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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 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..........................................................11 Changes to EPL features in Apama 5.0................................................................................................12 The com.apama namespace is restricted.............................................................................................16 New Apama client API support for decimal type...................................................................................16 New ADBC adapter features.................................................................................................................17 Packaged Progress database drivers....................................................................................................19 New Web Services client adapter features............................................................................................20 New correlator-integrated JMS messaging features.............................................................................20 Event parser usability/type-safety improvements..................................................................................22 Correlator Deployment Packages..........................................................................................................23 New correlator startup option................................................................................................................24 Changes to engine_send......................................................................................................................24 Deprecated serialize and deserialize operations have been removed..................................................25 Deprecated high availability components removed...............................................................................25 Changes in Apama Studio.....................................................................................................................26 Changes related to dashboards............................................................................................................26 Event Modeler standard block changes................................................................................................30 Appendix A: Third-Party Acknowledgments..............................................31 Apama: What©s New in Apama: Version 5.0 5 6 Apama: What©s New in Apama: Version 5.0 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 release. 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) On Windows, to access the documentation, select Start > Programs > Progress > Apama 5.0 > Documentation. On UNIX, display the index.htm file, which is in the doc/html directory of your Apama installation directory. Apama: What©s New in Apama: Version 5.0 7 Preface 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. Building Dashboards Describes how to create dashboards, which are the end-user interfaces to running scenario instances and data view items. Dashboard Property Reference information on the properties of the visualization objects Reference for Graphs, Tables, that you can include in your dashboards. and Trends Dashboard Function Reference information on dashboard functions, which allow you Reference to operate on correlator data before you attach it to visualization objects. Developing Adapters