Release Plan and Objectives
TopBraid Suite 3.6 in addition to introducing a number of enhancements to TopBraid products focuses on reliability and extending popular features that are core to TopBraid enterprise-level capabilities while proactively identifying and removing duplicate and superfluous features. This direction — honing and adding increasing robustness to core capabilities — reflects the growing maturity of TopBraid products driven by their increasing use in supporting enterprise solutions.
Recent previous Releases
TBS 3.6 release follows on release 3.5, which was made available May 31, 2011, and the maintenance releases for 3.5; the most recent maintenance release is 3.5.4
Key features
TopBraid Platform
- Improved stability of Jena TDB and SDB databases in TopBraid.
- Large updates for all databases, they are now significantly faster.
- Improved server performance, particularly concerning multiuser issues — all products are positively impacted, particularly TopBraid Enterprise Vocabulary Net and TopBraid Live.
- Upgraded Sesame 2 adapter from 2.4.0 to 2.6.2.
TopBraid Enterprise Vocabulary Net (EVN)
- New lightweight optional add-on module for publishing vocabularies in HTML (no Flex) for browsing and searching (based on requirements from a number of customers); using this module an unlimited number of viewers can access and browse any production vocabulary and use search to find and view
specific terms. - Export of taxonomies as MS SharePoint file.
- New vocabulary example using IPTC News codes from http://www.iptc.org/site/NewsCodes/.
- SPARQL Query form included in the EVN edit and browse applications.
- Also see general improvements for TBE.
TopBraid Live (TBL)
- Enhancement to TopBraid SPARQL endpoint to support all the official parameters and result types.
SPARQL Rules (SPIN)
- Improvements and bug fixes to SPIN OWL 2 RL rule base.
SPARQL Web Pages (SWP)
- Several incremental enhancements for SWP 1.1, see http://uispin.org/ui.html#new-1.1 for details.
- Experimental SWP applications components library for trees, grids, forms, etc. For more information see
SWP Application Components.
TopBraid Composer
- Improved wizard for connecting to relational databases allows selection of tables and columns.
- Improved XML Schema import, see blog entry http://topquadrantblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/living-in-xml-and-owl-world.html for additional information.
- Ability to change fonts for the individual views.
- Pan in and pan out for diagrams.
- Class diagrams are now editable
- Reorganized Help for easier navigation, added several new sections.
TopBraid Ensemble (TBE)
- New A-Z display in the Grid component.
- Cell values in the Grid component can now be used as links.
- Right click support for invoking SPARQLMotion scripts.
- Ability to specify which GRAPH to query for components
that dynamically generate SPARQL queries. - Ability to specify sort order when generating a query from the Search Form.
- Switch from Yahoo! Maps API to MapQuest API.
- Improved multi-lingual support.
- Improved auto-complete functionality using in-memory indexes rather than index files.
Change Log
changes-3.6.1.txt
changes-3.6.0.txt
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