1.11.2008
[Community] | 2.0b8
Release Notes |
- New features
- Remarkably simplified set up (thanks to Enrico Schnepel)
Installing MySQL and "ant" is no longer required
- Extended team functions: collaborative editing, automated email notification
- New application: shared calendars
- Extended email application: reusable distribution lists, several addressing modalities
- Usability improvement: easier navigation in search results
- For application developers: convenient build and configuration management (thanks to Enrico Schnepel)
- For web developers: more flexible HTML generator (thanks to Malte Reißig)
- Crucial bug fixes
- Unicode characters are handled properly
- Web applications also run with Tomcat 6
- The graphical client preserves linebreaks
- Documentation
- New in Wiki: Quickstart
- New in Wiki: User Guide (thanks to Matthias Melcher)
- English and German README files (thanks to Harald Müller)
- License files (thanks to Urs Lerch)
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25.6.2006
[DeepaMehta Corp.] | 2.0b7
Release Notes |
- Color chooser dialog (thanks to Volker Wegert)
- Sending email is simplified
- Simplified installation
- Simplified administration
- Extended HTML generator
- Extended forum application
- Extended Kompetenzstern application
- Some new icons (thanks to Harald Müller)
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7.6.2005
[LinuxTag] | 2.0b6
Release Notes |
- Long menus do scroll (thanks to Boris Gomolka)
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23.2.2005
[KNOPPIX] | 2.0b5
Release Notes |
- Polished web browsing
- More drag and drop
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4.1.2005
[newthinking] | 2.0b4
Release Notes |
- Only bug fixes and internal changes
- Required to run Kiezatlas
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16.11.2004
[SozKult] | 2.0b3
Release Notes |
- Features
- Web applications can synchronize types with a DeepaMehta (master) server
- DeepaMehta server can run in headless mode
- PDF export works also in headless mode
- More flexible property panel layout
- More flexible HTML generator, file uploads
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20.10.2003
[Drag And Drop] | 2.0b2
Release Notes |
- Features
- Drag And Drop Support
- Simplified Installation
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13.6.2003
[Beta Start] | 2.0b1
Release Notes |
- Features
- New example application: Kompetenzstern
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27.5.2003
[Artfacts] | 2.0a18
Release Notes |
- Features
- New interface: "Back" and "Forward" buttons / no tabs anymore / no "Build" mode anymore
- Permission control: only the owner resp. an administrator is allowed to change properties/retype/delete.
- Webpages are displayed in DeepaMehta directly (experimental)
- Email client (experimental)
- Redesigned Chat
- Integrated "Google" search.
- 2nd HTML generator based on XSLT instead of JSP (experimental)
Example application: http://localhost:8080/test/controller
- New application Artfacts
Topic types are Artist, Artwork, Gallery and Exhibition
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29.1.2003
[Sparkasse] | 2.0a17
Release Notes |
- Features
- Multiple Language support
- New standard topic type Phone Number
- Associations have names
- Extended HTML generator
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24.10.2002
[godot] | 2.0a16
Release Notes |
- Applications
- New application: Customer Support
http://localhost:8080/godot/controller
- New application: Message Board
http://localhost:8080/messageboard/controller
- Features
- Extended support for HTML interfaces
- Documentation
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13.8.2002
[SCIDOC] | 2.0a15
Release Notes |
- Features
- Support for HTML interfaces
- Example HTML interface: simple search engine
- Relations between topic types can be modelled interactively
- Support for user roles
- Private Workspaces
- 5 new standard topic types: Address, Email Address, Institution, City, Country
- 2 more property visualization modes: Date Chooser and Time Chooser
- 3 new example workspaces Movies, LDAP and Knowledge Builder are replacing the former "Examples" workspace
- More image properties can be set via filechooser
- Server can run without X11 (but without dynamical imagefile creation)
- DOS batchfiles included
- Updated Applications
- Webcrawler 1.0b7 (improved parsing, backup of original HTML files, more friendly to webservers)
- Documentation
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30.4.2002
[Consolidation] | 2.0a14
Release Notes |
- Features
- GUI improvement
- Long menus are splitted into submenus (alleviating the chance for menus appearing outside the screen)
- More useful context menus by having the frequently used commands at the top
- Exporting a topicmap performs in the background (you can keep working)
- The exported file appears as a document topic and can be opened in place (without going to the filesystem).
Note: This was already implemented for the KS-Editor application and is now standard behavoir for all applications
- No lost geometry along with system crashes anymore
- More server side errors and warnings are displayed in clients message panel
- Faster operations
- Open a topicmap
- Start the client
- Start the server
- DeepaMehta is also available as monolitic application, client & server are integrated
- CM Import/Export (former functionality has never been tested)
- Tested with Mac OS X
- Updated Application
- KS-Editor 1.1 (maintenance)
- Framework extension
- Application service now properly separated from communication method.
- New type handling (always uses on-demand loading, no preloading while server startup anymore)
- Extended commands model (submenus can have submenus)
- Extended directives information flow (allows more extensive user notification)
- New export architecture (export performs in the background)
- New geometry management (geometry is updated on-the-fly)
- Documentation
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29.11.2001
[Steinbeis-Stiftung] | 2.0a13
Iterations |
- Updated Application
- KS-Editor 1.1b9 (CD-Release)
- Framework extension
- Customizable GUI (preferences per user)
- Splitted screen (on/off)
- Show side panel (on/off)
- Show build panel (on/off)
- User can perform all tasks by context menus (the side panel isn't required to be displayed anymore)
- Change property values
- Edit text properties
- Rename topics
- View topic type help
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11.10.2001
[Steinbeis-Stiftung] | 2.0a12
Iterations |
- New Application
- Kompetenzstern Editor 1.0b7
- Features
- Topicmap export as SVG and PDF
- Styled text editing
- Customer installation support
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13.8.2001
[User Interface] | 2.0a11
Iterations |
- Updated Applications
- Revealing the structure of the web
- Offline-Browsing
- Topicmap Import/Export (not yet complete)
- Features
- Lots of GUI improvements (see Iterations for details)
- Extended privileges system (users don't have access to every existing type anymore)
- Extended LDAP support
- Extended sound support (for now only when running as applet)
- Server console window
- Datasources are opened on-demand now. Thus e.g. you can say "Show all movies" or "Show all Kontakte" in every context
- Documentation
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18.5.2001
[Bug Fixes] | 2.0a10
Iterations |
- New Applications
- Corporate Memory Import/Export
- Corporate wide Offline Browsing
- Personal Webtracking
- Subscribable Workgroups
- Updated Applications
- WebBuilder Integration
- Web Search
- Topicmap Import/Export
- Corporate Memory Search
- Chat Rooms
- More Features
- LDAP support. New example application demonstrating Windows 2000 Active Directories
- DMS (Document Management System) consolidated
- New Icons
- Every topic can use an individual icon as appearance
- The workspace and view tabs are showing icons now (can be configured)
- The topicmap publish submenu shows icons
- Topics can have a detail view
- Prototypes of OLAP types: Cube, Slice
- The file chooser remembers the path
- Displaying the topic details of Webpage resp. WebBuilder topics is suppressed
- Signed Applet integrated, via Suns Java 2 Plugin
- Documentation
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21.2.2001
[Berlin intranet test] | 2.0a9
Iterations |
- Features
- WebBuilder compatibility consolidated
- Oracle compatibility consolidated
- Sun Java Plugin compatibility
- Topicmap Import/Export
- New applications
- Global search in Corporate Memory
- Web Search
- Navigation by association type as well as by topic type
- The type submenus are more usable
- Opening maps is speeded up
- Documentation
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3.1.2001
[xMasTree disposed] | 2.0a8
Iterations |
- Main features
- KnowledgeBuilder compatibility (not yet tested)
- Oracle compatibility
(both, as corporte memory as well as corporate datasource)
- Email client
- Workgroup Chat Rooms
- Corporate Calender
- Project Management
- Demo Mode
- Topics can be searched by name (topic containers)
- Corporate wide navigation ("More"-Type-Submenus functional now)
- Publishings are notified to all logged in group members
- Client features
- Uses frame also when running as applet
- Context menu items have icons now
(also commands provided by active topics can have icons)
- Client sends lesser requests to the server
- Navigation by container also in Build-Mode (e.g. searching kernel topics)
- Build-Mode polished
- Server features
- External call interface
- Opens the authentification connection while startup
- Miscellaneous features
- Only Projects can be created in personal workspace now (no Topicmaps anymore, Note: Project is a subtype of Topicmap)
- New standard type: "Project Description" (replaces "Description" property of the "Project" topic type)
- The "More" submenus are sorted now (by topic type name)
- Directory services can be accessed for user account information.
Can be configured by administrators via new "Directory Services" view.
- Navigation through large amounts of related topics by means of container (not complete yet)
- New kernel association type: "project related" (at-projectrelated)
(new kernel association semantic: "SEMANTIC_PROJECT_RELATED")
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29.11.2000
[Corporate
Development
(?)] | 2.0a7
Iterations |
- Features
- New standard topic types: Project and Person
- More container functionality for navigating and searching the corporate memory (not yet complete)
- Access to corporate wide topic types (not yet complete)
- Containers now have "Show Content" and "Group By" commands
- Grouping of container contents now also provided for SQL-datasources
(formerly grouping was only supported for XML-datasources)
- "Movies & Actors" example is functional now (with SQL-datasource)
- Exception handling in active topics / client-side notification
- Changes of Corporate Datasource properties now acting immediately (e.g. "URL", "Driver")
- Changes of DataDefinition properties now acting immediately ("Visualization", "Hidden")
- Client features
- Navigation is now driven by topic type
(the respective number of associated topics is shown in topic context menu)
- Offscreen areas are visualized by arrows on the respective borders (not yet complete)
- Client now switches mouse cursor shapes while dragging operations
- Renamed topicmaps and projects are openend automatically
- Server features
- Now also Oracle can be used as corporate memory (storage layer)
- All topic types, association types, properties and constants are preloaded
- Several instances (with individual corporate memories) can run parallely
- No SMC-2 required anymore
- Architectural features
- Messaging architecture: Client Directives can be send asynchronously
- Background file transfer architecture: asynchronous file transfer requests can be synchronized to perform command chains
- Non-active topics can inherit its activity from active supertypes
- Crucial hooks and directives added resp. extended
- requires server 1.0a7, DB model 2, content 11
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10.10.2000
[chec's base] | 2.0a6 |
base architecture for searching in corporate memory
show/hide works again
moving clusters works again
deleting associations along with topics works again
active topics can react upon being evoked (new "evoked" hook)
active topics can react upon being renamed (new "nameChanged" hook)
active topics can react upon changing its topic data (new "dataChanged" hook)
topics inherit their appearance
applications and icons can be choosed by filechooser-dialog
automatic uploading of icons (corporate icon repository)
opening "Icon" topics with graphics application, launching "Application" topics
views can have individual background color
views can't be opened twice anymore
once a user resp. a workgroup is renamed the corresponding workspace is renamed too
error handling/client side notification improved
further GUI improvement
server does DB content compatibility check
sourcecode polished, naming consolidated, extensive comments
"Movies" example included
requires server 1.0a6, DB model 2, content 6
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| 4.9.2000 | 2.0a5 |
document management, corporate file repository, MIME-configuration
asynchronous messaging
active topics can add buttons to the clients data editor (new "formField" hook)
active topics can react upon switching the between normal and design viewmode (new "viewmodeChanged" hook)
more manipulations in clients design mode acting immediately (type topics are reinited)
client has message panel
clients user interface makes use of audio
client runs as application again
requires server 1.0a5, DB model 2
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| 16.8.2000 | 2.0a4 |
versioning base architecture (not yet activated)
server does DB model compatibility check
installation instructions
requires server 1.0a4, DB model 2
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| 20.7.2000 | 2.0a3 |
topicmap commands appearing also in graph context menu
publish into corporate
login feedback, login thread
sourcecode polished, naming consolidated, extensive comments
requires server 1.0a3, DB model 1
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| 14.7.2000 | 2.0a2 |
publishing
user management
active topics can add commands to topic context menu
closing views (both, interactively and caused by server)
directed edges visualized
client does server compatibility check
requires server 1.0a2, DB model 1 |
| 6.7.2000 | 2.0a1 |
first implementation of distributed software architecture
groupware GUI
funcionality of prototype almost provided, restrictions
- the server can't cause the client to disable topic data editor fields (pending)
- the server can't cause the client to add GUI components to the topic data editor (partly fixed in 2.0a5)
- associations are not deleted along with topics (fixed in 2.0a6)
- hide topic/hide association/hide all/show all context menu items doesn't work (fixed in 2.0a6)
- moving topic clusters not possible (fixed in 2.0a6)
- container lables do not appear (pending)
- the client doesn't run as application anymore (fixed in 2.0a5)
requires server 1.0a1, DB model 1
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4.5.2000
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documentation
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17.4.2000
[prototype freezed] | 1.0a8 |
navigation/manipulation by context menus
appearance configuration
GUI configuration
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12.4.2000
[Siemens] | 1.0a7 | SQL datasource (no grouping yet) |
| 3.4.2000 | 1.0a6 | auto grouping, webpage topic |
29.3.2000
[promised prototype] | 1.0a5 | active topics, container, XML datasource |
| 16.3.2000 | 1.0a4 | open several maps, create map |
| 14.3.2000 | 1.0a3 | design mode |
9.3.2000
[Degussa] | 1.0a2 | early design mode |
| 3.3.2000 | 1.0a1 | first topic map editor |
| 23.2.2000 | | project begin |