Development

The following updates have been made to the Appbuilder dependency management.

Appbuilder has been updated to resolve/update against the applications which are in the list of applications open in the Appbuilder (in addition to applications in the local repository), rather than resolving against applications which are in peer folders.  We have had complaints that resolving against [...]

A while back I wrote a tutorial that shows how to leverage sMash’s REST to SOAP extension. The tutorial shows how, with this extension, you can integrate legacy web service applications (in this case deployed on the WebSphere Application Server) into your sMash application via a RESTful facade.
If you do take a look, there’s one [...]

Recently we have had a number of queries about poor performance of sMash applications which have turned out to be caused by starting the applications from App Builder.
App Builder is intended as a development tool and as such it always starts applications in debug mode. This has a fairly dramatic effect on the performance [...]

We have recently added the last of the PHP functions needed to run a PHP Facebook platform application on Project Zero. To get started writing my own Facebook application I simply followed these steps:

Download the latest Project Zero development driver which now has all the support you need (use the Monza release or later). You [...]

Recently, we’ve provided the Optimistic Concurrency Control (OCC) support on ZRM . Currently this feature is supported on ZRM update operation for both ZRM model API and HTTP REST API (both Json and Atom format). This work is based on the new ZRM refactor which introduces a new module zero.resource.core so that you can use [...]

We had about 25 people attend the RTP WebSphere Users Group meeting last night.  The first 30 minutes belonged to Andrew Spyker of the WAS team, who gave a presentation on new XML support being delivered in the upcoming WAS v7 XML Feature Pack, along with one of the youtube videos showing how quick, easy and [...]

A new version of IBM Application Creator for Business Users has been uploaded to the ProjectZero web site.
This new version (1.0.1.0) contains the following improvements:

Forms can now have files attached to them, by adding an Attachment field to the form. The file is stored in a database on the server and is deleted when the [...]

The first fix pack for 1.1.1 has been published to both the projectzero.org and official sMash GA repositories.
The module version numbers are 1.1.1.1.nnnnn. Refer to the 1.1.1.1 wiki page for the list of bugs addressed and other information pertaining to this fix pack. Read more about modules in the dependency management section of the developer’s [...]

We’re very happy to announce that Monza (the latest sMash development driver) now has support for the PHP spl_autoload functions.
We are currently working our way through the PHP SPL classes in no particular order so
if you have any comments about these latest functions, or requests for us to support particular functions, it would be great [...]

Just a quick post to note that Monza (the latest sMash development driver) is now successfully running the well known content management system (CMS) Joomla. You may take a look at our Development Wiki for installation instructions. You can also find a full list of PHP applications we can successfully run here.  If you [...]