This document provides an overview of Uniface 10 including: - The goals driving Uniface 10 including improved productivity, simple migration, and continual improvement. - Key concepts in Uniface 10 like modeled objects and templates, and compiled module inspectors. - New features in Uniface 10 like projects, snippets, an integrated form painter, and navigation enhancements. - Additional details on security, performance, operating system support, databases, and development functionality improvements. - Considerations for planning including continual improvement through regular releases and ending support for Uniface 9 in December 2020.

1. Uniface 10
18 November 2019
David Akerman
Subject Matter Expert

2. Agenda
Uniface 10 journey
Concepts
What’s new?
Planning considerations
Let’s see it in action.

3. The Journey

4. Uniface 10
Our Drivers
•Productivity
•Simple migration
•Finalized repository
•Implement wishes
•Continual improvement
•Open API’s and plugins
•Accessibility & familiarity
•Expand userbase

5. Releases
•Web Edition
•Enterprise Edition
•Community Edition

6. The Change Curve
•Recognise
•Experiment
•Learn
•Improve

7. Concepts

8. Modeled Objects & Templates
Object
Template
Modeled
Object
DERIVED
(inheritance)
COPIED
(no inheritance)
ABSTRACTION
Object

9. ProcScript Containers
Module based in
Uniface 10
Container based in
Uniface 9

10. Compiled Modules Inspector

11. What’s New?

12. Projects
• Collection of development object references
o Components
o Entities
o Libraries
o Other Projects
• Create objects
• Compile
• Export and Import
o With or without objects

13. Snippets
A collection of named snippets
of code organized in libraries.
Standard snippets are included
in: unifacemiscutemplates.xml

14. Integrated Form Painter
• Desktop forms integrated
• Multiselect property support

15. Navigation Enhancements
• Projects replace Shortcuts
• Tabbed worksheets
• Object URIs
• Smart Suggestions
• Navigate from canvas to code
• Clickable errors and warnings
• Create new object from
alternative worksheets
• Multi-select

16. Load definitions
• MS SQL
• Oracle
• PostgreSQL

17. Create table utility
• Uniface repository
• Customer tables
• Uses driver settings
• Command line
/genSql {/meta} createTable entity.model database {fileName}
e.g.
• ide.exe /gensql /meta createtable *.dict mss
• ide.exe /gensql createtable country.acmecust ora ora-country.sql

18. Additional menu?
• Custom worksheets
• Custom menus

19. Security & Performance
• TLS
• C++ runtime
• Signed executables
• Public/Partner web
• Public soap

20. Currency
Operating Systems
• Windows Server 2019
• IBM iSeries
DBMS
• SQL Server 2017
• Oracle 18c
• PostgreSQL 10/11
Other
• Tomcat 8.5.30
• OpenJDK 8 replaces Oracle JRE 8
• Support for IPv6 in DLM 9.2

21. Development Functionality
IDE Improvements
•New Editors
•Search & Replace (inc. Regex)
•More Smart Suggestions
ProcScript
• undeclare trigger|operation|entry module
Runtime
•Desktop: Popup form dynamic position
•DSP: field.getBoundElement()

22. Planning Considerations

23. Continual Improvement
Release value as soon as ready
• Every 2 weeks
• Currency
• Bug Fixes
• Functionality
o IDE improvements
o Wishes
o Security

24. Planning
• Uniface 9 support ends
December 2020
• Uniface runtime, IDF &
IDE divergence

25. Let’s Take a Look

26. Thank you
uniface.com