Release Notes DPT V2R0

Release Notes for DPT Version 2.0

Released: 1st February 2007


Contents


Release Summary

Highlights

At-a-glance these are the most important new features. Full details and links to the relevant manual pages are given further down.

Special note: Web Server

You can now use DPT to build fully-functional web sites, with dynamic content created in User Language, in a very similar way to Janus Web on Model 204. It opens up whole new user interface possibilities compared to 3270, and makes much more exciting applications possible for both M204 hobbyists (e.g. take your local sports club online - see Stirling Cricket Club) and for professionals (set up a departmental intranet site, say). It's also a great way to acquire some new relevant developer skills in today's web-oriented world.

The web server is easy to configure and use, but it's somewhat more than just a handful of new statements and $functions, so it has its own manual - the new DPT Web Server Admin and Programming Guide.


User Language


Commands


Front End


Other miscellaneous enhancements, and bug fixes

System management

Version 1.x stuff

New bug fixes


Documentation

The set now includes a whole new document describing the configuration and programming of the web server, with appropriate hyperlinks to and from the rest of the documentation.

Apart from that it's the same scheme as before, where the complete documentation is browsable on the website and also included in the download.


Demo Code and Utilities

The demo application that you download now contains a simple web site, illustrating many of the ideas described in the web programming guide.