New features in WebSphere sMash Core for Monaco

The Monaco milestone for WebSphere sMash was primarily focused on increasing the stability and robustness of the technology. To meet this goal there were no major enhancements planned for the Core engine in this milestone. Several bugs were resolved and a number of APIs were tweaked in preparation for the GA of WebSphere sMash.

Core - The core WebSphere sMash platform and programming model.

The WebSphere sMash programming model has had no new features in Monaco. The migration guide contains some of the minor updates that were introduced for accessing data in the Global Context.

Dojo

The Monaco milestone includes the 1.1 update to the Dojo Toolkit.

Dojo Widgets

The ZRM Data store has support for more Dojo widgets such as ComboBox and FilteringSelect. We have also introduce a Rest Data store for integrating with standard REST resource handlers in WebSphere sMash.

Client side mashup programming model

It is now possible to build client side mashups through secure client-side aggregation of content through the Open AJAX hub provider (secure mashup).

Command-Line Interface

• Stand-alone packages ("zero package -standalone") now include the WebSphere sMash command-line interface. Thus, the only pre-requisite for a stand-alone package is a JDK.
• The CLI now supports subcommands (e.g., "zero modulegroup_create ..." is now "zero modulegroup create ...").

Installer

The installer is now available only for the licensed product.

Samples

Open Ajax Demo

We have introduced a sample WebSphere sMash application that leverages the Open Ajax Hub provider introduced in Monaco to illustrate client side aggregation of data from two WebSphere sMash applications.