighted and all rights are reserved by Progress Software Corporation. The information in these materials is subject to change without notice, and Progress Software Corporation assumes no responsibility for any errors that may appear therein. The references in these materials to specific platforms supported are subject to change. Apama: What©s New in Apama: Version 5.0.1 3 Notices Apama, Business Empowerment, Business Making Progress, Corticon, Corticon (and design), DataDirect (and design), DataDirect Connect, DataDirect Connect64, DataDirect Technologies, DataDirect XML Converters, DataDirect XQuery, Dynamic Routing Architecture, Empowerment Center, Fathom, Making Software Work Together, OpenEdge, Powered by Progress, PowerTier, Progress, Progress Control Tower, Progress Dynamics, Progress Business Empowerment, Progress Empowerment Center, Progress Empowerment Program, Progress OpenEdge, Progress Profiles, Progress Results, Progress RPM, Progress Software Business Making Progress, Progress Software Developers Network, ProVision, PS Select, RulesCloud, RulesWorld, SequeLink, SpeedScript, Stylus Studio, Technical Empowerment, WebSpeed, Xcalia (and design), and Your Software, Our Technology±Experience the Connection are registered trademarks of Progress Software Corporation or one of its affiliates or subsidiaries in the U.S. and/or other countries. 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See Table of Contents for location of third party acknowledgements within this documentation. 4 Apama: What©s New in Apama: Version 5.0.1 Table of Contents Preface.............................................................................................................7 About this documentation........................................................................................................................7 Documentation roadmap.........................................................................................................................7 Contacting customer support..................................................................................................................9 Chapter 1: What's New in Apama 5.0.1.......................................................11 Linux runtime performance enhancement ............................................................................................11 Changes to the Apama Database Connector........................................................................................12 Integrating Apama Java applications with Corticon...............................................................................12 JMS adapter bundle name changes......................................................................................................13 Improved profiling analysis....................................................................................................................13 5.0 features now documented...............................................................................................................13 Specifying Dashboard Builder options in Apama Studio.......................................................................14 Chapter 2: What's New in Apama 5.0..........................................................17 Changes to EPL features in Apama 5.0................................................................................................18 The com.apama namespace is restricted.............................................................................................21 New Apama client API support for decimal type...................................................................................22 New ADBC adapter features.................................................................................................................22 Packaged Progress database drivers....................................................................................................25 New Web Services client adapter features............................................................................................25 New correlator-integrated JMS messaging features.............................................................................26 Event parser usability/type-safety improvements..................................................................................27 Correlator Deployment Packages..........................................................................................................28 New correlator startup option................................................................................................................29 Changes to engine_send......................................................................................................................29 Deprecated serialize and deserialize operations have been removed..................................................30 Deprecated high availability components removed...............................................................................30 Changes in Apama Studio.....................................................................................................................31 Changes related to dashboards............................................................................................................32 Event Modeler standard block changes................................................................................................35 Appendix A: Third-Party Acknowledgments..............................................37 Apama: What©s New in Apama: Version 5.0.1 5 6 Apama: What©s New in Apama: Version 5.0.1 Preface For details, see the following topics: • About this documentation • Documentation roadmap • Contacting customer support About this documentation What©s New in Apama describes the changes introduced with the Apama 5.0.1 release as well as earlier 5.0 releases. Documentation roadmap On Windows platforms, the specific set of documentation provided with Apama depends on whether you choose the Developer, Server, or User installation option. On UNIX platforms, only the Server option is available. Apama provides documentation in three formats: · HTML viewable in a Web browser · PDF · Eclipse Help (if you select the Apama Developer installation option) Apama: What©s New in Apama: Version 5.0.1 7 Preface On Windows, to access the documentation, select Start > Programs > Progress > Apama 5.0 > Documentation. On UNIX, display the index.html file, which is in the doc directory of your Apama installation directory. The following table describes the PDF documents that are available when you install the Apama Developer option. A subset of these documents is provided with the Server and User options. Title Contents What's New in Apama Describes new features and changes since the previous release. Installing Apama Instructions for installing the Developer, Server, or User Apama installation options. Introduction to Apama Introduction to developing Apama applications, discussions of Apama architecture and concepts, and pointers to sources of information outside the documentation set. Using Progress Developer Instructions for using Progress Developer Studio for Apama (also Studio for Apama known informally as Apama Studio) to create and test Apama projects; write, profile, and debug EPL programs; write Java programs; develop custom blocks; and store, retrieve and play back data. Developing Apama Instructions for using Apama Studio's Event Modeler editor to Applications in Event Modeler develop scenarios. Includes information about using standard functions, standard blocks, and blocks generated from scenarios. Developing Apama Introduces Apama's Event Processing Language (EPL) and Applications in EPL provides user guide type information for how to write EPL programs. EPL is the native interface to the correlator. This document also provides information for using the standard correlator plug-ins. Apama EPL Reference Reference information for EPL: lexical elements, syntax, types, variables, event definitions, expressions, statements. Developing Apama Introduces the Apama Java in-process API and provides user Applications in Java guide type information for how to write Java programs that run on the correlator. Reference information in Javadoc format is also available. Integrating Apama Java Describes how to install Apama and Corticon so they are aware Applications